“Make Waves at the Altus Public Library,” the theme for this year’s summer program will be wrapping up this week with two great programs for teens and families.

On Tuesday, July 20, at 2 p.m., the library will conduct a workshop for teens, “Journaling Your Experiences” with Luann Sewell Waters of Wynnewood.

On Thursday, at 2 p.m., Critter Tales will be coming to the library. Critter Tales is the place that “brings the Wild to Life.” So get set to meet some wild critters.

“Journaling Your Experiences” is open to all teens and is free. Keeping a diary has always been a teen right of passage but in today’s world, journaling takes on a completely new meaning. A person’s journal maybe about everyday happenings or it may just be about an exercise program or travel. With journaling, you are only limited by your imagination. There are art journals, travel journals, scrapbook journals and collage journals just to name a few. Journaling is about anything and everything. No longer are we limited to “Dear Diary.”

Luann Sewell Waters is a conservation and environment educator with over twenty five years experience teaching in workshops and seminars across the United States. A native Oklahoman, Luann has a Masters in Science Education from Oklahoma State University. She has done television programs, seminars and workshops on wild game and Dutch oven cooking throughout the United States. Luann teaches college credit courses in Pioneer Food History and Food Preparation. Now Luann is a facilitator in the Leopold Education Project and is currently the State Coordinator for LEP.

In 2009, Luann was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Association of Environmental Education.

Critter Tales is a non-profit organization created by Jennifer Lance in 2005. Jennifer has always had a passion for wildlife. As a teen, she volunteered at the Oklahoma City Zoo as a Junior Curator. In 2001, Jennifer started to work for the Oklahoma City Zoo as a volunteer and was then hired in the zoo’s education department where she stayed until 2005.

Jennifer is a member of Oklahoma Master Naturalists, and completed the Project Learning Tree Educator training program through the Oklahoma Forestry Services.