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  • Pop-up park story times wrap up for the summer

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    Youth Services librarian Katie Helf (left) reads one of the books to the audience as Adult and Youth Services librarian Kristin Redmond leads the kids in accompanying activities.

    Story times are a staple for young children at libraries around the country, giving kids an early introduction to reading.

    The Cherry Hill Public Library holds story times on a regular basis, though some of them are done with a twist.

    In the summer months, the library holds a series of story times in some of the township’s parks, alternating week to week between the Barclay Farmstead and Croft Farms called Pop Up Story Times.

    The seasonal story times are the result of a partnership between the library and the township’s Parks and Recreation department, a collaboration that has been ongoing since the pop up story times first started in 2016. 

    This year, they were held every week on Friday mornings from June 27 to Aug. 15 to overlap with summer reading. The theme, Color Our World, heavily inspired the story selection each week.

    Each week featured a different theme based around the idea of different forms of art, including painting and music. Microphones were used to make sure everyone could hear, no matter how far they were from the two speakers.

    Story times not only included reading and showing illustrations from the chosen materials, they also featured activities throughout the event to keep the children engaged.

    Youth Services librarian Katie Helf and Adult and Youth Services librarian Kristin Redmond began each meeting by leading the gathered children and their caretakers in song, often using nursery rhymes or variations of them to get them further invested before beginning the readings.

    The park-based story times were originally created as a way of raising more awareness of the library and the number of different programs it holds among residents of the township.

    “We moved around to different parks, trying to engage people in the different neighborhood parks,” Redmond explained. ” … If they happen to be here playing on the playground, they would say, ‘Let’s listen to this story time’ to hopefully engage them and get them to come to the library.”

    Each week, the story times saw a turnout of around 100 people, with the final week seeing 130 people come out.

    “We’re grateful for everybody who comes out and supports the program,” Helf said. 

    The final week, held on Aug. 15, had the theme of music and sounds.

    To go along with this theme, they read “Music is in Everything” by Ziggy Marley and “This Musical Magical Night” by Rhonda Gowler Greene and James Rey Sanchez. They also sang songs between the stories. 

    Children were encouraged to join in on the sounds showed and call out the different colors that appeared.

    Cara Dunn was one of the Cherry Hill residents who brought her children out for the story times, meeting up with a group of cousins and friends.

    “We’ve been here every time they’ve had it in Barclay farms this summer,” Dunn said. “We enjoy that it’s good for all ages, and the kids can roam and have snacks.”

    Each story time session wrapped with a final song as children and their parents sang along.

  • Library lets young artists compete with their art

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    Art contest attendees review works on display outside the library. The theme was “Color Our World,” as it was for the summer reading program.

    Summer reading for all age groups at the Cherry Hill library has come to an end.

    A final event for the kids and teens who participated in the seasonal challenge was an art contest on Aug. 12 based around the 2025 reading theme, “Color Our World.”

    Katie Helf is a youth service librarian.

    “We just wanted to have a good night to celebrate art at the end of our summer reading program, and then give families a good place to gather and have fun playing some of the games, vote on the art and have just a nice family event,” she said.

    The contest was separated into divisions based on the wide range of ages present. One was for kids 7 to 9, one for preteens 10 to 12, another for participants 13 to 15 and the last for teens 16 to 18. 

    The contest took place under a tent outside of the library called Friendship Grove, with art pieces lined up on tables on either side. Another table was set up at the back of the tent for refreshments, with seating available in the center. 

    The library received a total of 25 submissions for the contest, most in the division of 7- to 9-year-olds.

    “We had 25 art submissions, which is wonderful,” Helf noted. “And everybody who’s here seems to be having a wonderful time.” 

    The works ranged in style and medium, including several drawings and paintings – some featuring mixed media elements – a photograph and a three-dimensional sculpture. Next to each piece was a tag with the artist’s name, age division, title of the piece and the inspiration behind it.

    To decide the winners in each category, the young artists themselves, parents and family members and passersby who chose to drop by got paper ballots to make a selection from each age division. Teen library volunteers tallied the votes.

    Each winner received a $25 gift card to Maple Shade Arts & Drafting, while first- , second- and third-place winners could have their work displayed in the library. 

