As the Crestview Public Library wraps up a superhero summer, we’d like to thank our superheroes:
•Applebees and Whataburger for coupons for free food
•Henry, Viviana, Theron and Orlan Lasher for providing and serving snack at our recent Reader Awards
•Audrey Milcarek for teaching summer stories to 6- to 8-year-olds
•Meghan Hansen and Pam Pannasch for teaching art to 9- to 11-year-olds
•Ms. Jean Lewis, library director, for supporting summer programming and for her summer reading outreach at Mount Zion AME Church
•Library staffers for checking out, checking in and shelving all of those books and movies
•Volunteers for shelving, shelf reading and helping me in various duties as assigned
•Friends of the Library for providing craft supplies
•Officers Wanda Hulion, Sam Kimmons, Shawn Kriser, and Jerad Mullinix, and K9s Cody and Sonic, of the Crestview Police Department, for teaching us about keeping the community safe
•Okaloosa County Health Department and Nurse Practitioner Heather Overton for teaching us about health heroes
•City of Crestview Fire Department for teaching us about firefighter heroes and for coming when we smelled something burning
•Everyone who donated goodies throughout the year for the funny money store
Heather Nitzel is the Crestview Public Library's youth services librarian.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Crestview library thankful for summer superheroes