North Bellmore library celebrates grandparents

Lucy Gorsky helped her grandson, 3-year-old Ethan Lefkowitz, with crafts.

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Children’s librarian Jane Sullivan read “Hello Good Bye Window,” by Norton Juster and Chris Raschka, to the children and their grandparents.

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Jen Kushnick and Eileen Lutwick, from left, listened to stories with their respective grandchildren, 4-year-old Ellis Caplinger and 3-year-old Matthew Lutwick.

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Robin Burns worked on a project with her grandson, 3-year-old Ryan Lay.

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About a dozen grandparents and their grandchildren participated in the North Bellmore Public Library program.

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North Bellmore children recently celebrated some of the most important people in their lives at the library: their grandparents.

North Bellmore Public Library officials organized a special program on Sunday, Sept. 7, in honor of Grandparents’ Day. The holiday has been celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day since President Jimmy Carter declared it a national holiday in 1978.

Marian McQuade, a West Virginia homemaker who died in 2008, founded Grandparents’ Day. She wanted to help lonely older adults living in nursing homes, according to grandparents-day.com. She also hoped to persuade grandchildren to tap the wisdom and heritage that their grandparents could provide.

At the North Bellmore library program, children’s librarian Jane Sullivan read stories to children and their grandparents. Participants then did some crafting, creating mobiles that spoke to the grandparent-grandchild bond.