    The youngest winner – from the 7- to 9-year-old group – was Will Zemaitis, for his painting, “Peace Begins With Me,” a circular canvas split down the middle by a rainbow peace sign, with day depicted in the gaps on one side of the symbol and night on the other. 

    Courtesy of the Cherry Hill library.
    Will Zemaitis shows off his winning painting after the art contest, called “Peace Begins With Me.”

    His father, Dan Zemaitis said the family’s faith helped inspire elements of his son’s artwork.

    “We’re Quakers, and so that’s why he went with the peace sign,” he explained. “He also picked the night and day and the Yin and Yang part of it. So it was great. We’re really excited.” 

    Winning pieces from the other divisions included a painting of a landscape called “Eyes of Illusion” and a work titled, “Color Within,” by Jimin Jun, from the 13- to 15-year-old category. 

    “I believe that inside of our hearts there’s endless colors that can bloom and flow out,” she said of her inspiration. “The world becomes more colorful and warm.” 

    Courtesy of the Cherry Hill library.
    Jimin Jun displays her art piece after being announced as the winner for the 13 to 15 division.

    The event ended with winners given a choice to take their works home or have them displayed in the library.

  • In the soap at township library fundraiser

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    Carolyn Fahy instructs several attendees at the soap-making event on how to stir fragrance and color.

    The Cherry Hill library hosts at least one fundraiser a month to finance its various programs throughout the year. 

    The most recent was a soap-making workshop on Aug. 6 led by Carolyn Fahy of Uplifting Soaps LLC. She initially picked up the hobby during COVID, before transitioning into teaching classes on the craft.  

    “I took a soap-making class in person, and I literally brought home bulk everything, and I started making it from scratch,” Fahy recalled. “And then my husband said, ‘We have a lot of soap … I was like, I’m going to try to find something I can keep doing because I loved it so much. And I ended up here doing workshops.” 

    Library guests created two bars of soap, choosing a mold, color and fragrance for each, as well as choosing toppers to decorate them. Molds came in a variety of shapes and patterns, with some in the shape of roses or with ocean waves or floral patterns. Others were more classically shaped smooth ovals or rectangles. 

    Several library guests finished creating the mixture of soap before pouring it into molds.

    The class used a melt-and-pour method for their creations, which entails using soap specifically made to be melted down, cut it into small pieces, melted in a microwave or warmer and poured it into the desired mold, adding colors and scents as desired. 

    Family members Ariel Tecza, Adrianne Tecza, Kristin Tecza and Corinne Tecza attended together.

    “It was unique,” said Ariel, “because I’ve never made soap before. I liked all the options and all the colors.”

    Toppers, smaller and sometimes shimmery soaps came in various shapes, from paw prints, four-leaf clovers and mermaid tails to more unique shapes like Labubu dolls. 

    Given the number of fundraisers the library holds during the year, volunteer coordinator Meredith Meyer tries to make the monthly events more substantial and unique than free classes at the library.

    “I’m always looking for crafty things to do as fundraisers to make some money,” Meyer said. “They’re going home with a little bit more substance on something like this.” 

    Members of Fahy’s family helped to melt the soap in paper cups as she called up tables one by one so the handling of the molten soap could be managed. 

    Fahy emphasized to attendees the importance of stirring the liquified soap quickly, before the mixture begins to thicken soon after being removed from a heat source. Fragrances and colors were added to the soap slowly as participants mixed them, allowing them to choose the exact depth of color and strength of smell in the bars. The mixture was then poured into the molds.

    Once both molds were filled, crafters took the trays holding them and waited for them to set. Once that happened, the bars could be removed from the molds without getting damaged, and guests were asked to attach toppers. Fahy melted the flat bottoms of the decorations on a pan over a hot plate, then adhered them in the spots the attendees requested.

    Jennifer Bailey attended with her mother and saw neighbors she hadn’t seen in a while. 

    “That was cool to be connected with the community,” she observed. “It was amazing. It was really fun to learn the process, and it was really cool that we’ll have these pieces to take home with us.”

  • Coloring their world

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    Sharon Clarke reads “Colorful Dreamer,” a picture book about the life of artist Henri Matisse, to children at the library.

    As part of its summer reading program, the township library has held events centered around art, befitting its theme of “Color Our World.”

