The Historic Bench Fire of 2010

above: dramatic photoshop recreation of bench fire

It was a very good sunny day at WPK Library. 2 old guys were
sitting on one of the WPK benches. The other guy was smoking
a cigarette and he was almost finished with his cigarette. Then,
he thought he was finished with his cigarette. He threw the
cigarette to the side of the bench into a big pile of dried leaves
boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The fire started! Stephanie burst into
the library and yelled "The bench is on fire!" She said "How could
that bench get on fire?"
The librarians Sara and Lanham were running in and out of the
library with buckets of water trying to put out the fire. Lyndsy
couldn't because she had to watch the people- if not, people could
just burst behind the desk.
5 minutes later the firefighters came and dragged the hose to the
bench. One of them had an axe in his hand. He wasn't hitting the
bench but he was ready to.
The crowd was gathering around: Jesus, Sara, Lanham and the kids
were looking at the fire being put out.
That was the Great Bench Fire of 2010, it was cool!!!!!!!

reported by Jesus N

Historic first chess club meeting

Breaking news from WPK library!

Breaking news!

Sam and Jorge B caught in unbearable chess staredown at chess club tonight.

Ace reporter Jesus N is refining his startling investigation into the Great Bench Fire of 2010. Jesus is also working on a biography of the library staff.

Bergina in on vacation from Wheeler School and prepping our new Bedtime Stories section for the parenting collection. She'll definitely be playing softball this year.

Stephanie, who attends Cooley Health and Sciences, is getting ready to run her first art class at WPK. She's going to introduce pastels as the first medium.

Leilani has a new beagle puppy.

Upcoming Science Fair at Alan Shawn Feinstein Broad Street Elementary School

Danny and Damian are leading the pack in their investigation into how water changes when it's frozen. Their investigation is well organized and their scientific method is thoroughly discussed in the first draft of their question, method and hypothesis. Watch this page to find out exactly what happens to water molecules when they freeze.

New Playground coming to WPK Community Center

Nuno and Jesus attended the open kids' meeting at WPKCC to give input on the design for the new playground going in on June at our community center. We'll post the date when the community comes together to build it. Call Fran at the Washington Park Community Center for more details.

Library workers news

Lanham has some art in the library fundraiser and also has not been cleaning her house enough. Jackie went home early this week to go pick up her family's new puppy Milo.