Free Little Library Winner
Rick Brooks, co-founder of the Free Little Library was on hand at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books to explain how the libraries work and how they have cropped up all over the world. Stacey Paulson won a Free Little Library which she promises to share a photo of when it is set up and operational.
Essay Winners Announced
Seven students will be honored as winners of the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books Century Fence Student Essay Contest at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20 at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.
First place in the high school division will be awarded to Callie Lindemeyer, Kettle Moraine High School,$250; second place, Lakeisha Allen, Waukesha South High School, $175; Third Place, tie, Andy Behling, Kettle Moraine High School, $75, and Catherine Chapman, Waukesha South High School, $75.
First place in the middle school division will be awarded to Lucy Chapman, Waukesha Horning Middle School, $250; second place, Beatrice Rasmussen, Whitefish Bay Middle School, $175; third place, Valerie Perkins, Waukesha Horning Middle School, $75.
The Century Fence Student Essay Contest is sponsored by Century Fence Company to increase the involvement of young people in the Festival. Approximately 80 students entered the contest, which required them to write original essay based on the theme, To Books and Beyond: Literacy Without Limits. They were asked to describe how reading has taken them beyond their world with specific details about how their limits have been expanded through books.
Judges for the contest were Festival of Books Co-Chair David Hackbarth, retired Menomonee Falls school district teacher Reathy Hackbarth, Waukesha County Supervisor Larry Nelson, UW-Waukesha Emerita English Professor Margaret Rozga, UW-Waukesha Library Director Scot Silet, and UW-Waukesha IT Coordinator Denise Spleas. The students will be awarded prizes at the Keynote event. The first place winners in the high school and middle school category will read their essays at the Festival at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21.