To the Editor:

The Plumb Library’s Every Hero Has a Story Summer Program will officially conclude with a September Rochester Memorial School all school meeting to recognize student participation! Our goal this summer was to celebrate all types of heroes, while also discovering the hero within each of us. Our “Hero Training Camp” provided each hero-in-training, from pre-readers to adults, weekly challenges designed to exercise minds, bodies and hearts. This year, as a group, we had almost 200 heroes in training complete 3,278 challenges within a nine week period. Over 600 heroes answered our call and attended 60 diverse programs!

In order for the program to be such a success, many Home Town Heroes need to be acknowledged. First, the families who embrace the Summer Library Program, and participate as much as they can. Some families attended almost every program offered! Second are the educators who support the program, promote it, and collaborate with us! Third, are the individuals who donated their time to provide kids activities: Tracy Eldridge, Jeff and Lauren Eldridge, police officers Nordahl, Hicks and Crook, Gordon Helme, Mary Lou Nicholson, Tina Rood, Lorraine Thompson, Matt Cordeiro, Marshall Meyer, Neil Flynn and the Junior Friends of Plumb Library; Allison, Brenna, Bridget, Carey, Emma, Ethan, Haley, Kaci, Lindsey, Hannah and Rebecca.

Special kudos to the kids who participated in our community services challenges like contributing to the Lions Club Pennies for Sight program, creating flannel pillows and delivering them to Sippican Health Care, planting a memorial garden, and helping the library with clubs and program promotion!

Without our Super Hero Supporters, we would not have been able to provide families with an online logging system,  weekly clubs, performers, workshops, prizes, and awards. These super heroes are: the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Massachusetts Library Services, Boston Bruins, Friends of Plumb Library, Rochester Lions Club, Rochester Cultural Council, Rockland Trust, MIIA, Rochester Memorial School PTO, First Congregational Church, Joaquim Barros, CPA, Plumb Market and Utz Quality Foods, Kool Kone, Hair and Body Solutions, Studio 105, Matt’s Blackboard, Captain Bonney’s Creamery, the Rood Family, No Kidding, Papa Gino’s Wareham, Encor Entertainment and DJ Howie.

Hope you join us next summer!

Sincerely,

Lisa Fuller,

Youth Services Librarian