By Melanie Price

LEWISTON -- Despite some rainy weather, kids and adults flocked to the Lewiston City Office to sing along with a little yellow duck named Quackers on Thursday night.

Quackers is an oversized puppet run by ventriloquist Sue Randelman. Randelman, director of the North Logan library, performed for an audience of over 75 people as part of National Library Week. The event was advertised at the elementary school for ages up to fifth grade.

Randelman said she and Quackers perform twice a week in North Logan with an average audience of 200 people. She is considering upping her performances to four times a week to accommodate the crowd.

"I always knew I could do ventriloquism," Randelman said. "The more I did it, the better I got." She began when she was young and has been doing it ever since. She added that ventriloquism is a skill you are born with.

The visit from Quackers was only one of the many activities sponsored by the Lewiston Library. Librarian Vella Durrant said that in addition to library week, the library hosts a monthly merit badge clinic for the boy scouting program, provides a location for getting flu shots, has a volunteer tax service which helps over 100 people a year, and puts on a Halloween carnival.

Durrant also does story time with a craft activity for preschool children on Wednesdays at 10 a.m.

"I think the library is really the focus point of our town," Durrant said.

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