Strategic Planning Update!
View the Strategic Planning update in the area of Satisfy Curiosity.  Highlights include: 68.63% of people surveyed say that the programs at the library significantly enhance their leisure time, 98.69% of people say that they would recommend a library program to a friend.

Sandy

Hoodland

Giving Trees – Sandy
delivered 104 hats, scarves, gloves & mittens to the Sandy Community Action Center.  Hoodland delivered 90 items to the Hoodland Community Christmas Basket Program through the Hoodland Fire Department.

Kids Programs
Ongoing
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Sandy 42, Hoodland 2 parents and kids

StoryTime – Sandy Preschool 53, Wee Ones 105, Hoodland 36 parents and kids

Read to the Dog – 12 kids read to Ananda

Wy’East Artisans Art Club – 11 kids and parents (only held 1 week in December)

Teen Programs
Ongoing
Game Factory – 33 teens attended

Anime Club – 34 teens attended

MakerSpace – 28 teens attended

T-LAB – 6 teens attended (it was during winter break at school)

Adult Programs
Special
Library Coffee House – 73 people came to listen Lloyd Jones play the blues

Ongoing
Paint Nite – 20 people came to paint with Melissa Lawrence

Photography Group – 9 people came to learn about the underwater and boudoir photography of Kara Pesznecker Reavis

Hoodland Bookclub – 9 people came to discuss Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

Public Notary – Hoodland 4

Outreach to Spanish Language
Vista Apartments – 31 kids and parents

ESOL Tutoring – We held our first group event with tutors and learners, sang holiday songs and had a meal together.  22 people attended!  26 learners and 27 tutors had sessions.

Art
Sandy Library is currently featuring the pinhole photography of Monica Smith, Librarian at Sandy Library!

Kids Programs

cookie decorating!

the altar

Special
Dia de los Muertos – Sandy 70 kids and parents!

Ongoing
Storytime – Sandy Wee Ones 116 kids and parents, Sandy Preschool 65, Hoodland 49

Vista-Pattern Blocks

Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Sandy 52 parents and kids, Hoodland 19

Wy’East Artisans Art Club – 25 parents and kids

Read to the Dog – 11 Kids

Vista Apartments – 50 kids and parents.  The kids continue to work towards their incentives, doing many more literacy and STEM activities than usual!

Teen Programs
Ongoing
Anime Club – 67 teens(43 people came to the special event “Taste of Asia”!)

Game Factory – 38 teens

MakerSpace – 37 teens

5th Wednesday “free day” – 20 teens

Adult Programs

Creative Cards

Special

Library Coffee House – 67 people came to hear Steve Hale – a singer/songwriter with a soul edge.

Rebuilding the David B – 7 people came to hear about rebuilding a boat and operating a small expedition cruise ship in Alaska.

Creative Cards Workshop – 13 adults came to learn how to make creative cards from previous library employee Caitlin MacDowell.

Ongoing
Paint Nite – 14 adults

Photography Group – 9 people came to hear about Pinhole Photography with library staff person Monica Smith.

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutoring – 32 learners and 26 tutors met this month!

Hoodland Book Club – 7 people came to discuss the book Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng

Public Notary – Hoodland 2

Outreach

Adult Services Librarian, Maureen Houck, visited Avamere to attend their Low Vision Group and talk about library resources.  12 people attended, 4 library cards were issued, 6 items were checked out.

Training
Selectors of materials for the library got initial training in our new selection tool collection HQ. This tool will help us easily figure out what sections of the collection are under/overstocked, which authors and titles are most popular in a given month, which items need to be replaced because they’ve been used many many times and are likely in poor condition (we have DVDs that have circulated upwards of 400 times!), and what it’s time to let go of because no one has checked it out in years (don’t worry, we’ll be keeping the classics!)

Meetings
Stakeholders Meetings for the new Community Center – 4 Teens from the Teen Library Advisory Board and staff member Rebecca Robinowitz from the library attended one meeting; Library Director, Sarah McIntyre attended another.

Civics Programs – 5 Library staff met to confirm our spring civics programs.

Kids Programs
Special
Trick or Treat Trail – We had 1576 kids come to Trick or Treat Trail! We played a game, won prizes, and gave out tons of candy.  This was 466 more kids than last year!

Dia de los Muertos – Hoodland 16 adults and kids (Sandy’s was in November we had 70 kids and adults attend)

Ongoing
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Sandy 33 , Hoodland 25 kids and parents

Wy’East Artisans Art Club – 42 kids and parents

Read to the Dog – 11 kids read to Ananda.

