 Go here. Okay. All right. So we are ready for the final session of the day at Big Talk from Small Libraries 2018. I am Krista Porter, your host here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Our last session of the day is more than summer lunches. This is the end of the day. Maybe we are getting hungry. Hopefully, talking about food won't be a little too much for some people, but you had your lunch earlier and maybe brought some African snacks. So because we're talking about lunches now. More than summer lunches, social, cultural and healthy connections. Joining us for this presentation is Janet Reynolds. Hi, Janet. Hello. How are you? She is a, well, dual librarian. I'm not sure. She is both a public and school librarian. And I'll let you explain exactly where you are at there in Kansas. She's in Kansas, South of us. What school, how does that work out there? All right. I work at the public library evenings, weekends, summertime. And during the school year, up until this May, I will be, I've been the high school librarian there for about 14 years. So retiring from there and going to do full-time public starting in the summer. So, all right. All right, so go ahead and tell us about your school, your summer lunches program. Yes. Let's see. I can't tell slides change in here. There, whoops, so it went too fast. We're going the wrong direction. Let's go back. You should be able to get to the first one there yet. Yeah. Okay. Le Seen, the city of the Swan on the banks of the Meridazine. Most people don't even try to say the name of my town, much less mess with it. Le Seen, you said? Le Seen, Le Seen. It's French, it means the swan. And our river that we're on is the Meridazine, which is the marsh of the swans. Was founded in 1869 and the library and the town and the museum are all getting ready to celebrate our Cisquo Centennial in 2019. We are a small library listening to some of these others. We're going, wow, we are small. We have about 1,100 people and we serve a district rather than just a town. So there's about 2,400 in our taxing district. We're open about 45 hours a week. We have three employees that work about 35 hours a week in one part time. The first library is this little building here and that was the Zeta Library and it was built in 1906. From where I set today, I can see the all three libraries that we've had in our community. The Zeta Library was run by the Zeta Zeta Sorority and it wasn't a public library per se, but it was what they had. And then in 1960s, we moved to this brick building over here and it was remodeled in 1976. And then we outgrew that. Whoops. I think I lost the, let's try this again here. We moved across the street and built a new library. Are we gonna be able to switch slides here? You should be, do you have dual screens that you're working with? Uh-huh. Okay. You should be able to from either on the slide itself or if you have the other presentation version of it, the presentation view, presenter view. Let me see what this does here. Here we go. And in 2007, we moved into our new facility. We knew we were going to need to do more programming. We're about 50 miles south of Kansas City. We've almost become a bedroom community for Kansas City. They get on 69 highway and shoot to the city to work. And that kind of changed the face of our community. People were coming to the library for programs that we could offer. And the first time that we talked about summer lunches, we were doing a mad science program and we had kids coming in at noon and they were hungry. So we thought, well, we'll fix hot dogs. We'll do some odds and ends. And after that summer, I told the director, I said, we have a problem. And I said, we've got kids coming to the library that are hungry and there's nobody at home. So we started playing around with it a little bit, went to some seminars that the state and library had done and our workshops. And the first one we went to, we said, there's no way we can do a summer lunch program. But this was our fourth year. We're doing summer meals. We've experimented along the way. Our first year, we had shelf stable meals. And I don't know if anybody's familiar with shelf stable meals, but they came in a little brown bag and including the milk, nothing had to be refrigerated. And it was okay, the kids, they sort of ate them. It sounds a little iffy. Yeah. Well, iffy, we had partnered with the community and the community is going, wait a minute, what is this stuff? And some of it wasn't really recognizable. I mean, the cheese was kind of mushy and but it was there. It was free to us to offer to our kids. And it was run through the food bank in Wichita and they delivered it to us on pallets and we had pallets of paper bags and we served them for the summer. We continued to experiment the next year and we got hot meals from those people who do our senior meals. And that was better, but it wasn't food that kids liked to eat. It was the senior citizens meals and it wasn't really popular. So we started talking about self prep and I'll go more into that in a little bit. We had two sites. We did the first year we did four days a week at the library and we took lunch to the Lake community on Friday. And then since then we've done five days a week and we should still take lunch to the Lake community on Friday. The big thing was after that first summer was we were hearing from KSDE, hey, provide meals. Libraries get on board, provide meals, make Kansas ranks so low and providing summer meals and school districts can't do it. Libraries need to get on board and the question