Kids Programs
Special
Teddy Bear Sleepover – Sandy 55 kids and parents, Hoodland 11.  The kids had a great time at the storytime, their Teddy Bears had a great night in the library!

Ongoing
Saturday Afternoon Kids Club – Sandy 45 kids and parents , Hoodland 8

Storytimes – Preschool 110 kids and parents, Wee Ones 118, Hoodland 50

Vista Apartments – 57 kids attended to do literacy and STEM activities.

Wy’East Artisans Art Club – 41 kids and parents

Read to the Dog – 6 kids read to Anada in January (Ananda was sick one week)

Teen Programs
Special

 

Paint Nite – 19 teens came to paint with Library Advisory Board Secretary Melissa Lawrence.

 

 

Ongoing

MakerSpace – 73 teens. 33 came to make Monster

plushies, learning how to sew stitches, and buttons.

Anime club – 61 teens. 33 came to the Cosplay event.

Game Factory – 40 teens. 15 came to the special App Lab.

Adult Programs
Special
‘Seedy Saturday’ Seed Swap – 93 people came to swap seeds at Antfarm, ask questions of Master Gardeners, get recipes from Stephanie Stuart from the Oregon Food Bank, and listen to music provided by Sharon Sandgren & Friends. We held a seed packet stuffing party before the event that 9 volunteers came to.

 

 

 

 

Library Coffee House – 80 people came to listen to Chihuahua Desert play their Americana, Country, Folk, Rock & Hispanic music.

Paint Nite – 19 people attended.

Meditation for regular people – 15 people attended

Ongoing
ESOL Tutoring – 43 tutoring sessions with 48 people learning English took place in January.  Numbers of students continue to rise!  We are now doing larger group tutoring sessions two days a week that then break up into small groups.   This style appears to be working well.

Book Group – Men’s 6 people came to discuss Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Women’s 5 people came to discuss Peaches for Father Francis, by Joanne Harris, Mystery 11 people came to discuss Private Vegas by James Patterson, and Hoodland 10 people came to discuss American Fire by Monica Hesse.

Photography Group – 11 people came to

Public Notary – Hoodland 4

Art Exhibits

 

See the mixed media work of Susan B Schenk of Wilsonville at the Hoodland Library until April 10th.

 

 

 

Also at Hoodland is a new quilt by the Piecemakers.

Meetings
On January 3rd there was a special meeting of LDAC to give input on the possible amendment to the Master Order of the Library District.  LDAC members and citizens spoke about the possibilities, and expressed many concerns.  On their January 18th meeting, the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) heard testimony and announced that they had negotiated with the City of Gladstone to change their settlement agreement to allow for more time to make changes to the Master Order.  The BCC also announced their intention to create a task force to work on the issue.