Edgecombe County Memorial Library’s The Summer Reading Program wrapped up its final show last Friday with Pamlico Joe and Cleanwater Flo doing a performance at Edgecombe Community College’s McIntyre Auditorium.

It was an exciting performance that had some of the children dancing in the aisles, as they sang along with them. Quietly, without the children noticing, they also learned important environmental lessons about not littering, not polluting the coastal waters and the children even performed a song about the Pelecypods, the class taxonomic name for clams.

Top readers honored during the program included:

(ages 0-5) Gabria Savage, first place and Demetrius McDowell, second place; (ages 6-9) Sara Tompkins, first place and Marc Hathaway, second place; (ages 10 and up) Daniel Lee Crandall, first place and Christopher Marker, second place.

Together, these six children, as a group, totaled over 322 hours of reading time.

This performance was sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Edgecombe County Memorial Library.

Other sponsors for the Summer Reading Program included the Rotary Club, the Pizza Inn, Betty Nesmith of the Unusual Shoppe, Food Lion, the Dew family, McDonald’s, Piggly Wiggly, Ace Home Center and Carlisle Funeral Home.

There are many, many volunteers who enriched and made possible the summer reading.

Paula Lumb is the children’s librarian at Edgecombe County Memorial Library.