we had was is providing a meal enough. And we didn't think it was. And our goal was to get people into the library to use the library to not just a place where they could run in, grab their lunch and leave. And our philosophy was, you get them in here, get them using the stuff and they'll use other things. They'll use our computers. They'll check out books. We didn't get any extra help and summers are always our busiest time with the summer reading program. So that was a problem. We were trying to figure out what we could do. And if we're adding something every day of the week we wanted to have some lasting impact. The lady up there in the corner of the slides she was hired on by Kansas Extension and she came down and we sat and talked for an hour. And I said, you know, my dream is that we could actually feed these kids. And she got invited through K-State Extension to attend a workshop on providing summer meals. She calls me up and said, we can do it. And I said, okay. And she says, I'll be your facilitator. So Kathy came on board as someone from Extension who would facilitate what we were doing. We knew that we had the books. We have games, but we felt like we needed some mentors. And Kathy says, well, we need to slow down. Let's make a summer meals action team. And the first thing we did was we thought, okay, we're gonna contact the ministerial alliance because if anybody in the community will be on board with helping kids, it'll be the ministerial alliance. It was interesting. We went to the meeting and there were four of the ministers there. And one of them said, absolutely not. We will not support it. We feel that you're enabling parents to not take care of their children. And I walked away from that meeting, feeling very frustrated. And I said to Kathy, I said, this is gonna work. And I said, we're gonna show them that this is more than enabling parents. And so we contacted some civic groups and people with that exception of the one got on board. They said, hey, we're willing to give it a try. We realized that our community has more than 50% free and reduced lunch in the school district. And they realized that those kids received meals at school two meals a day during the school year. And in the summer, they don't get that. So I think five churches, including two churches that are about 10 miles away from us, volunteered to become mentors. So we fed our sack lunches, the mentors read to the kids and they taught them old games. We didn't want them doing the technology at lunchtime. We wanted them to learn some other things. So we taught them old maid. We taught them go fish, different snap, different card games, things that were new to them. The kids did not, they weren't familiar with it and they have fun. And I've lots of pictures that I'll show and talk about the pictures as we go. At the end of the summer, we felt we were successful but we wanted more. So in year two, in order to expand into the social and cultural and the healthy connections, we went with what we call Career Tuesday. Another area that our community is weakened. We don't have a lot of kids who go on to college and get big careers. We have a lot of people who stay in the community. They work low jobs. They don't think they can do anything better. And so our goal was every Tuesday to have someone come in and talk about their career, to encourage them that there's more out there than working at McDonald's. Working at McDonald's is fine but if you want more, there's more out there. And we've had chiropractors, doctors, nurses, firefighters, lawyers, people volunteered to come in during their lunch hour and talk to the kids. On Fridays, we felt that we wanted the kids to take a book home. And some of these kids are the kids who have a million overdues. Their parents won't let them check out library books because they don't wanna pay for them, whatever. I had a school teacher friend who was retiring and she had thousands of scholastic book points. And she brought those to me and she said, can you use these for your free book Friday? And I called Scholastic and a little discussion. They said, well, you're still a teacher and she can transfer those points to you and you can order. So we ordered, I think we ended up with three or four boxes of books from Scholastic from her points. So every Friday, they got to take home a book. They'd say, can we have more in one? Well, that year we said, hey, we only have one. The Methodist Church and the community has been a big supporter. They had received a Healthy Congregations grant and they helped us purchase a refrigerator and some coolers to transport the food to our Lake community. And they also received some money to do a fitness program. And so every Thursday we had Fitness Thursday and a retired PE teacher and her husband and a local lady who's into fitness, they came and they would work with the kids for 15 to 30, 35 minutes. And just getting them up, getting them moving, getting them away from their video games, kind of fitting in with what the lady said earlier about the physical literacy, getting them up and going. And that for a second year, we had some what we called entertainment Monday. Like I said, we're about 50 miles from the city. There's no movie theater, there's no Walmart. There's no entertainment either. And so we were able to bring in with the help of a grant from the First Option Bank, we were able to bring in some entertainers. We had like a juggler and a magician and a storyteller and they would come in right after lunch or right before lunch, depending on what their schedules