By Karen Kelly | Special to the Times Vedette
The MJB Library and Friends of the Guthrie Center Library would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the Third Annual Fundraising Golf Tournament. Thanks to the community’s support, the Friends of the Guthrie Center Library were able to pay for the replacement of the drinking fountain in the library with a fountain that also features a water bottle filler.
Guthrie County State Bank Team, consisting of Brandon Monaghan, Keith Ketcham and Matt Hawkins, secured first place.
Thanks also to the following individual sponsors of the golf event: Cricket’s Garden; The Flanery Farms (Dennis Flanery); Mary Leighty. And our volunteers from the Friends of the Guthrie Center Library Board, Vicki Crannell, Mary Leighty, Debbie Menning, Diane Flanery, Library Director Jerri Hawkins, and Guthrie Center Golf Course employees, and Rod Robson.
The Rumelhart, Bast and Kent Team, made up of Rod Rumelhart, Kelly Bast and Doug Kent, placed second. Additionally, Rod Rumelhart won the “Closest to the Pin” award on Hole 2, while Shane Fuller won the “Longest Putt” award on Hole 7.
We are heading into our final week of Summer Reading Program, but remember, you can “Level Up at the Library” all year long. On Wednesday, June 25, the Guthrie County ISU Extension Office will have a program for all ages at 2 p.m. in the Taylor Meeting Room.
Those who are registered for the summer reading program need to turn in all reading logs and activity sheets by the close of the library on Thursday, June 26 to be included in the prize drawings.
Our summer reading program finale will be on Friday, June 27 at noon. HomeTown Foods in Guthrie Center will be providing burgers, and we will draw for prizes for the reading program participants.
These enthusiastic volunteers were part of the bubble show.
Dino Ranger Anthony demonstrated how to make a volcano erupt using baking soda, vinegar and dinosaur blood.
Dino Ranger Anthony took a selfie with the group as they showed off their three-finger dino claws.
After the program, everyone got to pose with the stars of the show.
Anne Riordan with the Iowa DNR explains the activity to the kids who attended her summer reading program last Thursday.
Piper seems to be wondering what she has gotten herself into as she is swallowed by a giant balloon.
Library Director Jerri Hawkins seems a little apprehensive about holding a propane filled bubble in for the bubble master to light.
The propane bubble trick worked. Jerri held a flaming bubble for just a split second.
Emmerich is excited to help with the helium bubble trick.
Dino Ranger Anthony, owner of Chomp, Stomp, and Roar, presented a dinosaur program for the summer reading program at the MJB Library.
Dinosaur fans were sprayed with “Dinosaur slobber,” which looks a lot like bubbles.
Our friend from Absolute Science returned to perform a trick bubble show for our summer reading program.
Kids at the MJB Library dinosaur program got a chance to feed a fish to Dino Ranger Anthony’s pet Spinosaurus.
Competing in the Animal Olympics was part of Anne Riordan’s summer reading program at the MJB Library last week.
Animal Olympics was a fun and exciting program for summer reading participants.