The Weyburn Public Library held its annual Summer Reading Program registration barbecue on Tuesday. Parents were also given an opportunity to sign up their kids for the activity programs taking place throughout the summer at the library.

For anyone who has missed the registration event, there is still a chance to get kids into programs.

“We still do have a little bit of room,” said Cora-Lynn Sexton, Children’s Programmer at WPL. “We are still accepting registration. So parents can come down and register their children.”

“It’s going to be the same activity for two days out of the week, so you will just pick one day for your child,” said Sexton. “So you’ll pick Tuesday or Thursday. Ages 9-12 will meet from 10 to 11:30. Ages 6-8 will meet from 2:00 to 3:30.”

“Preschoolers are meeting on Fridays and there’s three different times you can choose from,” she said, stating that registration must be done in person.

“Of course, your choice may not be guaranteed, but we are trying our best to accommodate everybody's preference,” Sexton said, noting that the reason for the changes are mostly due to having to put so many children on waitlists in previous years.

In order to avoid leaving anyone out, there has been a new weekly activity planned for outdoors.

“We wanted to try to accommodate more participants,” she said. “So we decided to do a larger group activity on Wednesdays, for ages 6 to 12, and meet at Jubilee Park, near the playground. It’s basically just so we can have some physical activity and fresh air, and to involve most of the kids that want to be involved.”

The program will run at Jubilee Park every Wednesday throughout summer with the exception of July 4 and August 15. Registration for the outdoor activity must also be done in person.

Children can sign up for the Summer Reading program at any time throughout the summer.

“When you register, each child will get a little book and a code to go on the TD Summer Reading Club web site, and you can make an account and keep track of all the books that they have read throughout the summer,” explained Sexton. “They can also keep track in their little book if they’d like to.”

“Every ten books they read, they come down to the library at the front desk and they get to choose a prize, a coupon of their choice,” she added. “We are working on a prize for whoever reads the most books in each age group.”

Parents and children signed up for both the summer reading program as well as the summer activities on Tuesday at WPL.

Families enjoyed hot dogs, hamburgers and watermelon on Tuesday at the WPL Summer Reading program registration event.