 I'm going to move on to our next lightning round session and Lee I am switching over presentation to you. Lee Schauer, director of Rock Springs Public Library Wisconsin is going to talk about kitchen creations at the library and we do see your screen so you're all set to go. Terrific, thank you. So I've been at Rock Springs for about a year and a half. Rock Springs is a really tiny library. We have 362 people in our municipality and I think our service population is under 1,000. A couple of years ago we were devastated by flooding. The whole area was and our library was closed for about a year. So we lost businesses, we lost probably over 125 people, we lost homes. So it's been a couple of years, we're still in the process of rebuilding our community. So we have rebuilt our community center which the library is housed within and right next door to us, thank goodness, is a lovely kitchen that was just remodeled a few years ago. So it hadn't been used, it's for rent in our community, but it's been sitting quiet for a long time. So when I came here I thought, man, I have to do something here, perfect for the library and it was the perfect maker program. So everyone's heard of maker programs in their library. This is I think the most universal one ever because who doesn't eat. So one of the first things that happened which kind of tipped the scales into my kitchen creations program is we have a local artist who's also a bread maker and she had done a program a few years ago and the director who I replaced brought her in and said you have to have her do something. So she was the start of our, let's see, she was the start of our kitchen creations program. She came in, this was our first flyer that we put out for her bread making. Those are her pictures of bread that she's made in the past. We had good participation, probably around 12 people came to the program and it was a start and I thought, man, we should continue this. So we did Christmas cookie exchange that winter. That wasn't too popular, it was way too close to Christmas, but we did have some children participate in that and I'll just go through a few other things that we had. We did the bread making again last year and we decided to pitch it just a little bit differently. We still had the same flyers but when I went to the newspapers we pitched it as artisan bread making and the fancifulness of it and the culinary delight of it and this was just run last December and we had over 34 participants. So it was a little bit of a tipping point in our programming and suddenly we had a whole lot of people who usually go to other libraries so we're taking patrons into our library who've never been here and kind of wallowing them with our space. Let's see, we'll go to the next one. We continue to do this on every month. We had a few first, St. Patrick's Day. We had a man who was a chef at a local restaurant in another town come and he taught us how to do Irish potatoes and corned beef hash and then we got somebody suggested wouldn't it be great if we could do homemade bagels. Well I know how to do homemade bagels so we did homemade bagels. This is a program. The homemade bagels is one that we have done three times now. It's very popular and across is all age groups. Little kids love this, teens love this and adults love this. It's something that you have a lot that no one ever thinks they can do by themselves but homemade bagels are so much better than store bought. We also found the more we did this, the more talent we found in our own community and the more people were willing to share their skills and their specialties so we found out we had candy makers in our community and they were specialty caramel makers. That was a popular program around Valentine's Day and we also have a lot of winemakers in our area so we got in a local winemaker and that was a really cool program too. It was much more on the educational side where people sat down and took notes and all the other programs were very hands on so people got to just, you know, it was physical and then it was, they could taste their food at the end but the winemaking was educational but then at the very end we gave out samples of wine which made it very popular. This is another flyer for the homemade bagels. These are some pictures of some of the programs and you can kind of see a little bit. There's a lot of men, women, teenagers. There's children, it's really all over the map so we also had our library board president is a pie maker who's had family recipes for pie crust passed down generation to generation. She shared with us pie making was an awesome program and we also then got into homemade pasta which I think rivaled bagel making in popularity. What we got also from homemade pasta is we now have a pasta maker in our library for checkout which is a very popular checkout and since I've done this program at other libraries too and they've gotten pasta makers at their library and it's just never in their library it's always checked out and we also had a in our area we have something called fermentation fest it's we're going into our third year there it's a big community celebration about fermented foods so of course it was a no-brainer for our library to get into how to ferment foods and that's like sour crout or kimchi and that kind of stuff and through that one program we've started a fermentation club and it's just people get together every month and everyone brings vegetables to share chop them we jar them we and they ferment and it's this wonderful addition to the community this has brought in a lot of outside people too and then another program we've done along the lines of fermentation is the the kefir and the kombucha and it's learning about ancient ways to keep our food healthful and preserve it and these are very popular and of course it might not work in your community and people may have never heard of these things but in our community it was we've got this foundation of this big festival that like I said it's in its third year so it's growing and we are going to grow with it so we're taking advantage of what we have here from this also then has grown something called we're calling food for thought documentary and discussion series because this kitchen creation programs have become so popular this is a this is our first movie it's a year long program and their documentaries this one was fat sick and nearly dead we have that we have it in our library for checkout and through this we we ran a juicing program so this is the flyer for the juicing program people in our community have got juicers I'm sure Amazon.com is very happy about that but it it just creates a lot of community it connects people to local farmers that they're all critically acclaimed films that we're showing and it it's a focus on farming practices our food supply and how we are nourishing our families so it's connecting with people and it's connecting people within the community to each other this is the one we just showed it's called educated and it's about going on a vegan diet and we don't promote any of these things really that the films are showing it's it's just giving a consciousness to the food that we put into our our bodies so and from that we are going into our summer summer learning program and we've already got some garden space that the village owns right across the street from our library and they are going to let us create a pizza garden for the kids so we are starting the growing you know of the seedlings I think in late April and it's it's a venture that's going to go the whole year round and wrap up with a pizza party at the very end of the summer program and a lot of the veggies are going to be coming from what the children have grown so that is pretty much it I do want to mention one other thing though we got this book from amazon.com because we created a wish list on there and we have been very very fortunate to have some anonymous donor purchase well over a thousand dollars worth of material for us so if you do not have a wish list I highly recommend you get on amazon.com and make one because there are very generous people out there whether they're anonymous whether they're friends of your library who are willing to purchase things for your library through it. Questions that I would like to ask? Wow great. Thanks Lee that was awesome yeah one cool good comment we got on Twitter God thanks for to us for having us during the lunch hour. Sorry. I didn't have actual snacks if I could but yeah so to do this in your library obviously you guys have a full kitchen there and then that people can do these programs yes we do have a full kitchen however pasta making you know you can have a little Coleman stove you just need boiling water bagel making also you don't have to bake the bagels there you can you can just hard boil them in water there's many many of these programs do not need a full kitchen or a stove a Coleman a Coleman stove would would do you well so and because you're doing something food related do you need to be certified by the health department or do anything special with insurance issues well not as far as I know the municipality has insurance so that really has not been an issue or even questions so those questions you don't want to ask for fear of the answer yes exactly all right Lee thank you very much that was wonderful getting lots of tweets about the grow your own pizza plan so that looks like that's that's gonna go over really well