    Among them is the Little Artists series, which held three sessions earlier this month. Each one focused on a famous artist – including examples of their work – and children created their own pieces in the style of that artist.

    Sharon Clarke is a youth supervisor librarian. 

    “I thought it’d be fun to show a little bit, learn basic things about the artist and then have them make the art first hand and in their style,” she said.

    In the first session, participants learned about George Seurat and created art with his technique, known as pointillism, in which dots of color applied to blank paper or canvas are used to create an image, with the viewer’s eye blending the dots from a distance. The children used Q-tips to create the dots. 

    The second event focused on Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese contemporary artist who works mostly in sculpture and installations.

    “She’s known for her polka dots,” Clarke explained, “known as the princess of polka dots … We made paper pumpkins, because she’s known for pumpkin sculptures with polka dots.”

    The last of the program series focused on Henri Matisse, a French artist known for the use of color in his paintings and collages with painted paper. The session began with Clarke – wearing a T-shirt that featured Matisse’s “Icarus” – showing the kids examples of the artist’s works, how they were created and common themes like plants and birds.

    She also showed examples of his collages, explaining how Matisse referred to them as “drawing with scissors.” Clarke then read a children’s book based on his life, “Colorful Dreamer.” It explored how the artist grew up in a dreary French village and thought of joining the circus as a child, an idea his parents discouraged. He had turned to studying law when he became ill.

    During his recovery, Matisse discovered painting and began to heal. “Colorful Dreamer” features dull images to represent his time in law school, then colorful ones to represent his art career.

    After Clarke finished story time, she transitioned the children into craft time, where they used colored construction paper, scissors and glue to create collages like Matisse’s, helped by two teen volunteers.

    Gina Winters was in attendance with her son, Ben, both of whom attended all three sessions of the “Little Artists” series.

    “Every week it’s a different artist and a different project,” she noted. “It’s just a really nice moment for grown-ups to connect with their kids and make some art together.”

    Winters and her son both created collages, with Ben explaining to his mother his plan for making a turtle.

    Parent Gina Winters shows her finished collage project, as her son Ben works on his own across the table.

    The session ended with children and parents taking home their finished pieces, holding them up to show them off.

  • Messages from the heart for deployed military

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    Military spouse Amy Bash helps participants make cards at the Healing Art for a Hero’s Heart event.

    Among ways to boost the morale of active-duty military members are messages of support and gratitude in letters or cards. To help township library patrons do that, Healing Art For a Hero’s Heart hosted a card-making session on July 23.

    Amy Bash, an artist and military spouse herself, created the organization in 2019 as a self-proclaimed passion project. Her husband, Dan, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves who was deployed to Kuwait in December 2019. She decided she wanted to learn how to send him packages.

    “It’s important,” Bash noted, “especially with the world in such turmoil.”

    The card-making session was designed for all ages. Bash herself sketched out several of the cards, leaving others blank for anyone who wanted to create their own image. All supplies were provided by Bash and Healing Art For a Hero’s Heart.

    Designs included Christmas trees and ornaments – for holiday messages – bald eagles in Santa hats, flags, hearts, doves, stars and soldiers saluting. Maria Dybalski found painting her own card rewarding.

    “It was gratifying to be able to do something as meaningful as recognizing their efforts …” she said of deployed military members. “And if it were me receiving it, I would appreciate it.”

    Library participants were provided with brushes, palettes, pens, pencils, markers and watercolor paints, with Bash giving the attendees a demonstration of different water color techniques, including wet on wet and wet on dry.

    Jim Gardner is a friend of Bash who helped her set up the card-making session.

    “It’s a good organization to be part of, to help the military,” he noted, “because they’re forgotten about sometimes during the holidays, and it’s always nice to make things for them.”

    Completed greeting cards will be sent to deployed personnel who have ties to South Jersey families in time for the winter holidays and will be distributed to all branches of the military.

    Place settings were set up at the library with a flyer that offered examples of phrases and messages for the cards.

    “I provide copy to help folks figure out what they want to say or how to say things,” Bash explained. “We don’t know if they’re men or women. We don’t know if they could be the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guards. We don’t know which branch eventually they’re getting to.”

    Sorymar Soto was also at the card-making session.

