Pet Talent Show

Cats, dogs, hamsters, ducks, and a bullfrog made up this years pet talent show at CPL. Every pet received an award, from shaggiest tail to best swimmer.

Scrapbooking Fun At CPL

Laura Sutter, Marissa Lippa and teacher Michele Johnstone had fun scrapbooking at the CPL - one of many things being offered at the Library this summer.

CPL Talent Show

Chili has Talent – Two sisters, Hannah and Riley Harper took part in the library's talent program last Tuesday for kids, whereupon they received big applause from those in the audience.

GAMING MADNESS FOR TEENS

GAMING MADNESS at the CPL was a big success for teens this summer!

Kristen Pope takes times to play with Chris Pallace (game designer) at a recent CPL Program.

For Ages 12-18, board games, card games, Wii games, and game games are played, with snacks provided. Gaming Madness is Every Friday until August 14th.

Friend's at the Farmers Market

The Friend's of the Chili Public Library had a booth at the last Chili Farmers Market on Saturday. They were taking new memberships but selling fiction and non-fiction titles of books that had been donated for upcoming booksales. The proceeds of which go to the library. When you are out there for the next two Saturdays be sure to stop by their booth.

Mr Beau

Mr Beau the Clown visited the library yesterday and put on quite a show for the kids as they watched him apply his makeup from start to finish. Each child walked away with a balloon animal as well!

50's Day at the Library

Following the Summer Reading theme - Create @ Your Library, the library had a 50's Day today at the Library, ending with a showing of the movie Grease.

Simply Stories on Thursdays

Kids of all ages are welcome to join us Thursday mornings at 10am for Simply Stories. This is a half hour drop in story time, with stories, songs and fingerplays shared by our children’s staff. Weather permitting the program is held outside. You can see by this photo it is a good way to spend the morning.

Summertime and the reading is easy…

The library’s 2009 Adult Summer Reading started on June 26 and runs until August 14. For every book read during this time, adults may fill out and submit one coupon for weekly prize drawings. There will be a grand prize drawing on Friday, August 14. We are also having a friendly “Great Reading Race” with the East Irondequoit Public Library to see which library has the most books read by adults as evidence by the number of coupons submitted at the end of the summer reading program. The Summer Reading program is sponsored by the Friends of the Chili Public Library.

Kids Can Win a bike in our Summer Reading Contest

Two brand new bikes have been donated courtesy of Five Star Bank in North Chili for the Summer Reading Program. The bikes (a girl's bike and a boy's bike) are now on display in the library. We will be holding a raffle on Friday, August 14th and the two lucky children selected will win the bikes. Tickets from all six weeks submitted by kids during the Summer Reading program will be used towards the bike drawing in August. So if you haven't signed up for Summer Reading or are a bit behind in your book reading, it's time to gear up kids and read!

Chil-E Fest 2009

This year's Chil-E Fest was the best yet. The library had a booth and introduced many people to the library's summer reading program. Many children received a press on library tattoo as well. Later on the library was represented in the Chil-E Fest Parade. Many thanks goes to the staff that manned the booth (Deb, Jenn, Carol, David, Claire, along with Claire's daughter Susan), and those who organized our participation in the parade (Sandy our CPL Friends' Board President and CPL Friend Loretta, our clerk Nancy, and our children's librarian Jenn). Thanks also go to our welcome long time patrons who took part in the parade.