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The residents of Sweetwater County took the challenge. We are officially NOT a big headed, remote clutching, couch potato community.

Adult Summer Reading is over.  It was a fantastic program, all three main libraries participated with tremendous results. Even with summer timing, the programs were well attended and the participation was through the roof!

We had a total of 847 registered participants with 492 people who finished reading logs.  That is a 58% finish percentage! The top reader read an astounding 78 books with many others not far behind. A total of 6,772 books were read and logged during the program.

Kyle Mills finished our programming with a presentation at the Rock Springs Library and Saturday evening at the Green River Library.

Kyle talked about getting started reading in libraries as a child and told tales of his father’s adventures in the FBI, some of which he uses in his books.  He also told of his adventures researching in South Africa, Egypt using contacts in the FBI and CIA,and his soon to be travels to Turkey and Syria. Both he and his wife Jill, mentioned that they found people to be the same all over the world; concerned about the same things, working, family and generally friendly and giving.

We want to thank Kyle for his generosity,  his passion for reading and writing and taking the time to share all with us.

The libraries would like to thank all of you who participated! The prize winners have been called and once they pick up their prizes, I will post them. We welcome your comments concerning adult reading or anything else you wish to bring to our attention.