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Celebrate art and stories this summer with the library
Celebrate art and stories with the library this summer in honor of the 2025 Summer Reading Program theme“ Color Our World.”
Children and teens can earn rewards and incentives by completing reading challenges and activities and attending programs. For every five hours of reading or being read to, an entry is earned for a grand prize. A few of the youth grand prizes include an art easel with accessories and a 3D coloring puzzle set for children and an iPad prize opportunity for teens.
For adults, every five checkouts will earn an entry for a grand prize. A checkout is any use of your library card, so this includes books, magazines, movies, music, digital resources, yard games, activity kits and more. Prizes for adults this year include a $ 50 Amazon gift card, $ 50
Marathon gift card and $ 50 Walmart gift card.
The library would like to thank community businesses, individuals and organizations for their generous support of the Summer Reading Program. Crafts, activities, programs, reading incentives and prizes are provided entirely by community members. The list of donors can be found at the library and on the library’ s website.
The adult summer checkout challenge began May 29 and will end July 26. To participate, pick up a checkout challenge at the Coshocton County District Library, West Lafayette Branch Library or Bookmobile or log your checkouts digitally
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Celebrate art and stories with the library this summer in honor of the 2025 Summer Reading Program theme“ Color Our World.”
through the Beanstack Tracker app.
For inspiration to start
Students slip into summer
the challenge, check out the following books and digital resources featuring art and creativity. Each title is available to borrow through the Coshocton County Library System or Libby app.
Fiction
—“ The Collector” by Daniel Silva: A legendary art restorer and spy joins forces with a brilliant master-thief to track down the world’ s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
—“ The Lioness of Boston” by Emily Franklin: This historical fiction novel features the story of the first woman to open a museum in the United States, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and her mission to make art accessible to the public.
—“ The Metropolitan Affair” by Jocelyn Green: With a notorious forger preying on New York’ s high society, a curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art is just the expert needed to track down the criminal.
Nonfiction
—“ Share Your Joy” by Sarah J. Gardner: Learn how to create mixed-media art and mail handmade postcards, note cards and other items to share joy with others.
—“ Art Matters” by Neil Gaiman: Drawn from Gaiman’ s trove of published speeches, poems and creative manifestos, this book explores how reading, imagining and creating can transform the world.—“ Drawing Digital” by Lisa Bardot: Learn how to draw digitally and get the most use out of your tablet with this book of helpful tips, creative inspiration and step-by-step drawing projects.
To find book recommendations for all ages, visit www. coshoctonlibrary. org / srp2025.
Digital resources
— The CreativeBug BingePass on Hoopla offers free access to thousands of online arts and crafts classes for every skill level. Video classes are taught by top artists, and downloadable resources teach how to crochet, knit, paint, draw, sew, quilt and more. Learn more at www. hoopladigital. com / browse / binge.
— The EBSCO database Hobbies & Crafts Source contains thousands of articles from top hobby and craft magazines and books, as well as recipes, how-to videos and hobby profiles. Access it through the Ohio Web Library on the library’ s website.
Myer’ s Country Diner
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105 E. Main Street West Lafayette
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Mon-Fri 7am-3pm; Sat 7am-1pm Closed Sunday
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Sacred Heart students celebrated the end of the year with several activities. They walked to Earl’ s for ice cream, had their annual egg drop contest, went head to head with staff in a kickball tournament and participated in the annual Slip‘ n Slide Day.
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Homemade Pie!
Cricket’ s Famous Sausage Gravy & Biscuits- Available Friday & Saturday Only