Applause

Readers rewarded

This year more than 1,000 kids participated in the Everett Public Library’s Summer Reading Program, earning prize rewards including free pizza, bowling, roller skating, and other prizes donated by Everett businesses.

The 2004 program had 436 kids, earning all of the prizes and each reading 100 books or 100 timed, 30-minute reading sessions. These finishers receive the Mayor’s Award, and were honored at the Mayor’s Award Ceremony on Aug. 26 at the Civic Auditorium.

Mayor Ray Stephanson was there to personally greet each child, as library director Mark Nesse presented their award certificates on the stage. The following is a list of kids who received the Mayor’s Award this year.

Anders Aarhus, Mustafa Abdulilah, Meeko Ackley, Ben Adams, Marie Adams, Matthew Adams, Assraa Al-Alaki, Eman Al-Bahathly, Nawras Al-Bahathly, Raheel Al-Bahathly, Steven Albert, Katerina Aleksandrova, Nora Aleksandrova, Joe Al-Faham, Ali Al-Ghazali, Eman Al-Ghazali, Alaa Al-Harab, Nada Al-Harab, Yass Al-Isheeqer, Arielle Alix, Mark Ronnell Alix, Trevor Allred, Ressel Al-Maamar, Ali Al-Mezal, Aseel Al-Samarraie, Chloe Ames, Brandon Anderson, Christopher Anderson, Mark Anderson, Reona Anderson, Ryan Anderson, Grace Andrews, Felecia Armitage, Ben Ashton, Rebecca Ashton, Jeriah Avellaneda, Mariah Avellaneda.

Anthony Baker, Cassandra Baker, Mitchell Baker, Amanda Banez, John Banez, Emma Barnes, Anna Barrett, Katie Bartlett, Ruslan Bats, Grant Beckett, Lauren Bellrichard, Stephen Bellrichard, Evan Bernhoft, Joel Bervell, Michael Bervell, Rachel Bervell, Rajpreet Bhangoo, Sunpreet Bhangoo, Serena Bircher, Tianna Bircher, Victoria Bishop, Alex Bittinger, Andrew Black, Marissa Black, Amber Blackmon, Brian Blackmon, Christina Blackmon, Joshua Blackmon, Staci Blackmon, Benjamin Blake, Josiah Blake, David Blakeslee, Patty Blakeslee, Emmanuel Boateng, Lucy Boateng, Lauren Boggie, Kelly Bounxayavong, Linna Bounxayavong, Cheriden Boyett, C.J. Boyett, Kina Boyett, Meagen Brazil, Jasmine Breen-Young, Abigail Briggs, Micah Briggs, Emmi Brigman, Janie Brigman, Elizabeth Brown, Anna Bui, Anny Bui, David Bui, Jake Bush, Maira Bush, Matthew Bush, McKenna Buss, Amy Butler, Jolene Butler, Sierra Butler, Paul Butok.

Gabriella Caferro, Kelsey Calvert, Madeline Cameron, Brittany Carlson, Katie Carsten, L.J. Carsten, Katherine Chanwiratana, Zoe Clerico, Tessa Cobb, Anthony Cornelius, Alana Culver, Carston Curd.

Amanda Dahl, Annie Dang, Eric Dau, Jessica Dau, Julie Dau, Garrett David, Andrew Delinsky, Richard Delinsky, David Demuria, Edelia Demuria, Michelle Dinh, Kira Dorst, Teralyn Dorst, Chelsea Dowdell, Hannah Dowdell.

Elizabeth Earley, Rebecca Earley, Ben Eastin, Chris Eastin, Katie Eastin, Curtis Eayrs, Anthony Eddy, Tom Eddy, Shawn Elder, Danny Ellis, Alex Engel, Amber Erickson, Ryan Erickson.

Renee Fahrenkrug, Taylor Fahrenkrug, Katie Falkner, Alyssa Feller, Kobe Felt, Liam Fitzgerald, John Floyd, Joseph Floyd, Meredith Floyd, Arieal Foley, Randee Fosburgh, Jillian Freeman.

Amanda Garcia, Madison Gartner, Meghan Gartner, Benjamin Gaston, Renee Geck, James Gendreau, Kenver Girn, Griffin Gish, Baylee Goodland, Hollis Gordon, Maxfield Green, Kristi Greene, Ellie Griffis, Logan Griffis, Viktoriya Grishchenko, Kirill Gritsenko, Alexandra Gubbels, Paula Guerrero.

Medissa Habul, Melissa Habul, Mischa Hall, Derick Harmke, Sonja Harrower, Kaitlyn Hartford, Cole Havener, Karendeep Hehar, Paramdeep Hehar, Amy Heins, Anna Heins, Erika Heins, Linda Heins, Kayla Heman, Nicole Hendrickson, Sarah Henry, Hazel Hesseln, Ashley Hicks, Jessica Hill, Madeline Hoof, Kastle Huffaker, Julia Hurt, David Hysmith, Molly Hysmith.

Jasmine Idris, Nalmes Idris, Unes Idris, David Inglish, Samantha Irwin.

