Thank You to the Metropolitan Library System

Thank You to the
Metropolitan Library System

for the
Special Recognition Award

for

the Chicago Ridge Public Library's

Exceptional and Ingenious
Chick-It-Out Program

Pictured left to right:

Dawn Nelson (Library Board Trustee), Constance VanSwol (Head of Youth Services),

Alice Calabrese (MLS Executive Director), Irene Ciciora (School Liaison),

Kim Reese (Library Board Trustee)

Award Presentation

Thank you for this award...we truly appreciate it!

Chicken Picture Update

Library Director Kathy McSwain

Library Director Kathy McSwain poses for a picture with her Baby Chick quilt that she made in honor of the library's baby chicks. She gave the quilt to The Children's Farm in Palos which is the new home of the library's baby chicks.

Baby chick videos

Pictures

May

We are very busy planning for our gardening & worm projects!

The gardening & worm activities will begin to take place every afternoon starting @ 3:30 p.m. and ending at 4:30 p.m. starting Saturday, May 9th. We will offer a story, craft, or activity everyday just as we did for our month of April with our baby chicks!

We have had over 812 people come to the crafts & activities between April 1st & May 2nd! That does not include all of the people that have dropped in at other times to see the baby chicks! We thank everyone in the community for making the Chick - It - Out project successful!

Don't Forget!!!

Our baby chicks will be leaving the library on Friday, May 8th at 3:30 p.m. to go to The Children's Farm in Palos. We will miss them greatly,

but know that we can visit them at the Farm!

Ms. Marge caught a chick hatching & was able to capture the moment on video

Videos of the chick drinking water & hatching

Baby chick drinking water

Chicken starting to hatch...It takes a long time

and hatching...

and hatching...

and hatching...

and finally the chick hatched! The chick is very tired! After the video stopped we moved the eggshell so that the chick could move around easier.

Thursday Afternoon Picture Update!

Saturday Afternoon with the Chicks Program

Saturday Afternoon with the Chicks

This Saturday at 1:00 p.m. we will be having an Afternoon with the Chicks party.

Adults & children will have the opportunity to hold a chick, get their picture taken with a chick, make a chick craft, have a chick snack, and watch a chick movie.

This is an All Ages Eggvent!

We will also announce the winners of the Peep Dioramas and

Chicklet & Jelly Bean Guessing Contest!
We hope that you will stop by the library to see the cute, fluffy, baby chicks!

We have a variety of breeds that are all different colors!

Some look like chipmunks, a penguin, brown, reddish, black, yellow & more!

The baby chicks will be here until Friday, May 8th @ 3:00 p.m.

The chicks will then move to their new home at The Children's Farm in Palos.

Pictures from Wednesday