Plainfield Library Thanks Summer Reading Participants and Supporters

Congratulations to the almost 4,000 people of all ages who participated in the Plainfield Public Library's 2016 Summer Reading Program! We hope you enjoyed Reading for the Win!

Some fun facts about this year's program:

• 231 children read every one of the 62 days of the summer reading program
• 598 teens read 1,098,225 pages
• 1307 children and adults attended 37 programs for kids and families
• Adult participants read close to 1.5 million pages (1,475,896)
• Fourteen adult participants read and logged more than 10,000 pages
• The oldest participant in the adult reading program was 87 and the youngest 18, demonstrating this really is an all ages program

Special thanks to the Friends of the Plainfield Library for their generous donation of $6,000.00 that went towards the purchase of prizes for the kids' prize shop. And a big thank you to Kona Ice North Plainfield for partnering with the Library this summer. Kona Ice gave out over 150 kiddie cups of shaved ice treats for FREE to kids who showed their certificate of completion for the Summer Reading Program. Owners Brad and Kristin Schmidt are committed to giving back to their community so they also donated 20% of the proceeds from their 11 visits to the Library over the course of the program, resulting in $336.00. These proceeds will help fund programs for families in the coming year. Kudos to our community's readers and kudos to our partners, the Friends of the Library and Kona Ice North Plainfield!