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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Jaime Thoreson works as a Youth Services
Librarian II at Sherwood Public Library, and has been working in the libraries
of Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS) since 1996. Please
download and read her latest article, “¡Bienvenidos! Cuentos en el Parque:
Taking Library and Other Community Services on Location,” here: <a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol25_iss4_5" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol25_iss4_5</a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span></span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">From Jaime’s article:
“</span></span><span>During
the middle of the summer in Sherwood, Oregon, if you are walking through the grounds
of one of the largest parks in town, you will see tables set up for lunch for a
crowd, other tables with free books and community information, bubbles filling
the air, and about 100 kids and their grown-ups enjoying a camp-like
experience. You will see families of all demographics enjoying stories and
songs in Spanish and English. You will see happy faces lined up for lunch, and
a riotous enthusiasm that only kids exude during a fun craft or outdoor game
activity. You might wonder what is going on. Is it a school gathering? Is it a
city event? Is it a community fair? The answer is all of the above. It’s
Bilingual Storytime in the Park/Hora de cuentos en el parque, an annual
storytime session that runs once a week for six weeks during the summer, now in
its fourth year.” <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Jaime says the best part of her job is
getting to work in her hometown community. Her passion is providing readers’
advisory to youth, especially reluctant readers. When she is not at work she is
knitting, biking, reading, gardening, and discouraging rebellious chickens from
crossing the road at her small farm in the country.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>This article was written before the
events that began this spring. The OLA Quarterly Coordinator takes full
responsibility for the lateness of this issue."<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">





</span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you,</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Charles Wood</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</span></font></div><div><br></div></div>