Cooper James, Andrew Jasper, Megan Jenkins, Lindsay Jilk, Stephanie Kammerzell, Alex Karabut, Gurpreet Kaur, Madison Keaty, Arielle Kelton, Ryland Kelton, MacKenzie Kermoade, Josie Kies, Melody Kies, Ray Kim, Alex Kirpach, Nicholas Kopp, Rebecca Kopp, Thomas Kopp, Leana Kravchuk, Yelena Kravchuk, Ryan Kuchinski, Victoria Kulchitskiy, Vita Kulchitskiy.

Crea Lacey, Thomas Lacey Jr., Tai Lam, Autumn Lambright, True Lambright, Melanie Lane, Timofey Lapatsin, Cathy Le, Brandon Lee, Cameron Lee, Corey Lee, Rachel Lee, Joshua LeMaster, Kevin Lieu, Kyle Lieu, Abra Lindstrom, Elijah Lindstrom, Yan Lopatin, Aaron Loth, Aryin Lucero, Claire Lunde, Mary Lunde, Taylor Luschei.

Candice Magbag, Jeanne Magbag, Michelle Magbag, Alison Maher, Madeline Maher, Chloe Maier, Marjie Maier, Mirka Mandich, Annie Manhardt, Brian Marassi, Kaitlyn Martin, Roy McBean, Alyschia McDowell, Amanda McDowell, Sean McDowell, Ashley McKinnon, Shannon McNeil, Cody Mearns, Olga Mezgova, Svetlana Mezgova, Jeffrie Miller, Tara Miller, Daniel Mitts, Geena Mitts, Max Moon, Joshua Moran, Sean Moran, Nathan Mori, Sammy Mori, Zackary Mori, Sydney Morris, Brendan Moses, Cosmina Muresan, Radu Muresan.

Abigail Nava, Jacob Nelson, Amy Nguyen, Elizabeth Nguyen, Emily Nguyen, Minhtam Nguyen, Nancy Nguyen, Victor Nguyen, McKenna North, Alena Northrop.

William O’Connor, Kingsley Okocha, Jadon Olson, Ryan Olson, Autumn Owens.

Michael Packer, Harpreet Parhar, Steven Parks, Chelsea Perry, Kendra Perry, Matthew Perry, Mikaela Perry, Debbie Peterson, Steven Peterson, Hannah Pierson, Alicia Pintler, Blake Pintler, Heather Poelzer, Hannah Pohl, Marsha Poischbeg, Emma Pountain, Peter Preston, Rachel Preston, Mariya Primachik, Alla Prishko, Anna Prishko, Olga Prishko, Svetlana Prishko, Demi Prokorym, Amy Purdy, Frederica Putrya, Lyudmila Putrya.

Elizabeth Rabon, Emmakate Ramsey, Michael Ramsey, Adrian Rattanatai, Berit Reisenauer, Rachael Renkins, Carson Reykdal, Chase Robinett, Paige Robinett, Megan Robins, Ryan Robins, Nicole Rohlinger, Scott Rohlinger, Sebastian Ruelas, Bailey Rufer, Taylor Rufer.

Andrea Sadowski, Navjot Sangha, Anna Savchik, Olga Savchik, Yuliya Savchik, Nicky Scheldt, Sarah Schireman, Rachel Schwark, Ben Seaberg, Shelah Shackelford, Talitha Shackelford, Anupreet Sidhu, Michael Siew, Stephen Siew, Heena Singh, Nathan Sjoquist, Timothy Sjoquist, Caroline Skalley, Brittani Skurok, Nova Smedley, Marlaina Snavely, Teixeira Snavely, Brendan Soelling, Stefanie Soelling, Caitlyn Sohlberg-Dunn, Ruslan Stakhnyuk, Timofey, Stakhnyuk, Lucas Stambaugh, Mikhail Stepanchuk, Vladimir Stepanchuk, Stephanie Stetson, Katie Stewart, Laura Stoller, Tudor Streza, Abby Stringer, Kate Stringer, Emily Summers, Alina Suyurov, Anton Suyurov, Elena Svob, Mikayla Svob, Anna Swatosh, Luke Swatosh, Madison Sweeney.

Ahmad Taher, Dmitriy Tarasyuk, Irina Tarasyuk, Ivan Tarasyuk, Maksim Tarasyuk, Nataliya Tarasyuk, Tabitha Tarter, Andrew Tat, Alyssa Tetreault, Nadia Todurova, Billy Tomaras, Crystal Tomaras, CJ Toor, Mandip Toor, Charlie Tran, Dennis Tran, Anik Traversie, Christine Truong, Ashley Turcott.

Kara VanSlyck, Ryan VanSlyck, Rachel Varner, Shaylee Vigil, Cynthia Vo, Vietkhanh Vu.

Elizabeth Wagner, Reiko Wagner, Sheila Wagner, Elizabeth Webster, Ali Weir, Bethany Welch, Bryn Wells-Edwards, Isaac Westlund, Samantha Whalen, Gregory Whitaker, Tierra Whitaker, Andrew Whitehouse, Adam Whitly, Alexa Wied, Marlena Wied, Justen Williams, Keeley Williams, Mechelle Williams, Patrisha Williams, Serena Williams, Andrew Wilner, Alex Wilson, Ali Wilson, Elaynee Wilson, Andrew Winecoff, Brock Wolitarsky, Myrinda Wolitarsky, Quezan Wong, Julia Woodbury, Kenneth Wunpheng, Nicole Zahl.

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