would allow and do a performance for the kids. And it was something that they wouldn't see otherwise. So we had a real, real good response in year two. The action team got together and that's one thing I like about what Kathy's had us do. You know, I have ideas, the director has ideas, Kathy has ideas, but her action team, we go to them and we talk and they respond back to us and they say, hey, you know, we think you ought to try this. And sometimes they get me in trouble. But anyway, year three, we tweaked a couple of the ideas. We managed to get an entertainer every Monday except for the last two in August. And the friends of the library sponsored along with the first option bank. And we were able to have a bigger variety of entertainers. We brought in some musicians and magicians and storytellers and wildlife people and just different things like that. We brought in a lady who raises birds and does bird shows. So we were able to expand our program. Career Tuesday, we were more consistent and Kinsley-Paranlite has a generating station about five miles east of town here. And for the first time, they got involved with us and they sent in mentors. Some of their workers would come in during lunch hour and mentor the kids and they participated in the career Tuesday which really gave another aspect to Career Tuesday. They sent two ladies in who worked out there. One of them had gone the traditional route of going to college and she loves school and she talked about how she got to be an engineer. And the other lady said, I didn't do it that way. She said, there are other ways to get there. She said, we both have basically the same job now but we're different. And she talked about how she didn't like school. She ended up going in the military and there she learned a career. And watching those kids sit there and listen to those two ladies talk really meant something because they heard her say, hey, there's more than one way to get to a job as good as mine. Another thing that we implemented was a program called Try It, You Might Like It. And we would do it on Tuesday or Wednesday depending on what other programs we had. But the lady who volunteers and helps prepare all the meals, she said, you know, let's try some different foods that these kids might not have tasted. And so she would bring different things. One time she brought in orange carrots, white carrots, purple carrots, you know, and different things, showed the kids, had them try them and, you know, them vote on what they liked. You know, she made cornbread. I was shocked at how many kids that never had cornbread. She did some different foods that they might not have tasted before. And she brought roastiners from the field, you know, and then she cooked roastiners for the kids to eat and, you know, had them shuck the corn. And they were fascinated because most of the corn they have had came in a can or was frozen. So seeing it from, you know, the raw state to eating it was good for them. And we're a rural farm community, but a lot of our kids aren't on farms. A lot of our kids are living in town. Again, low income. So that is an experience for them. Wellness Wednesday, last year was hosted by the SNAP Ed Assistant, in which is Kathy. And she used the USDA curriculum for summer meals. And every Wednesday, they would do different activities. Fitness Thursday, again, was sponsored by the Methodist Church Healthy Congregations. And Free Book Friday's evolved into more than Free Book Friday. We have people giving us a lot of donations of books. And so if they said, hey, Miss Janet, can I have another book? We'd say, yeah, you can have a second book. And some of the churches said, well, what about the weekends? They said, these kids don't have food on the weekend. So they came up with making snack bags for the weekends. And they would put like oranges, apples, sometimes little Debbie's, and things that might not be as good as we gave them during the week, but things that they could take home and have for over the weekend. And this was all donated by the various churches and organizations. And the biggest part of our program was based on our volunteers. We couldn't do this without our volunteers. And I never realized how many volunteers you needed to handle something this big. And just kind of to show you our program, and this is something that I shared with our volunteers, we start in May as soon as school's out. And we were averaging 54 kids at different programs. And we went to June and we served 575 lunches. Doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a lot for our community, because a lot of our kids live in outlying areas. In July, it was about the same. And August dropped off because we're getting ready to go back to school. But all of these people whose names are on here, they were volunteers. They spent hours here at the library helping. They were a partner, either they gave us money or they showed up and helped the kids. We received a lot of financial support. And what did these people do for us? They mentored our lunch program. And by mentoring, we decided one of the things that we wanted to see was a lot of these kids don't have a good role model. And so when they would come in, we would set four kids to a table and an adult at the end of the table. So that adult had no more than four kids to try to talk to, visit with, read. Some of them provided classes, some of them served lunch. We had all kinds of things that these people were doing to help the kids and help the library. Who benefited? And like I said, I have a lot of pictures. I'm just