Strategic Planning – first year results on four initiatives
Create Young Readers
Stimulate Imagination
Satisfy Curiosity
Learn to Read and Write
Longest Day Parkway
242 People came by the library booth. We had the Sandy Seed Library with us to check out seed packets, handed out Summer Reading Packets, Popcorn, and played a game to win $1 and $5 off fines coupons.
Kids Programs
Special
Uke Can Do It! – 36 kids and parents attended a Ukulele Workshop to kick off Summer Reading! (Libraries Rock)
Ongoing
Storytime – Wee Ones 104 kids and parents, Preschool 66, Hoodland 58.
Wy’East Artisans Art Club – 59 kids and parents
Read to the Dog – 13 kids read to Ananda.
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Sandy 8 kids and parents, Hoodland 2. This is LEGO Club only. We are taking a Summer break on all other Saturday Afternoon Kids; Club programs.
Outreach
Schools – We visited 19 classrooms and two lunch periods, talking to 565 kids and teens to promote Summer Reading. Schools visited were: Sandy Grade School, Oregon Trail Academy, Boring Middle School, Cedar Ridge Middle School, Sandy High School.
Vista – 90 kids did literacy and STEM activities with us. We had a ‘Grocery Store’ where the kids worked on math and life skills, beginning reading challenges for the Summer Reading program, and the Wy’East Artisans came to do an art class.
Teen Programs
Special
Uke Can Do It! – 11 people attended this ukulele workshop for Teens to kick off Summer Reading (Libraries Rock!)
Ongoing
Game Factory – 21 teens
Teen Learning Garden – 14 teens attended our Field Trip to Antfarm’s Learning Garden down by Tollgate Restaurant.
Anime Club – 14 teens
MakerSpace – 11 teens
Adult Programs
Special
Uke Can Do It! – 30 people came to Hoodland for this ukulele workshop with Cinda Johnson.
Preventing Memory Loss – 8 people attended to listen to Samuel Turner present the facts surrounding the prevention of MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment) as well as ideas on how to get involved, increase personal fulfillment, and demonstrate simple but effective physical activities that help the body as well as the mind stay limber.
Wellness for Digestive Health – 7 people came to hear Genevieve White speak.
Sandy Seed Library
Container Gardening – 15 people attended this Master Gardener talk.
Volunteers – 4 volunteers met to stuff seed packets.
Ongoing
Mt Hood Farmers Market – We spoke to 154 people, checked out 40 packets of seeds, issued 3 new library cards, and gave out Summer Reading packets.
Library Coffee House – 135 people came to listen to the old time tunes of Rebecca Connor and Leon Cotter.
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) – We held 9 tutoring sessions and 3 classes, with 46 teachers, 51 learners, and 30 kids in attendance.
Paint Nite – 17 people came to paint with Melissa Lawrence.
Book Clubs – Men’s 9 to discuss My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem, Women’s 8 to discuss Neither wolf nor dog : on forgotten roads with an Indian elder, by Kent Nerburn, Hoodland 10 to discuss Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
Public Notary – 2 documents were notarized at Hoodland.