In honor of National Library week, the City of Edmonds Library Board had an open house Sunday, and one of the events was the awarding of bikes — donated by the local Masonic Lodge — to winners of a reading contest. The winners had drawn a picture of ...

For every 10 books or 1000 pages a child reads, they earn one chance to win a bike through a random drawing. Since 2007, the Sultan-Monroe Masonic Lodge #160.

For every 10 books or 1000 pages a child reads, they earn one chance to win a bike through a random drawing. Since 2007, the Sultan-Monroe Masonic Lodge #160 has been donating two bikes (one for boys and one for girls) each year to the Sultan Library ...

Wes, 9, and Maddie, 7, Hilton, of Monroe, search through books at the Monroe Library on Tuesday afternoon. The Hiltons both signed up for the kids summer reading program at the library during a visit with their grandmother, Terri Hilton. "We love to ...

Three students at Hawthorne Elementary School were awarded brand new bikes at a ceremony today for reading extra books throughout the school year. This year marks the 8th annual “Books for Bikes” program funded through local area Masonic lodges.

The bikes were purchased by the Port Townsend Masonic Lodge from Walmart in Sequim, which provided an 18 percent discount on the bikes and supplied a helmet to each winner. This is the program's third year, and includes a $400 cash contribution to the ...