gonna go through some of the pictures and talk about what's going on and how they benefited. This is one of our programs that we had. Daycare providers brought kids, parents. They're involved getting things active. They're dancing around, carrying on. They're getting up and moving. We did a lot of games and STEM type programming during, right before and after lunch. We did some cooking activities after lunch too. They've come and they've eaten and Kathy from Extension would stay and she would work with the kids on learning to cook, preparing healthy meals. One of our board members, husband's, works for Johnson County Fire. And so he brought his equipment in. Talked to the kids about what it was like to be a firefighter and let them try on his equipment. This is an example of the mentor, you know, sitting at the table, the kids have their food. She's reading to them. They're engaged. One of our storytellers that came in, you know, getting the kids involved, letting them know that there's, you know, things that they can do and enjoy. She had an activity for them to do after they were done with the storytelling and they're all up there drawing on their spaceship box. This guy over here in the blue, the kids call him grandpa. He's the Methodist Church Minister and he loves to play with the kids. He used to be a radio announcer. He, you know, just really gets involved with the kids and they love to play all made with him. And it will be really quiet, you know, everybody's eating and then all of a sudden you hear the laughs and carrying on, you know, because he's got them wound up with having fun and they fight over who gets to sit at his table. The gentleman in the gray shirt, he's a retired Kansas City Paranlight and he, him and his wife have been coming in and volunteering and the kids really enjoy having the male mentor. Here's another example of a program afterwards that we did some STEM stuff, some Lego creations, having the kids work together. Our setup for lunch, this is the lunch line. They come in through our door, get their tray. We have people serve them. This is after we started doing our own lunches. As I said, the action team sometimes gets up and gets me in trouble. They didn't like the sack lunches because they said it was a little questionable. They thought that the lunches for the senior citizens weren't exactly what the kids needed. And they felt that we could probably do our own lunches. And the lady all the way at the end, she has run a cafe and she's semi-retired, she does some catering. And she said, I'll help you. I'm not sure she knew when she said I'll help you that she was going to be actually preparing the meals and then serving the meals and making sure that all the things that we were serving met the requirements for KSDE and that we were giving the right size banana and we didn't have, they were all getting their vegetables and that the meat had a sheet that went in the notebook. There's a lot of paperwork that was involved. And without this crew back here, we wouldn't have been able to do it because we're still running the library in the other room. We have a lot of puppet shows, things like that. Real good picture there. We're working on a project we visited from different countries and the kids are making dollahorses. The meals do look much better after we started preparing them. The kids actually like the hamburger, they like the mashed potatoes, they know what they are. They can recognize what is being fed. More parent involvement with our cooking programs. This is a fitness Thursday program. The lady over here is a retired PE teacher. She loves coming in and working with the kids and we have all ages. So she's got some really little ones there that she's trying to teach to kick the soccer ball. And then she's got some older ones. And their goal is just to get the kids up and moving. That was actually what you just mentioned, the ages. That is somebody who had actually asked a question of what age groups are you working with in this program? Is there some sort of restriction on minimum or maximum age? They can be from one year old to 18 years old. With the way KSDE has it set up, we can feed them between one and 18 for free. And we got reimbursed for the meals. So there are some restrictions and I'll talk a little bit more about that here in a little bit. There's another cooking one. We were able to bring in a carnival type thing for one of the days and have the kids play. Again, sponsored by some of our local, especially the bank. We played golf in the library. This is the, try it, you might like it. She did purple potatoes and she baked them and asked the kids if they wanted to try them. And at first they weren't sure, but as you can see, the one little boy's got his hand up. He wants more. He definitely enjoyed that. It seemed like we had an awful lot of rain in Kansas last summer. And Jennifer, she's the third person who does the fitness. She had to come up with some games that they could do inside. So they're playing a basketball game with a laundry basket and a ball. She was very creative coming up with things that they could do inside when we couldn't take them outside. And there's a bunch of our kids that were participating. Again, you can see the mentors working at the high school. It gives me a little advantage. I can pull in some stucco kids, library club kids, national honor society kids. When I don't have enough adult mentors, I can pull some high school mentors. We have a couple of homeschool girls who worked almost every day as part of their community service project. And