Services
On April 15th, we had our Grand Opening of the Sandy Seed Library. 62 people attended. Staff member Susie Jenkins, and a large number of volunteers and sponsors made this new program in the library start out great. Come check out our seed library! “It’ll grow on you”.
Programs
Special
15 Teens attended our Teen Paint Nite in April.
30 teens attended our terrarium building workshop on the Sandy Seed Library Grand opening day.
We had a talk by local author Mike Jordan. 13 people came to listen to him speak about the writing process.
61 people came to our Family Friendly Poetry Slam! at Sandy. The winning poets were:
Honorable mentions for each category:
Age 8-13 – Greta Freet with “Celebrating My Soccer Game”
Age 14-18 – Sayge Noakes with “When It’s Cold Out”
Adult – Phyllis Joy Martin with “Ode to Johnny Appleseed”
18 people attended our Open Mic Poetry Night at Hoodland! A great time was had by readers and listeners alike.
13 people attended our Adult Paint Nite with Melissa Lawrence.
Dia de los Ninos was a huge success! Once again planned by Katie Murphy with members of the Hispanic Community, it ranged throughout the entire Library and outdoors for 2 hours. About 300 people came to this event.
Ongoing
Sandy Kids Club had 57 parents and kids. Hoodland Kids Art Club had 7 parents and kids attend.
Storytimes: Preschool 60 parents and kids, Wee Ones 152 parents and kids, Hoodland 56 parents and kids.
60 teens attended Game Factory Coding Club, 37 attended Makerspace, 51 attended Anime Club.
100 people attended Library Coffee House to hear Eric Kallio play slide and finger-style guitar. 5 kids participated in the craft.
34 Adults and 24 kids attended our ESOL English classes. We had 22 volunteer helpers.
8 people attended the Hoodland Bookgroup to discuss the Book True Grit by Charles Portis.
Outreach
We attended 4 Kindergarten Roundups in April – Sandy Grade, Naas, Firwood, and Kelso. We talked with 24 parents and 27 kids.
Vista Apartments now regularly has about 4 parents attending the weekly program for kids! We went 3 out of 4 weeks in April, and had 60 kids attend to do literacy and/or STEM based activities.
Sandy Library staff and teen volunteers had a booth at the first Mt Hood Farmers Market on April 28th. One staff person and 4 volunteers talked with 71 people, and checked out 85 seeds from the Sandy Seed Library. We issued one new library card!
Buildings
The Hoodland Library got tagged for RFID on April 30th! It took 8 staff members and 14 volunteers one full 8 hour day to tag most of the 10,000 items that Hooldand has on their shelves.