    “I think of them (the military) being away from their families and loved ones,” she related. “So it kind of makes me feel, if it was me, it would maybe be a very sad situation. So just receiving a message, even from a stranger, makes it more impactful, because it shows that people care far away.”

    Hand-made cards were displayed on a back table at the library to be collected and sent to active duty soldiers later this year.

    Cards were signed by creators, including first names and their towns of residence, so recipients can see how far their creations traveled to get to their destinations. They will also have a star from a decommissioned flag placed in them as a small gift and token of service.

    Besides creating cards to raise the spirits of the actively deployed, Bash also emphasized the event as a social activity, a chance to get out and engage with others in the community.

    “I love seeing all the different generations,” she said. “You’ll see grandparents with grandchildren come out. You’ll see friends. You’ll see neighbors, people didn’t even know they knew each other.”

  • Two, three, four: Social dancing at the library

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    Nina Rubinstein and Tony Castro demonstrate the proper posture for the rumba at a library social dance session on July 15.

    The beats heard on July 15 at the township library came from the first of three planned summer social dance nights there.

    Participants were encouraged to come out whether or not they had a dance partner; they would be matched with other solo attendees for social dancing with groups or partners in an informal setting. Instructors Tony Castro and Nina Rubinstein taught the night’s dance: the rumba.

    Jasmine Riel is the teen librarian, but she organized the adult dancing and asked Castro, her uncle, to teach the session with Rubinstein.

    “They social dance all the time …” Riel said of the duo. “What’s great about having it here is that it is free for everybody to attend, whereas in a lot of other places, it might cost money and it’s a commitment … Here, what’s kind of great about a lot of the instructional programs, whether it’s a dancing program or crafting program, is that it’s a much more informal learning setting.

    “You can get your feet wet, you can try something new.”

    Participants split themselves into two groups of leaders and followers; two partners can’t do both. Before practicing the rumba, Castro and Rubinstein encouraged the dancers to listen to the music before moving. They then partnered up with the person across from them to begin practice. 

    Besides teaching the dance moves themselves, Castro and Rubinstein offered tips on what would make partner dancing easier, such as finding a connection between two people and keeping a relaxed frame to feel the movement of the lead dancer. 

    “Don’t worry too much about the steps, because the steps follow,” Castro explained. “If your posture and your mechanics are not right, then the steps are going to be either difficult or it’s not going to be correct. And once it’s not correct, your partner will sense that, and both of you will be lost.”

    He and Rubinstein demonstrated how leaders should turn their partners for part of the rumba where two people no longer hold each other by both arms, but one. They emphasized the importance of communication and trust between partners, even asking the followers to practice closing their eyes so they could be led by their partners.

    “Based on the conversation I had with most of the attendees,” Castro reported, “everybody was happy. And a couple of ladies said, ‘This is the first time I danced with my husband, and we didn’t argue about it.’”

    What Castro and Rubinstein emphasized most about social dancing was that it is supposed to be fun. They told students no to worry too much about making the wrong moves, but to focus on enjoying the dance itself.

    “I was really excited,” Rubinstein said, “because everyone was excited, and everyone came here just to have fun.”

  • Library hosts Bingo with a Disney twist

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    Library teen volunteer Jake Chan (standing) checks a Bingo card while teen librarian Jasmine Riel (right) talks with the players.

    In order to keep kids and teens occupied during the summer, the township library hosts several weekly events aimed at children and teenagers.

    One of them was Disney Bingo on July 9, an activity open to students in grade six through 12. 

    “Some things only middle schoolers are interested in, or there are some things that only high schoolers are interested in, but I do find that Disney, across the board, is a pretty loved theme or topic that kids and teens just love in general,” said teen librarian Jasmine Riel.

    Bingo was broken into two rounds with cards that had the titles of Disney and Pixar movies in each square. The library version of the game also involved trivia. Instead of just movie titles called out to the players, they got a clue from which they figured out a title.

    “I wanted to do Bingo to give away prizes,” Riel noted. “Giving away prizes is always fun. But also I wanted to make it a little bit more tricky. So instead of just obviously saying the movies and having them cross it out, I did hints. So I kind of made them use their brain a little bit.” 