they, they do a lot of the work of the community service project. And they, they would be mentors. And just providing somebody for the kids to talk to. There you see the all made game. One of our entertainers talking to the kids. As you can see, we have a lot of parents, grandparents that show up too. And sometimes they set with their kids. Sometimes they end up having to be a mentor if I have more kids than I had mentors that day. And the kids really like when their teachers come. The elementary school, if I can get some of them to come in and mentor, it gives the teacher another, or the kids see a teacher in another light. There's our firefighter again. This was a Frisbee, we, we bought Frisbees and every kid got to take home a Frisbee so they could play and she's teaching them different games to play with Frisbees. And this one, they're playing Frisbee baseball and they had to run the bases after they threw the ball. Lining up for lunch, that one of the first things we had to get was something to keep the food warm because, once it's cooked, what are we doing with it till we serve it? So Heartland Rule Electric offered a grant and we were able to get money from them to help buy the warmer to keep things warm. They're learning to play baseball. Some of my best stories, it's always fun when the guys drop in and visit or volunteer and the local SROs have been in. I haven't got them to actually sit down and mentor but I've got them to come in and talk to the kids, wandering around the room and that's been a real thing. This guy sitting right here, he came the first summer and he's helped every summer, him and his wife but he came the first summer and I had a table full of teenage boys. They're kind of rowdy and he looked at me and he says, I don't think a book's gonna work. And so he picked up the chair, he went, he sat down, he turned it around backwards and straddled the chair and sat down at the table and he started talking about football. He started talking about hunting. Those boys did not wanna leave. I mean, here's somebody that talks their language, somebody that knows hunting, fishing and likes football and he sat in there talking and I'm getting tears in my eyes because these kids are, they're engaged. I really hadn't been able to engage them earlier. Most of the time it was, okay, don't mess with food, don't bother the other tables but that day he worked with them, had them engaged and I use that as an example when I talk to the mentors before we start our first summer lunch, I say, sometimes you look at what's at your table and then figure out, am I gonna try to read them a book or play all made or am I gonna talk to them? And it's been a real challenge at times but the mentors are getting more comfortable with it too. Rita, our lady who does our cooking for us, she's big on the fresh fruits and vegetables and if anything, a lot of times we had more fruits and vegetables than they needed but she wanted them to have a good selection. If they didn't like carrots, there was tomatoes or there was celery or there was apples or oranges or strawberries and she even brought blackberries for them to try things. She wanted them to have those experiences that they might not get at home. And options I'm sure is good because kids can be very picky. Right. And specific about what they will and won't even go near. That's right. And some of them with our try it, you might like it, they actually tasted something that they might not have tasted but just because the rest of their friends were tasting it too. Yeah, peer pressure. Yes. A good cause. Here is a Wellness Wednesday Wrap with Kathy. It was one of the USDA summer lunch things where each one of them had a part and they made a wrap. Here's another where Rita is giving them something to try to see if they might enjoy it. People often ask us how we set the room up. Well, we're fortunate enough that we do have a meeting room that we can set up and the only problem is that usually right before we've had a program and right after we're doing another program and maybe story our art, cooking, whatever, but we've got to be able to move things in and out. And the parents have been real helpful. Once we get done and they wipe the tables off, they'll help push things back, put up chairs. But what we try to do is set up a table, like I said, with four students or four kids and an adult. And that way the kids get to visit. It's not the fact that that person's too busy to talk to them. There's somebody there to talk to them. Our program got some recognition from KSDE. We won the best volunteer of the year and the best programming of the year in our second year. And so in our third year, Kansas Appleseed, which is a student advocacy group in Kansas, came to our meal and visited and watched what we were doing and she was working on a lunch across Kansas mural. So the kids all got to add something to the mural and then she had lunch across Kansas t-shirts and she drew for people to get them. And Ms. Rita actually got one. So it was kind of fun to be recognized by somebody else because we're a pretty small group. Again, this lady here is a very strong advocate for our program. She is doing the community garden. And last year they got a late start on the community garden, but this year they're already working on it. And they did bring us some fresh fruits and vegetables from their garden. And that way we did some of the, from the garden to the table program, getting the kids up and moving again. They're playing a nutrition game. Again, this is taco day and they're enjoying