Asheboro library to host “End of Summer Reading” bash

A giant slide, a moonwalk, a dunking booth, a fire truck and more will help summer readers wrap up “Be Creative @ Your Library,” The Randolph County Public Library’s Summer Reading Program, from 4-8 p.m. Friday, July 31 at the Asheboro Public Library.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the party is free and open to all ages. Rain date will be August 7.

Activities also will include games, sidewalk art and balloons. The Friends of the Library will sell hot dogs, chips and drinks; proceeds will go to support Friends activites.

Everything will take place on the lawn in front of the library. The Cox Street driveway will be blocked for the event; library visitors can use the Main Street entrance to the parking lot or park in the county lot on the corner of Cox and Salisbury streets.

Although some summer activities will continue into the first week of August, the party marks the finale of the Summer Reading Program, which has drawn record numbers of children to libraries across the county. For more information about the party, contact Amy Keith Barney, 318-6824 or Myra Long, 318-6804.

Other Summer Reading events for the week of July 27 include:

• Magical Storyteller Mark Daniel: Liberty library, 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 28; Seagrove library, 2 p.m. July 28; Asheboro library, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 29 (at Asheboro Friends Meeting, 230 E. Kivett St.); and Ramseur library, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 30 (at the Ramseur Municipal Building).
• Storytelling program, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, Asheboro library.
• Summer Reading Finale with Garrett Traylor of High Point Piano, Archdale Library, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 29.
• Scholastic Book Fair, Randleman library, Monday-Saturday, July 27-August 1.

Weekly storytimes take place at the Asheboro library: school-age storytime, 3:15 p.m. Tuesdays; family storytime, 7 p.m. Tuesdays; toddler storytime, 10:10 a.m. Wednesdays; and all-ages storytimes, 10:30 a.m. Thursdays. For more details and complete schedules for all libraries, go here.

The Summer Reading Program is supported by the Friends of the Randolph Public Library and by a North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Grant via the Randolph Arts Guild. In all, the seven libraries are hosting almost 150 Summer Reading Program events for children, teens and adults through early August, and the Extension services department will take another 100 or so out into the community.