Thank you for picking up a copy of District Discovery! In these pages, you will learn more about three of Pikes Peak Library District's biggest annual initiatives: Summer Adventure, Mountain of Authors, and the Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium.
Early literacy is extremely important to the future success of an individual and the community they live in, and Summer Adventure provides fun incentives for reading and other activities. As you will learn inside this magazine, sometimes that future success includes working for PPLD and cultivating a love of learning in a younger generation.
Those young readers can also grow up to be authors, including fifth-generation Coloradan Randi Samuelson- Brown. She is the keynote speaker at this year’s Mountain of Authors event, which will also feature about 30 other local authors.
This year’s Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium will include an examination of the impact made by two former heads of PPLD, Margaret Reid and Kenneth Dowlin. I am honored to follow in their footsteps to lead an organization dedicated to improving the lives of the community we serve.
Teona Shainidze-Krebs
Chief Executive Officer
Pikes Peak Library District