themselves. KSDE, the program has had a lot of rules and they can't take any food home. They have to eat it all on site and parents can't eat any of their food. So we had, and this is where again, my action team kind of told me they wanted something different. So, but here we're still under the KSDE rules. We're following it. So we have to have the signs in case the inspector comes. So parents know they're not supposed to take anything and all of that. More Fitness Thursday, our party. And we can't feed the parents normally, but a group in town provided donations. So the last at our big party thing, we were able to feed the parents too. And it's really good to be able to feed the adults because while they're sitting there eating, the kids see them trying things. They see them tasting things and it's good. And the Free Book Friday and the Goodie bags just got bigger. Ms. Rita was guilty of, somebody said, but Ms. Rita, can I have three books this week? And we're not gonna tell them they can't have books. Now she did tell them this year, she said, you know, if you've read it and you don't wanna keep it, bring it back and put it on the table and maybe somebody else will enjoy it. US Toy Out of Kansas City donated all the bags to us to put our books and our goodies in for the kids to take home on the weekend and they were good bags. Our volunteers, I can't say enough about them. I mean, we have an appreciation night and this is a group of our volunteers that are here for the appreciation night. These two ladies are the ladies from Kansas City Power and Light who went the different routes to become engineers and the two girls with them are my home school girls and they were really interested in what these ladies had to say. And there they are talking to the kids. We're feeding our volunteers. First option bank has been really good to us. They've helped financially this year. Not only did they help financially but they sent people down on their lunch hour to work with the kids. And so we had different employees from the bank and this last day of summer lunch, there was a discussion about some of these kids needed school supplies. And so several churches and organizations in the community plus our friends of the library group got together and bought school supplies and they made bags. And the middle school secretary said she had some backpacks that were new that someone had donated to her. She donated them to us so we could fill a backpack for our middle school kids. Our other kids got US toy bags full of school supplies. Just a real buy-in from our community. We'd say something and they would be there. Okay, I'm looking at the time. I got a few minutes here. What's next? We had a person and I'm gonna see it. I don't know if you'll be able to see this really good but we had an individual donate t-shirts. Storyteller cafe, library, food and fun. Yep, looks good. And working at the high school, we have a t-shirt shop at the high school. And so this was a win-win situation for our community. The lady ordered the t-shirts through the high school and the high school kids designed the shirt and the money went to the high school. And the shirts came to us to give to donors and volunteers. And so we're handing out shirts as people donate money and donate time. So we have a lot of Storyteller cafe shirts running around town now. Next is changes in the way we do things. Like I said, we've worked with KSDE for the last three years and my action team said, do we have to do that? Can we become self-funded? Can we do this on our own? And I said, well, even if we do it on our own, we're still gonna follow the regulations. And they said, no, that's not our problem. They said, our problem is is we're throwing away a lot of food because the kids can't take it home with them and the parents can't eat it. And so I visited, we're still on good terms with KSDE people. I visited with them and I said, here's what they're wanting me to do. Can we do that? And they said, sure, you can do that. We recommend that you stay within the guidelines. And I said, well, I fully plan to stay within the guidelines because we might have to come back. And so I put the challenge out to the community. I said, the action team says they want us to be self-sufficient. And I said, I need $5,000 by mid-March. I'm $230 short and we're not to mid-March yet. So I'm good. So the community has really backed us up. We have received a couple of grants. We got a small Walmart grant and another one from Heartland Rural Electric. But most of that has been $100 here from somebody, $100 there from somebody saying, hey, we appreciate what you're doing and we think this is a way to go. Kansas City Power and Light was going to do a community drive to buy the paper products but they've had a change in management. So I'm not sure if that's going to happen but at the action team meeting, they said they wanted to go ahead and do that community paper drive. We're changing some of our programming around allowing more mentor time because they said the 15, 20, 30 minutes that they got wasn't enough. We spent time thanking our mentors in 2017. And I found the quote that bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services and great libraries build communities. And I told my mentors that they were part of a great library because we were building a community. And they really, they feel pretty passionate about it. And let's see, I got about three minutes left. Does anybody have any questions? Yeah, not a problem. No, you did perfect. Yes, there is. Thank you very much, Jeanette. That