CIty Events
SAM Anniversary – Monica and our volunteer talked with 19 people. 9 kids did the craft based on Mo Willems book Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!
Fire Extinguisher Training – 9 library staff attended this City-wide training.
Kids Programs
Ongoing
Wy’East Artisans Art Club – kids
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club:
LEGO Club – Sandy 15 kids and 9 parents
Science Saturday – 11 kids and 7 parents came to make DIY fidget spinners!
Pokemon Club – 3 kids and 2 parents
Art Club – Sandy 5 kids and 2 parents, Hoodland 3 kids and 3 parents
Storytime:
Wee Ones – 74 kids and 56 parents
Preschool – 44 kids and 35 parents
Hoodland – 6 kids and 5 parents
Reading Tutoring – Our reading tutoring program is getting into the swing of things!
Sandy – 17 tutors met with 21 kids! And we started reading tutoring in Hoodland – 1 tutor met with 1 student.
Read to a Dog – 2 kids
Teen Programs
Special
Teen Lock-In – 52 teens
Life Skills Class – 6 teens
TLAB – 5 teens
Creative Writing Workshop – 9 teens attended our first writing workshop with MFA Bree Bender.
Ongoing
TeenSpace – 149 teens!
Adult Programs
Special
Library Coffeehouse – 76 people attended to cheer on their friends and neighbors at an Open Mic night. Thank you to Mountain Moka for the coffee donation!
Art Supply Swap – 20 people came to swap art supplies with the library and each other.
Mindfulness: Being in the Present – 14 people attended this lecture by Emily Teiko Cartoun and Moica Smith of the Wy’East Zen Center
Sandy Seed Library our seed library volunteers are still busily getting everything ready!
Ongoing
Paint Nite – 27 people attended to paint step-by-step with Melissa Lawrence.
Hiking in the Alps – 24 people attended to hear about a trip that Elaine Russell, Library Assistant and her friend Ann Rogers took to Switzerland, Italy, and France.
Book Clubs:
Men’s – 10 people discussed True Grit by Charles Portis.
Hoodland – 8 people discussed The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin.
Women’s – 11 people discussed The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Photography Group – 8 people attended the lighting adventure.
Public Notary – Hoodland
Outreach
Special
Vista Apartments Resource Fair – 60 people attended to learn about community resources.
Ongoing
Vista Apartments – 66 kids did literacy and STEM activities, and challenge worksheets. Plus they made bike smoothies with OSU Extension, Grape sculptures, and fish in the sea (creative snacks), and “shopped” at the “grocery store”.
ESOL tutoring – 47 tutors met with 54 students
Department of Human Services – 10 people were seen. They got application assistance, information about the OHP, SNAP benefits, and eviction assistance.
Training
Portland Literacy Council Tutor Training – Katie Murphy and 4 of the ESOL volunteer tutors attended a workshop on Adult Basic Skills/GED and English language learners at Clackamas Community College.
Exhibits
Wy’East Artisans Art is currently hanging at Sandy until the first week of July.
