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Ruth Pratt Honored by Governor for Arts Support |
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Written by David Townsend
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Thursday, 30 September 2010 14:01 |
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| Ruth Pratt, center, Executive Director of the Coeur d'Alene Public Library Foundation, musician, and patron of the arts, was recognized Sept. 23 in Boise with a Governor's Award in the Arts. The silver medallion honored her for "Support of the Arts." Pictured with her and Idaho Gov. Butch Otter following the ceremony are, from left, Nancy Flagan, Roberta Larsen, First Lady Lori Otter, Kelly Lattin, Rachel Dodge, and Mary Sanderson. |
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Winton Readers Win Summer Reading Trophy |
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Written by David Townsend
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Friday, 24 September 2010 15:12 |
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Children who spend part of their summers reading return to school in the fall better equipped to learn. The kids at Winton Elementary demonstrated that they are readers by being the first annual winners of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library Summer Reading Traveling Trophy.
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Winton Elementary students Trevor Carpenter and Nathan Ralston hold the Coeur d’Alene Public Library Summer Reading Traveling Trophy with Susan Thorpe, Youth Supervisor for the public library, left, and Beth Dane, Winton School Librarian. Trevor and Nathan were two of 59 students from Winton who participated in Summer Reading.
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According to Susan Thorpe, Youth Supervisor, children visiting the library and participating in Summer Reading not only had the opportunity to win prizes, but also got to vote for their school on each visit. According to the ballots, 59 students from Winton visited the library 187 times and earned the right to display the trophy in their school library until next summer.
Winton School Librarian Beth Dane told her students at an assembly Friday, “Winton is a school of readers.”
She noted that the students and their families are “100 percent responsible for the new books we were able to add to the library last year – 317 books … filling up our library to a total of 9,326 books.”
She said in the past year students checked out 13,000 books and that students in third, fourth and fifth grades passed 2,989 Accelerated Reading tests – for a total of 18,151, 970 words. Dane gave special recognition to student Sarena Kaschmitter for reading more than one million words on her own.
News about the library and other city departments is also available on the City of Coeur d’Alene news blog: cdacity.blogspot.com.
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Youth Members Bring Different Perspective to Board |
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Written by David Townsend
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:14 |
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Emily Burnham, left, and Kaye Thornbrugh, youth member of the Coeur d'Alene Public Library Board of Trustees.
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The Board of Trustees for the Coeur d’Alene Public Library meets the fourth Wednesday of each month. Its voting members bring together a wide range of experience: education, the law, community activism, politics, etc. But the perspective is that of adults.
But two other members – nonvoting though they are – provide a slightly different point of view. Emily Burnham and Kaye Thornbrugh are the Library Board’s youth members. Both began terms on the board in 2009 and both will be seniors at Coeur d’Alene High School this year.
They were recently asked to respond to a questionnaire and these are their responses.
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