The Roosevelt County Library’s summer reading program works “to spark the love of reading” through the financial support of the Town Pump Charitable Foundation, library director Janet Livingston said.
A Town Pump grant provides the library in Wolf Point with supplies for projects, activities, prizes, snacks and, of course, books for the summer reading program.
“That is why we always purchase books to give away as prizes, and every kid attending will get books,” she said. “Sometimes we even do science experiments and try our hands at making food items, such as making butter in a glass jar.”
The grant also helped pay for a presentation by “The Lego Guy,” who has been collecting Legos all his life and now does programs on the history of Lego, she said. He brings totes full of Lego pieces for the children to create with, following a theme of his choosing or one they come up with.
But most of all, the funding from Town Pump Charitable Foundation “helps with putting books into the hands of children who don’t have any other access to books at home,” Livingston said.
“Many of our kids’ parents do not have library cards and those who do hardly ever visit the library with their children,” she said. “We do have kids who love to read and those who do not. When picking books to give to the kids, we try to get a wide variety of books, including graphic novels and comics, for those kids who say they don’t like to read, hoping to entice reluctant readers that it’s okay to read them even if they are comics.”
This year’s summer reading program attracted a consistent number of children, Livingston said, with several prizes awarded throughout the six sessions. The library celebrated the top readers at the end of the program, who each received a prize and a certificate.
“The Roosevelt County Library would like to thank the Town Pump Corp. for its continued support in helping us with our summer reading program,” Livingston said.
Keep Kids Reading ($123k granted)
- Absarokee — Absarokee Lending Library
- Alberton — Friends of the Mineral County Library
- Anaconda — Hearst Free Library
- Augusta — Lewis & Clark Library - Augusta Branch
- Baker — Fallon County Library, Inc.
- Belgrade — Belgrade Community Library
- Big Sandy — Choteau County Library Foundation
- Big Sky — Friends of the Big Sky Community Library
- Big Timber — Carnegie Public Library
- Bigfork — ImagineIF Library Foundation
- Billings — Billings Public Library
- Billings — Education Foundation for Billings Public Schools
- Bonner — Bonner School
- Boulder — Boulder Community Library
- Box Elder — Stone Child College Library
- Bozeman — Anderson School
- Bozeman — Bozeman Public Library Foundation
- Bozeman — Bozeman Public Library Foundation - Bookmobile
- Bridger — Friends of the Bridger Public Library
- Broadus — Henry A. Malley Memorial Library
- Brockton — Brockton School District
- Browning — Glacier County Library Memorial Foundation
- Butte — Butte Public Library - Uptown Branch
- Butte — Whittier PTO
- Cascade — Friends of the Library
- Centerville — Centerville Public School
- Chester — Friends of the Liberty County Library
- Chinook — Blaine County Library
- Choteau — Choteau/Teton Public Library
- Circle — George McCone Memorial County Library
- Clancy — North Jefferson County Library
- Colstrip — Friends of Bicentennial Library of Colstrip
- Columbia Falls — Columbia Falls Bookmobile Project
- Columbia Falls — ImagineIF Library Foundation
- Columbus — Stillwater County Library
- Condon — Swan Valley Community Library
- Conrad — Conrad Public Library
- Cut Bank — Glacier County Library Memorial Foundation
- Darby — Darby Community Public Library
- Deer Lodge — William K. Kohrs Memorial Library
- Denton — Town of Denton
- Dillon — Dillon Public Library
- Dutton/Brady — Dutton/Brady School
- Dutton/Teton — Dutton/Teton Public Library
- East Glacier — Glacier County Library Memorial Foundation
- East Helena — Lewis & Clark Library East Helena Branch
- Ekalaka — Ekalaka Public Library
- Elliston — Elliston Elementary School
- Ennis — Friends of Madison Valley Public Library
- Eureka — Lincoln County Library Foundation - Eureka
- Fairfield — Fairfield-Teton Public Library
- Forsyth — Rosebud County Library
- Fort Benton — Choteau County Library Foundation
- Froid — Froid Friends of the Library
- Geraldine — Choteau County Library Foundation
- Glasgow — Glasgow City-County Library
- Glendive — Glendive Public Library
- Great Falls — Great Falls Public Library
- Hamilton — Bitterroot Public Library
- Hardin — Big Horn County Library
- Harlem — Harlem Public Library
- Harlowton — Harlowton Public Library
- Harrison — Harrison Public School
- Havre — Havre-Hill County Library Foundation
- Helena — Helena Public Schools
- Helena — Lewis & Clark Library
- Helena — Lewis & Clark Library - Bookmobile
- Hinsdale — Hinsdale Public Schools
- Hot Springs — Preston Hot Springs Town/County Library
- Joliet — Joliet Public Library
- Jordan — Garfield County Free Library
- Kalispell — ImagineIF Library Foundation
- Lakeside — West Shore Community Library
- Lame Deer — Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation
- Laurel — Laurel High School
- Laurel — Laurel Public Library Foundation, Inc.
- Lewistown — Lewistown Public Library
- Libby — Lincoln County Library Foundation - Libby
- Lincoln — Lewis & Clark Library - Lincoln Branch
- Lincoln — Lincoln School
- Livingston — Livingston-Park County Public Library
- Malta — Philips County Library
- Manhattan — Manhattan Community Library
- Miles City — Miles City Public Library
- Missoula — Missoula Public Library - Bookmobile
- Missoula — Missoula Public Library
- Montana City — North Jefferson County Library
- Moore — Moore Memorial Public Library
- Park City — Park City School Library
- Philipsburg — Philipsburg Area Community Library
- Plains — Plains Public Library
- Plentywood — Plentywood School District No. 20
- Polson — North Lake County Public Library
- Potomac — Missoula Public Library - Potomac Branch
- Red Lodge — Red Lodge Carnegie Library
- Richey — Richey Public Library
- Ronan — Ronan Library District
- Saco — Saco High School
- Scobey — Daniels County Library
- Seeley Lake — Seeley Lake Elementary School
- Shelby — Toole County Library
- Sidney — Sidney-Richland County Library
- St. Regis — Friends of the Mineral County Library
- Stevensville — North Valley Public Library
- Sunburst — Sunburst Branch Library
- Superior — Friends of the Mineral County Library
- Terry — Prairie County Library
- Thompson Falls — Friends of the Thompson Falls Public Library
- Thompson Falls — Sanders County Bookmobile
- Three Forks — Three Forks Community Library
- Townsend — Broadwater School
- Troy — Lincoln County Library Foundation - Troy
- Twin Bridges — Twin Bridges Public Library
- Valier — Valier Public Library
- Virginia City — Friends of the Thompson-Hickman Madison County Library
- West Yellowstone — West Yellowstone Public Library
- White Sulphur Springs — Meagher County City Library
- White Sulphur Springs — White Sulphur Springs Public Schools
- Whitefish — Whitefish Community Library
- Whitehall — Friends of the Whitehall Community Library
- Wibaux — Wibaux Public Library
- Winnett — Petroleum County Public Library
- Wolf Point — Friends of the Roosevelt County Library
To learn more, visit townpumpfoundation.com/reading.