was really amazing what you've pulled together there and for so many years and a very classic way of the library reaching out looking in the community to see what is the need, what's going on that we can get out there and be involved in and show what we can do. That's not just come and check out a book or come and hear a story tonight. Yeah, someone actually does want to say what you're just mentioning about needing to raise money. How can we donate? Well, you said you're short some of your funds. Is that something that anyone can just help you out with? Is there like a site or somewhere to go to? That's our friends of the library. There are 501C3 so we can run the things that are donated. It can be tax deductible. And if somebody wants to donate, we can make that happen. I don't have an online site. It would have to be mailed to our library, but they could contact the library and we could let them know if somebody wanted to help out. Yes, if you're interested in helping support their program so they can be self-funded, email Janet, find out how. All right, we do have some comments that are coming in in questions. If you do have any questions or comments, type it into the question section of your go-to webinar interface and we'll get them done. This is the last session of the day, so we have plenty of time to get to everybody's questions for Janet. Someone does say they love all of the great programming ideas involving the retired PE teacher and made me smile and gave me a few ideas. Thanks and keep it up. And as Miles does comment about how I love the intergenerational aspects. Very beneficial for kids and for retirees who want to stay involved and to give back. And that is an area that we're going to work on more. As I'm retiring from the school and coming here more, we're seeing the community age be more 50 to 90 instead of the little kids. And so, we're looking at doing some real cross-generational programming, getting them a little bit more involved. Absolutely, yes. The post baby boomers? Or is this the baby boomers that is you're talking? I'm not sure what they are. Someone also says, yeah, then the retired PE teacher that apparently caught a lot of people's attention was mentioned by many people that that's great, seeing them come in and provide their expertise at the library. Oh, and someone says, I've been toying with this idea for the past few years. Thanks for all the ideas to take it back to my board. Hey, perfect. And if she needs more information or he needs more information, let me know. This is great. If she needs more information or he needs more information, let me know. This is, like I said, this is one of the things I'm pretty passionate about now that I've gotten involved with it. I taught elementary for 18 years before I became a high school librarian and seeing, knowing where a lot of these kids came from. We're definitely filling a need. So I can get pretty passionate about this one. If you need someone to help you sell this to your board, Jana's the one to call. All right, so any other last minute questions you want to ask with Jana about how she did this? You did a really good, type it into the question section. You did a great job of explaining exactly how you pull it off. And I'm glad that it wasn't just come, have lunch, there's so many other things involved in it and so many different things they can do. Kids can get bored with too much of the same old, same old. So I think it's amazing. And just getting them up, moving around, getting them involved in something. We have no summer school program, no, so like I said, being a teacher, former teacher, I know the summer slide. And so we're providing the best we can do to help those kids stay on top of it. And I'd really kind of like to track those kids and say, hey, you know, Johnny and Susie came to summer library. How was their AIMS web scores when they came back in the fall? You know? Yeah. I mean, they have to be better. We had them reading books. So I hope you've had repeat customers each summer. Some of the same kids and still in town, still coming back. Right. And we, this last summer we increased like 33% in our attendance. So, you know, we had our repeat people, but we also had a lot of new people. And the lake development, this one, it's about five miles from town. And we have a good number of our kids live out there and they can't get to the library. So we had a couple of retired teachers say, hey, you know, on Friday, we'll take lunch out to those kids. And so outreach program. Yeah, we do that. And, you know, they've tried to include some of the things we do. It's a little harder off site to do that. But, you know, there are a lot of options. And I know a lot of states are encouraging libraries to do this. So, you know, if you're interested, we have several, I've presented a couple of the Kansas programs for KSD and Kansas Apple Seeds. So, and it's good to hear the different ideas that people have. IOLA for one has a bus that goes around and serves the kids off of the bus. You know, that's a dream. But, you know, insurance and liability and all of that, I'd rather have them come to me. Yeah, like a bookmobile, but a lunchmobile. And it's a little, yeah, there's a lot more to that. It's having like a lunch truck type thing. Yeah. All right. All right. Well, it doesn't look like anybody has been typed in any desperate questions they need to ask you right now. So I think just some comments in great program. Glad to have you share it with them. So I think we will wrap it up for you. Thank you very much, Janet. This was great.