Water Wars has kids from all over Platte County getting soaked

Mark DeLap
Posted 8/9/22

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Water Wars has kids from all over Platte County getting soaked

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WHEATLAND – As the grand finale for their summer reading program, the Platte County Library hosted a Water Wars which drew kids from Guernsey, Chugwater, Wheatland and Glendo.

There were also some kids who were vacationing and happened upon the annual event. The temperatures were hovering around 90 degrees and there was not a better day that the library staff could have picked to run this event.

It was a two-day event, run on both Tuesday and Thursday of last week. There were kiddie pools, wading pools, super soakers, slip and slides, sprinklers, water balloons and the Wheatland Volunteer Fire Department even participated, bringing their water cannon to the war.

Julie Henion, director of the Platte County Library also invited community leaders to the party and Platte County Clerk Malcolm Ervin and his wife, Bailey, advertising manager of the Platte County Record-Times both agreed that it was fun and it was wet.

“We started this in 2008,” Henion said. “We expect between 80 and 100 kids. The firemen are excellent as are my workers and I give them a lot of credit, but the biggest challenge for me is getting everyone on the same page as far as schedules go. This year we had professionals who came and we are just going to let the kids hammer them.”

Grand prizes for a point system throughout the summer were given on both days, Tuesday’s prize was a hoverboard and Thursday’s prize was a drone.

“Every week if they attend, they get a ticket,” Henion said. “If they turn in their homework they get a ticket and if they do the scavenger hunt they get a ticket. So they’ve had eight weeks now. They can put their tickets in for the drawings.”

The event was held last Tuesday at 10 a.m. and Thursday at 1 p.m. Both days had plenty of sunshine and warm temperatures. Not to mention gallons and gallons of water.