After opening remarks from Tracy Carey, Director of Public Services for the Centre County Library and Nick Lingenfelter, Regional VP Market Manager of First National Bank, author Tawni O’Dell was introduced.
Ms O’Dell is the author of four books including Back Roads, an Oprah Book Club pick. In her encouraging words to the young writers she said that the important thing about being a human, and not a cow, is that we have a written language.
As Katie Nicholson, Youth Services Librarian, and Laura Sarge, Outreach Services Coordinator, announced the winners, a portion of each winner’s story or poem was read. The titles ranged from the first grade winner’s “Reggie The Firefighting Snake” to “The Legend”, the first place winner for sixth grade.
First grade winners included Cecilia Mazzocco, Miles Brooks, Emma Homan, Davis Corman, and Vivienne Booz.Second grade finalists were Blaine Appleyard, Nicholas J. Mitchell, Ty Kroell, and Lilly Christopher.
Third grade winners were Annelise King, Kathryn Leonon, Sutton Thompson, Caitlyn Ripka, and Sunni Rice.
In fifth grade Megan Irwin, Octavio Mallare, MacKenzie Jodrie, Erica Hillard, and Caroline Helms were the winners.
Max Theuer, Sam Goodwin, Isabel Martin, Abegail Bruni, and Abigail Martin were the sixth grade finalists.
Melanie Phillips, Development Officer of the Centre County Library, closed with a thank you to all of the corporate sponsors and with a reminder to all of the students that she expected to see each of them in the Library’s Summer Reading Program. |
| Melanie Phillips, Development Officer, Centre County Library |
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