What Can You Do This Friday When It's 100 Degrees?

Parents are invited to bring their children and stay with them for a morning of ice cream and water games in the Silver City Park this Friday, July 17 from 10am-noon. Please bring a towel and feel free to bring water toys such as squirt guns.

Silver City basket maker Kathy Mena will lead children in helping to make homemade ice cream with her hand crank ice cream maker this Friday. Dayton’s Community Roots will contribute fresh fruit from their Thursday Farmers’ Market for the ice cream.

This event is organized by the Silver City Task Force and Volunteer Library and funded through the task force, Healthy Communities Coalition, and volunteers including Comstock Youth Works teens and Kathy Mena. Please contact Quest at 287-7598 for more information.

If you haven't gotten a copy of the new books for young children for your child, you can pick up one then. Contact Quest for more info.

Readers' Choice Summer Reading from Silver City Library

We have a few recommendations for great summer reading available at our library. Please post your own suggestions and we'll feature them in a readers' choice display at the library this summer:

1)Theo recommends the biography Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo by Kenn Harper and also the fantasy adventure Fire of Heaven trilogy by Russell Kirkpatrick including Across the Face of the World; In the Earth Abides the Flame; and The Right Hand of God.

2)Quest recommends the nonfiction book Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat by Robert Sullivan

3) Mylo, age 9, recommends Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

4) Mert recommends Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

Children and Parents Activity Days at the Library Fridays 10am- noon

Silver City Volunteer Library is hosting Friday morning activities for parents and their children. We've had such a good time wtih the following activities in June: teaching preschoolers literacy skills with Dolch site words; Tune In To Kids day with Nevada Early Childhood Project; and Planter Decorating Day (thank you Community Roots and Beautiful Foods Farm for terracotta pots and chives, thank you NV Dept of Health for the beautiful new books for children on nutrition and exercise).

Watch the Silver City Facebook Site, Dayton Courier, www.virginiacitynews.com, and the Silver City Post Office board and School House board for announcements about children's events on Fridays 10am-noon. Friday, July 10 children and their parents are invited to a messy day of outdoor art with shaving cream and pudding painting. Call Quest at 847-0742 for more information. These events are organized by the Silver City Volunteer Library and Task Force, with funding from Healthy Communities Coalition, local fundraisers, and lots of volunteer help from parents and the teens of Comstock Youth Works.