    Clues included clips from Disney songs, movie stills, scrambled titles, character silhouettes, fill-in-the-blank letters and movie plots described in haikus or emojis. 

    “I like testing their knowledge,” Riel explained, “but also like the feeling of success when they’re like, ‘Yes, I know that one. Oh, but I don’t have it.’ There’s just a lot of emotions that kind of erupt throughout the program, which makes it more of a fun experience, an interesting experience.” 

    A mix of old and newer Disney films was selected for answers, so players would be challenged but also have the ability to find answers for films more familiar to them. When one of the players got Bingo, teen library volunteers would read their answers. 

    Jake Chan was one of them.

    “It went great as always, with Jasmine running it,” he noted. “It was a good time; I had a good time. I was one off from Bingo. But, you know, it’s how the cookie crumbles. But looks like everyone had a good time, and that’s what matters.”

    Two bins contained one prize each for tiers one and two. Tier-one prizes were larger items wrapped in red paper and gold ribbons to surprise the winners. Tier-two prizes included Disney-themed pens and multi-colored hair bows with Mickey or Minnie ears attached, all unwrapped so winners could choose based on their preferences.

    Six tier-one prizes were opened at the completion of the second Bingo round: a water bottle with Stitch from “Lilo and Stitch”; a Winnie the Pooh figural night light; a “Toy Story” mug; a Mickey Mouse Funko Pop; a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle of Tigger from “Winnie the Pooh”; and an adventure book, a blank replica of the scrapbook made by the characters in “Up.”

    Bingo winners could use them for their own memories and photos.

  • Book sale raises funds for library

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    Shoppers look over choices at one of six days of sales this month, all sponsored by the Friends of the Cherry Hill Public Library.

    The Friends of the Cherry Hill Public Library recently hosted six days of book sales that began on July 7 and raised funds for the facility.

    The Friends also supports the library – and itself – through donations, volunteer services and memberships. But the largest fundraisers are the library’s annual book sales.

    Tierney Miller is the library director.

    “We’re really appreciative of the Friends of the Library,” she said. “There’s so many great volunteers that we have … It (the sale) is really a joint effort. The volunteers from the Friends do all the sorting all year long, so that we can have these sales, and then they do so much work to help the sale get off the ground in conjunction with the staff.” 

    The book sales are held three times a year, one each in spring, summer and fall. Most items for the July sales were donations collected by the Friends, though some of the titles were among those removed from circulation, usually because there are more copies than necessary. 

    The Friends collects and sorts donations of books, audiobooks, CDs and DVDs that are set up for shoppers on the lower level of the library. Friends’ members got early access to the July sales on the first two days.

    “The sale is going wonderfully,” noted Marlyn Calitan, president of the Friends of the Library, “and we really appreciate the township putting their effort behind it and coming out and buying our books.” 

    Books for adults from all genres – fiction, cookbooks and nonfiction, among others – were set up in the conference center, CDs and DVDs were on the lower level and children’s books were placed in the Joyce Alexander Walker Multicultural Room. 

    “The materials are a really, really diverse array of things,” Miller pointed out. “We have tons of music CDs … everything from ’80s pop to classical music to modern, newer things. And the books, just all night, I’ve seen people coming up with brand new hardcovers, and then a book that might be decades old.” 

    Library staff and volunteers from the Friends worked the sale, helping customers by holding large piles of books at the checkout table, counting the items and assisting them with loading shopping bag books. While donations had been collected throughout the year, they continued to arrive at the library during the sale.

    Rob Schumacher is a member of the Friends and one of the volunteers who worked the sale.

    “Once that book sale sign goes out in front,” he said, “cars just pull up in the back with more donations of books. We appreciate that as well.” 

    The next book sale will be held from Nov. 11 through Nov. 16.

  • Township’s new Roy Rogers gives $500 to library

    Years after its heyday in South Jersey and around the country, a new Roy Rogers restaurant opened to anxious crowds in Cherry Hill on June 25.

    Lines wrapped around the front of the building and overflowed onto the right lane of Haddonfield Road, where fans eagerly awaited their burgers, fries and chicken tenders. The restaurant hosted a ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. and opened to the public half an hour later.

