To celebrate Halloween this year, we had our very first Teen Lock-In! We had a blast…if you missed it, we’re planning another one for next year!
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And I’d like to thank our fortune tellers for making the evening especially fun!
This year we had a photography contest to celebrate Teen Read Week.
Our winner was Chris J. He won a $25 gift card to Best Buy. Congratulations, Chris!
And here is his winning photo!
Congratulations to the following:
Jasmine D. – President
Surae S. – Vice-President
Jennifer A. – Secretary
Sparkles – our new mascot
Looking forward to a great new year in TLC!
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The Teens and I would like to the following businesses and individuals for making the summer a whole lot of fun for us!
Aunt Annie’s Pretzels – Twelve Oaks
Bonaventure – Farmington Hills
Comfort Suites – Wixom
Wixom Dairy Queen
Dermott’s
Emagine Novi
Hungry Howie’s Pizza – Wixom
Jay Moldenhauer – 3 time footbagging world champion
and, as always, the very generous Friends of the Wixom Library.
Our final party this year was a mini-carnival. Each teen who completed the requirements to attend the final party received 5 tickets. Then a ticket was received for each book read over the summer. These tickets were used to play games and get lots of prizes…mostly candy.
Hungry Howie’s of Wixom supplied us with enough pizza to go around and we are so grateful for their generosity because this final party had more teens attend than anticipated…so THANK YOU HUNGRY HOWIE’S!
We had five prizes this year for the teens who qualified for the drawing (and they could get more entries by reading more books). Congratulations to the following:
5th prize – $10 gift card to Dermott’s: Alicia J.
4th prize – $15 gift card to Barnes & Noble: Surae S.
3rd prize – $20 gift card to Emagine Novi: Ellie G.
2nd prize – $30 gift card to GameStop: Lea I.
and
Grand prize – $50 gift card to Twelve Oaks Mall: Grace B.
My only complaint was that I had to miss the party because I was very sick. I found out that I missed a very heated water balloon fight and our pinata was destroyed by the winners of the tug-of-war contest. Thanks to my coworker Andrea for hanging out with the teens and making the final party a success!
Check out the pictures of the party!
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Altered Art drew a big crowd again this year…we just put out all of our art supplies and the teens went with it creating some really cool pieces.
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Food Fear Factor went pretty much as planned…TWO teens vomited…the only surprise was that despite the giant trash cans planted next to them, neither of these teens chose to use it which made for a super fun clean-up. Don’t worry…I won’t share your names. 
Congratulations to Smrithi S. who won, despite being a vegetarian and having to eat even grosser concoctions to make up for not having to eat the snails or chocolate-covered crickets.
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The UNO Tournament was a little crowded and a little noisy…but it was so much fun. Congratulations to our winners! Our Grand Prize of a $15 gift card to 7-eleven went to Brittany M. The other winners at the final table each received a $5 gift card to 7-eleven: Samuel B., Bridget H., Jasmine D. & Ethan M.
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Some of my teens know what I went through to find a hacky sack expert…it took me months…but Jay Moldenhauer was totally worth it. Jay is a three-time world champion in footbagging. I honestly didn’t know there was such a thing but now that I’ve seen it up close, I’m just in awe of how much work goes into it.
We had more teens show up for the hacky sack program than we had for last year’s final party. It was awesome. I hope we can have Jay back sometime soon! Hint, Hint…this is a reminder to all of the teens about the deal Jay gave us…10 of you need to come and show me 5 consecutive kicks before the end of the summer and he’ll come visit for free!!!
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The second teen program for the summer was our Anime Club Special…we usually meet once a month, but we only meet once in the summer so we try to make it big. We watched Fruits Basket, made onigiri plushies, origami and we ate an unbelievable amount of sushi and japanese candy.
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