The following are some examples of events where FRIENDS have provided support to the outstanding Children's Librarians to provide programs and activities for children in the community.

Carmine Rau, Children's Librarian, hopes that more than 1400 Bainbridge Island children sign up in this year's Summer Reading Program.  The Summer Reading Program is an annual summer favorite for children and a great incentive to foster a love of reading at an early age.  The program is county-wide in the Kitsap Regional Library system.  For the Friends of the Library groups in each library, it is usually the top supported library program.  Other sponsors include the KRL Foundation, Kitsap County, the S'Klallam Tribe, Kitsap Rotary Clubs, and the Kitsap Sun.

 

The Bainbridge Foundation has pledged 10 cents an hour up to $1700 for time read by kids for the summer reading program and the money will be given to the Bainbridge Rotary to help build a well in Uganda.