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June 10, 2016
Making reading a family adventure
Story times share fun along with love of learning
Georgetown, main library to mix music and literacy
By Garth Snow
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Children’s librarians want families to enjoy weekly reading programs, and to take that same love of reading back to their homes. “You come to story time once a week and you’re here with your kids for 30 minutes, but it’s doing these things that we do at story time at home every day that really will make a difference in a child’s life,” said Kris Lill, the children’s librarian at the Georgetown Branch Library in Georgetown Square. “That’s our hope at story time. We always encourage families to do that.” Throughout the summer and throughout the year, kids gather for stories, nursery rhymes, songs and other educational fun. Babies,
Jim Gill wakes up in the Chicago suburbs. His day’s work might take him southeast to South Carolina or northwest to British Columbia. He’s been bouncing between states and time zones for 30 years, and he doesn’t mind a bit. “It’s the only way that I get to do what I do,” the children’s literacy specialist said. In July, Gill’s travels will bring him to Fort Wayne for three free presentations of Jim Gill’s Nationwide Campaign for Play. Here, he will engage children, librarians and other adults in the music and participation groups for which he is recognized. He wants to get everyone involved. “These are all very silly, playful ways,” he said. “The child development
PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW
Kris Lill, left, serves as children’s librarian at the Georgetown Branch Library. Michal Miller is on the children’s staff at the main library. Both lead reading groups for all age levels.
toddlers and even adults find ways to learn and to share. “It’s systemwide, so the main library and all the branches have an See FUN, Page A11
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For information on programs at all 14 Allen County Public Library sites, visit acpl.lib.in.us. Watch for highlights in the St. Joe Times Community Calendar.
First Snider Athletics 5K ‘good thing for everyone’ The inaugural Snider 5K will wind through the community at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 11. Runners and walkers may register beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the school, 4600 Fairlawn Pass, Fort Wayne. The Snider High School Athletics 5K Family Fun Run and Walk will start on the Snider track, wind through Glenwood Park, and wind up back at the track. “This is the first time we’ve done this, and it was kind of last-minute,” Athletic Director Steve Ziembo said. “This is just to get it going. If we can get a hundred people, I’d be extremely happy. “It’s nice because it’s going through the neighborhood that Snider is in. So it’s good for the neighborhood because they see the good works that
Snider is doing.” Online registration ended at midnight Thursday, July 9, but more race information can be found at timed-events. com. Timed Events will provide chip timing on the runners’ bibs. Results will be available online. Runners need not live in the Snider area. “Our school system has teamed up with Parkview Sports Medicine and they’ve been preaching health, and so any time that we can promote health within our Snider community while raising funds for the athletic department, it’s a good thing for everyone,” he said. He said he chose a run/walk instead of a golf outing because of the greater flexibility in the number of participants. Whatever the turnout, Ziembo says it will promote the athletic department and exemplify
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Get Snider 5K race information, or just donate, at timed-events.com. the community involvement of Snider and of Fort Wayne Community Schools as a whole. “A lot of good things happen here, and this is a great way to network the things that are going on in our school and school system,” he said. “I just think it’s a great way for people to get together and promote health.” “Some people who participate in this may never have taken part in a race, and it might lead them to getting involved in more running,” Ziembo said. “I think our city has done a good job of promoting running, in the Fort4Fitness for example.” “It starts at 9 in the morning so then you can have the rest of the day to take care of other business,” Ziembo said.
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Jim Gill will teach and entertain in Fort Wayne in July.
specialist part of me says I want to create experiences where they’re going to take that home with them. And then there’s the therapist part of me that says this is fun, and those are the songs that I came up with.”
His earlier works are readily available online. “Jumping and Counting” challenges kids to count to a certain number before they are allowed to jump again. Or there’s “The Silly Dance Contest,” which is a dance-andfreeze contest. His next work, to be released in July, is called “Vote for Jim Gill.” The title track teaches how one word can have two meanings. “I was coming up with all these words and I was putting them into phrases that rhyme, and all of a sudden it came to me that some of these phrases sounded very much like a campaign slogan,” Gill said. Don Stille accompanies Gill on the accordion. Stille was nominated for a 2016 Grammy in the classical division. Gill plays the banjo. See MUSIC, Page A13