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JUNE 29�JULY 6, 2022
FROM THE SHELF
CHECKING OUT THE
WORLD OF BOOKS
Summer
reading hits
the road
Erin McCusker
For Go! Magazine
The Summer Reading Pro-
gram is in full swing at your local
libraries. This year’s theme is
Read Beyond the Beaten Path,
and the libraries in Umatilla and
Morrow counties have teamed
up to invite you on a Library
Road Trip.
If you haven’t stopped by your
library and picked up a packet to
join the Library Road Trip, don’t
wait! The program runs from
June 1 through July 31.
Drop by your local library
and pick up a Library Road Trip
packet and get out on the road.
Fuel prices are keeping us closer
to home, so visit the 16 libraries
in the two counties. They all have
fun programs running during the
whole summer. And you can get
in your summer reading minutes
while on the road with audio
books.
At the end of July, after you
have visited as many libraries as
possible — hopefully all of them
— and picked up a unique brag
tag from each library, return your
completed Road Trip checkout
card to your home library. Your
name will be entered in a drawing
for a gift basket from your home
library and also in a drawing
for a library district gift basket.
Residents of Morrow County will
be entered into a drawing from
the Oregon Trail Library District
and residents of Umatilla County
will be entered into a drawing
from the Umatilla County Special
Library District.
With the generous donations
from many local attractions and
businesses, the gift baskets are
full of free passes for a variety
of summer activities and fun
treats. The following are just a
sampling: passes from the Farm-
City Pro Rodeo, the Hermiston
Libraries in Umatilla
and Morrow counties
invite people on a
Library Road Trip
this summer. Visit
libraries and pick up
a brag tag and get
your card stamped
through July 31,
2022, for a chance to
win a gift basket.
Erin McCusker/
Contributed Photo
Family Aquatic Center, the SAGE
Center and the Pendleton Family
Aquatic Center; mints from Mills
Mint Farm; fi re safety items from
the fi re marshal; and Library
Road Trip Bags and Library Road
Trip water bottle stickers from
AJ’s Screen Printing. Check with
your home library for a list of the
gift basket contents from your
library.
Photos of your library visits
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can be shared on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/groups/7
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Take a picture of yourself at each
library you visit and post it.
Everyone is encouraged to
get out and visit all the libraries
in Morrow and Umatilla counties.
And if you go beyond Umatilla
and Morrow counties, there is
room on the Road Trip card for
adding other libraries!
For more information, fi nd
the Morrow County libraries’
information at www.otld.org and
www.ionelibrary.com, and the
Umatilla County libraries’ contact
information at www.ucsld.org.
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Erin McCusker is the district
director of the Umatilla County
Special Library District.
Reach her at 541-276-6449 or
director@ucsld.org.
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