    The ribbon cutting incuded remarks from company officials and a welcome from Mayor Dave Fleisher, along with an American flag raised by the JROTC during the singing of the national anthem. The Roy Rogers company then presented the township library a check for $500, a donation to the community it left in the 1990s, according to the company itself. 

    Hope Holroyd is the library’s public relations and marketing coordinator.

    “They had contacted us a few months ago, saying that the opening was coming up,” she recounted. “They were starting to work on their advertising and marketing for it. And then, as part of the opening, they just wanted to provide a local donation and they reached out to us first.”

    The library was the only local recipient of a donation from the fast-food chain, and members of its staff and the Friends of the Library organization attended the opening to accept the restaurant’s check. Also there were library leaders Tierney Miller, director; chief of operations Jennie Purcell; board of trustees member Kathy Judge; and Friends of the Library president Marlyn Kalitan.

    The fast-food company’s ceremonial check featured a giant company logo and background drawings featuring the hat of Roy Rogers and a cactus. The chain was founded in 1968 and named for Rogers, a cowboy movie actor and singer.

    “It was hot, but it was really fun to see everybody come out,” Holroyd noted of the restaurant opening. “The community was really excited, and that’s one thing we were excited to see, the amount of people who were just lined up and excited for the food and cheered us on for getting the donation.” 

    In addition to the monetary contribution, the company also gave the library prizes for its children’s summer reading program, including wooden tokens that can be exchanged for free ice cream with a purchase and achievement certificates acknowledging a child’s success in maintaining reading skills during the academic off-season.

    “It was just a really nice welcome back to the town and everything,” Holroyd noted, “because they hadn’t had a restaurant in town for a really long time.”

  • Library occupies teens with after-hours programs

    Summer at the township library can be appealing to teens and young adults, who have more time to read and participate in activities outside school extracurriculars.

    Among the offerings they’re attracted to is the library’s after-hours programs, held about three to four times a year.

    “They’re really special because they’re after the library’s closed,” explained Jasmine Riel, teen services librarian, of the programs. “It’s just us and a couple staff members and it creates a very unique experience for them in the library.”

    While some of the programs are planned by Riel, most are created and planned by the library’s teen advisory board, an exclusive group of volunteers who have to apply and interview for their place on the board. The most recent after-hours program, on June 27, was a themed escape room planned by member Amelia Siegel with a certain movie in mind. 

    “She came up with it entirely herself,” Riel noted. “So she planned it. She wanted to do it. She said to me, ‘Jasmine, I want to do the next after-hours program and I want it to be “Hunger Games” themed …’ So she planned everything herself.” 

    The escape room was originally planned for April, but put off because of construction on the library’s upper level, where the children and teen sections are located. Riel worked on finding the June date so the teens didn’t have to wait for fall.

    “We knew the ‘Hunger Games’ would be a big hit,” Riel noted, “especially with the new movie coming out (in 2026). And especially over the summer, when teens and kids have more time to read, the most popular series, like ‘The Hunger Games,’ ‘Twilight’ and stuff like that tend to be checked out all the time.” 

    Inspired by Suzanne Collins’ “Hunger Games” books, the escape room had a variety of puzzles with answers that involved trivia and knowledge from the novels. If accurate, each answer gave the two teams a new clue. 

    “We know teens love those books,” Riel pointed out. “So it’s pretty easy to create an escape room that will hook them and make them want to come.”

    After completing a puzzle, the teams found a volunteer to check their answers so they could get clues for the next one. Puzzles included searches of words and names inspired by the industries in the “Hunger Games” series.

    “She (Siegel) designed it in a way so that they had to complete as many of the puzzles around the library as possible to be able,” Riel said, “to get the most clues to be able to solve the final puzzle.”

    Siegel tested her escape room with friends in advance to ensure its difficulty level was appropriate and that it would engage participants. Riel had prizes ready for the participants at the end, including necklaces and stickers inspired by “The Hunger Games.”

    Riel emphasized the importance of and impact of teens planning their own programs.

    “It’s different when a teen runs a program for teens, as opposed to me as an adult running a program for teens …” she observed. “There is a very special connection between a teen leader and teen participants that I really try to embrace and create opportunities for that kind of special connection as much as possible,”  

    The next after-hours program will take place in August and be themed around the movie “Night at the Museum.”