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Oshawa library has plenty of prizes for teen readers this summer

Summer may be all about getting out and enjoying the outdoors to some, but the Oshawa Public Library has different plans – kicking off the season with a summer teen reading program which officially begins on the 5th of July.

To join the program, teens in the City of Oshawa have to drop by at any of the library’s four branches to get a game card, which allows them to score points by reading books, magazines, even check out other forms of media like CDs, DVDs, and video games. The contest runs until the 29^th of August, with extra points still up for grabs by joining library activities and writing reviews on books and other media from the Oshawa Public Library.

Teens can then trade their filled up game cards to a bunch of neat prizes, including tickets to Wonderland and an iPod Touch.

But that’s not all. The library is also holding a YouTube video contest that’s open to kids ages 13 to 19. The contest, which runs from the 2^nd of July until the 31^st of August, invites local youths to create and upload videos of them reading and mentioning “Oshawa Public Libraries.”

According to statistics, a person in Canada is in need of blood every 60 seconds. In an effort to address that dire need, the City of Oshawa and Lakeridge Health are organizing a blood donation battle – the first of its kind in the city. The two factions will be competing against each other to see which side can draw in the most blood donations during the months of May and June.

It may be for a good cause, but both sides are taking this competition seriously.

Oshawa Mayor John Gray is apparently excited to get the ball rolling, and is busy making preparations for the event.

He and Lakeridge Health CEO and president Kevin Empey have a standing bet: if the City wins, Empey will be in charging of mowing grass at the city’s parks and city hall. Mayor Gray is so confident of winning that he even joked that Empey will have a lot of mowing to do, since he’ll make sure to locate the weediest parks for him.

If Lakeridge Health wins on the other hand, Empey will have the mayor and his staff serve meals to Lakeridge Health Oshawa’s patients. The hospital even has a dish cloth and scrubs with the mayor’s name on them, Empey taunted back.

Judy Compton, who works with the Canadian Blood Services, is excited to see both sides ready to pitch in for a worthy cause.