Vila works to make Reading Program successful
Posted on Sunday, June 29, 2008
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Susan Vila is a seasoned Summer Reading Program coordinator.
She managed the program in the summer of 2005 and was able to get through most of the 2006 summer sessions before she and her family moved to Jordan in connection with her husband’s employment.
They returned to the United States in 2007.
A long-time resident of Siloam Springs, Susan has three children: Samuel, 13; Charlie, 9; and Henry 6. She was an elementary school teacher before she had a family and became a homemaker nine years ago. She earned a B. S. in Elementary Education at St. Louis University.
Although Susan coordinates children’s programs and handles other tasks for the library all year long as a part-time employee, the Summer Reading Program is the most major, complex and popular program she manages.
The Summer Reading Program offers children age 3 and up a wide variety of activities, prizes, contests and topics, including films and concerts. The Summer Reading Program started June 12 and will end July 29 after 20 action and information-packed sessions. There will be a lot of arts and crafts, but also a presentation by the University of Arkansas Department of Entomoloy and a “ Worms Are Wonderful” presentation by the Solid Waste Institute of Northeast Oklahoma.
Summer Reading Program sponsors are: Friends of the Siloam Springs Library Foundation, Signature Bank, Arkansas Arts Council, Arvest Bank, Simmons 1 st Bank, Dayspring, and Allen’s.
For more information, call 524-4236.