The library’s First Friday event on April 5 was a huge success with Boy and Bean, performing songs from the 20s, 30s and 40s. It was great to start up with the monthly programs again. Library patrons love it!

To celebrate National Library Week (April 14 – 20)  and Poetry Month (April), we tried something new on April 18. We had a Poetry SLAM in our community room. Katie Murphy organized this event which turned out to be a BIG success! Scott Poole, from the Live Wire Radio program was our guest emcee. There were over 40 entries in three categories: poets under 16, poets over 16 and readers of non-original poems. The Friends of the Library sponsored the entire event, prizes, refreshments, honoraria, etc. We are already making plans for next year, but it won’t be held in our community room — it was too small!

Monica showed the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie to families on April 13. On April 20, a community member used the community room to show a movie about endangered tigers. The community room is being used for many purposes.

The Oregon Library Association held its annual convention with the Washington Library Association in Vancouver on April 25 and 26. Maureen Skinner, Chris Wilhelmi, Monica Smith and I attended. It was fun and interesting. I got a lot of information about creating library programs.

We honored Kathy Draine’s 16 years of service as Reference Librarian with a staff breakfast on April 30. We will miss Kathy very much, but we are fortunate to have filled her position with a very capable Reference Librarian in Maureen Skinner.

Maureen Skinner (left) and Kathy Draine (right)