2021 Summer Reading Tails and Tales

Caleb and Lucas Trent Photo submitted
Special to the Herald-News
The Metcalfe County Public Library has had a busy summer. Here a few statistics from our folks at the library.
There were 554 craft to go bags picked-up by patrons.
Cooking with the Cat included 150 participants.
Checkers Library TV had 680 participants.
The ABC Circus had 20 participating.
123 people took part in Kick-Off events.
SRP Finals had 50 people participating.
There were 242 Facebook live drawings.
The MCPL Summer Reading Program entitled ‘Tails and Tales’ had 152 participants with 130 of those being children (11 and under) and 22 teens. In total, there were 2,227 books read and that equaled out to 7,037,320 minutes of time spent reading, according to library calculations.
The reading prize winners by age category were:
Ages 0 – 2
Critt London
Mason Clemmons
Ella Mae Kilgore
Allie Plott
Harlan Wilson
Caleb Trent
Ramsey Schambon
Ages 3 – 5
Ruby Garrett
Olivia Cloyd
Riley Plott
Cash Baker
Adalyn Neal
Jencey Woosley
McKinlee White
Ages 6 – 8
Sarah Franklin
Rhett Schambon
Lucas Trent
Harmony Kilgore
Tymber Garrett
Ava Caffee
Tucker Garrett
Ages 9 – 11
Liberty Phelps
Loryn Logsdon
Clay Shive
Daniel Franklin
Teens
Trinity Kilgore
Emmaline Phelps
Chase Cloyd
The Checkers Library TV Trivia question winner was Allie Plott who got a $50 Visa Gift Card and the reading log winner was Caleb Trent who got $25 of Metcalfe Money.

Emmaline and Liberty Phelps Photo submitted

Harmony Kilgore Photo submitted

Ella Kilgore Photo submitted

Trinity Kilgore Photo submitted