Lambton Library from Reading Challenge

Lambton has a slew of initiatives Underway to get People Reading This Winter.

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The Annual Winter Reading Challenge that continues UNTIL MARCH 16 Asks Kids, Teens, and Adults to Read and Log Their Reading the Beanstack App.

Progress Earns Badges and A Shot at Prizes, Including Gift Cards and Educational Toys, County Officials Said.

Last Year 419 Participants – Kids and Teens – Read More Than 13,000 Books, Said Heather Tulloch, Spokesperson for the Lambton Library Program.

This year, Those Numbers Could Grow As the Library System Expands The Program To include Adults, She Said.

“We have Kind of Pushing People to Engage in Those Bookish Delights, But also Kind of Challenging the Reading that they doing as well,” She Said, Refrming to A Challenged Works List that included books, magazines and newspapers that have faced challenges and bans.

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That aspect of the Initiative is about Celebrating Intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read, She Said.

A Series of Author Talks are also part of the program this year, included Activist and Author Gabriel Allahdua at the Sarnia Library theater Feb. 28, 6:30 am to 8:30 pm, she Said.

Allahdua, Author of Harvestiting Freedom: The Life of A Migrant Worker in Canada Will Be Talking About Migrant Workers and Answering Questions, Tulloch Said.

About 80 Remained as of Friday, she Said.

Adding Adults to the Winter Reading Program – The Library’s Summer Reading Program expanded to include adults in 2023 – also marks an end of the One Book Lambton Program, She Said.

The One Book Lambton Initiative Started in 2019, Aimed at Starting Community Conversations While Engaging Readers in Number of Book-Related Events and Activities.

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“But last year, we kind of Saw the impact that the (Winter Reading) Challenge had in Terms of Committee,” and opted to expand it and replace one book Lambton, Tulloch Said.

Reading to Others COUNTES TO, Officials NODED.

Competiently A Clash of the Classrooms Initiative in the Local School Systems is back, Feb. 3-March 7, Tulloch Said.

Schools that read the most minutes per capita-Tracked through the beanstack app-Get Cash for Libraries and/Or Learning Commons Investment, and Classrooms that log the Most-Read Minutes Overall Get Pizza Parties.

Last Year was also the First Year for Clash Cup Trophies. One Goes to the Top Reading Elementary School in Eith Lambton or Chatham-Kent, and the other to the top-feeding secondary school in eITher Lambton or Chatham-Kent.

Chatham-Kent Took Both Cups in 2024, Tulloch Said.

Hopes are Lambton Steps It Up This Year, She Said.

“It’s a great challenge because it is all our schools across the Two Regions,” She Said.

Details on the Clash and Challenge Programs are available at lclibrary.ca.

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