NORWAY – Children, parents, grandparents and volunteers celebrated the end of the 2002 Summer Reading Program at the Norway Memorial Library on Aug. 15. Family Reading Night is a night to celebrate the achievements that the children have made over the summer. The program included four children reading from the books, “Talking Walls” and “Talking Walls the Stories Continue,” which were the theme for this year’s program.

Deleah Foster from South Paris read about the walls is Cuzco, Peru; Kalynn Bangs from South Paris read about the Ndebele’s beautiful colored houses, Kelsey Doney from Oxford read about Wat Po, the open university in Thailand, Jalise Cotton from Norway read about the Berlin Wall in Germany.

A total of 125 children signed up for the program. In the Read to Me program, for children up to age 6, 50 children signed up and 42 completed the required 40 books. The Tuesday and Thursday program, for children, first to sixth grade, had 64 children that signed up and 35 completed the required 33 hours. This year children who were 9 to 12 years old participated in a Book Discussron Reading and Activity Program. There were 15 children who signed up for the program and nine completed the 12 required books.

Children who participated in the program got a certificate of achievement, a Subway gift certificate and a book. Those children who completed the required reading got a T-shirt in addition to the certificates.

The library had many volunteers provide learning opportunities for the children and to give the children a taste of food from around the world. Sue Bradbury and Hillary Ware volunteered the week the children were learning about Peru. Ed Gabrielsen came to the library during the week the children were learning about Tibet, Kate Herlihy donated Thai food the week the children were learning about Thailand, Jen Otterson volunteered when the youths were learning about Japan, Pat Laidler, who summers in Waterford, volunteered in the book discussion group, Laura Courcy, Rupali Gaindh, Aurora. Lenz-Wattson and Crystal Giasson helped in the Tuesday and Thursday program.