Storytime – Sandy Preschool 79, Sandy Wee Ones 125, Hoodland 46

Teen Programs
Special
Haunted Library – 204 teens and adults went through, 40 teen and adult volunteers worked at it, 50 teen and adult volunteers came to planning meetings

Zombie Walk – 21 teens

Teen Paint Nite – 17 teens

Ongoing
Anime Club – 54 teens

Makerspace – 31 teens

Game Factory – 25 teens

Adult Programs
Special

Seed to Supper

Stone Soup Play

Chef Daniel DeHay

Mt Hood Farmers Market – Seed to Supper + Stone Soup 175 community members came, and 8 teens participated in the play! The rest of the month we talked to 43 people, and gave out 9 packets of seeds.

Library Coffee House – 147 people came to listen to the singer/songwriter showcase.

Advanced Directives – 7 people came to this program held at the Senior Center

Ongoing

ESOL Classes – 39 learners, 34 volunteer and staff tutors

Paint Nite – 18 people came to paint nite.

Hoodland Book Group – 7 people came to discuss the book Underground Railroad.

Public Notary – Hoodland 2

Kids Programs

Ongoing
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Sandy – 31 kids and parents , Hoodland 9 kids and parents

Wy’East Art Program – 59 kids and parents

Storytimes- Sandy Preschool 90 kids and parents, Sandy Wee Ones 125 kids and parents, Hoodland 41 kids and parents

Vista Apartments – 74 kids and parents. We have been having trouble getting kids interested in the literacy activities, so we kicked off an incentive program where the kids earn stars for each literacy activity they do. The can turn in their stars for small prizes or save them up for larger prizes. This has worked really well! Four stars were earned the first week, and by the fourth week kids were turning in stars for prizes. Staff are concerned about intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation patterns, so we will assess this program in December to see what we think.

Teen Lock In – Antfarm

Karaoke Kids

Teen Programs
Special
Teen Lock-In – 99 teens. This program is in partnership with Antfarm, we start at Antfarm for karaoke, then come to the library to watch YouTube videos until midnight.

Prep for the Haunted Library – 50 teens and adults

Learning Garden

Cosplay COntest

Ongoing
Game Factory – 9 teens

MakerSpace – 26 teens

Learning Garden – 26 teens. We got our first radish and zucchini this month!

Anime Club – 42 teens. 10 for our cosplay contest!

Fermentation Class

Adult Programs
Special
Coffee House – 120 people came to hear the Americana band No Time 2 Lose

Beyond Seed Saving Workshop – 14 people

Fermentation Class – 26 people. The speaker gave out free kombucha and kefir starters, and had a lot of great information to share.

Ongoing
ESOL (English Language) Tutoring – 21 tutoring sessions, 27 learners, 22 tutors

Mt Hood FM

Mt Hood Farmers Market – 91 visitors, checked out 30 packets of seeds.

Paint Nite – 16 people came to paint with Library Board member Melissa Lawrence

Book Group – Hoodland 9 people came to discuss Norwegian by Night by

Public Notary – Hoodland notorized 1 document

Art of Dane Venderweile

Art Exhibits

Sandy – Photography of Dane Vandewiele is currently on display in our staff moderated exhibit.

Art of Pamela Smithsted

Hoodland – Clackamas County Arts Alliance is exhibiting oil paintings of Pamela Smithsted, a Sandy resident.

Kids Programs
Special
Summer Reading
Red Yarn
Sandy – 8 kids and parents
Hoodland 21 kids and parents

Make an Eclipse Viewer
Sandy – 40 kids and parents
Hoodland – 23 kids and parents

Sandy Actors Theater play Rendevous with Darkness
Sandy – 31 kids and parents
Hoodland – 16 kids and parents

The Big Eclipse in Bluff Park with Sandy Recreation Dept
386 kids and parents

Book Making
Vista Apartments- 11 kids

Angel Ocasio
Vista Apartments – 18 kids and parents

Dragon Puppet Theatre – Puppet making!
Vista Apartments – 18 kids and parents

Summer Reading Finishers Party
Vista Apartments – 18 kids and parents

Kids Summer Reading Signups vs Finishers
Sandy Signups 839, Sandy Finishers 259
Hoodland Signups 114, Hoodland Finishers 31

Vista Apartments Signups 25, Vista Apartments Finishers 0

Hana at Sandy is to the left – our Kids Summer Reading grand prize winner of an iPad!

Ongoing
Read to the Dog – 7 kids

Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club
Sandy 18 kids and parents,
Hoodland 5 kids and parents

Wy-East Art Program – 81 students

Storytimes
Preschool at Sandy – 78 kids and parents
Wee Ones at Sandy – 101 kids and parents
Hoodland – 24 kids and parents

Teen Programs
Special
Paint Nite – 19 teens

Teen Summer Reading Signups vs Finishers
Sandy Signups 218, Sandy Finishers 41
Hoodland Signups 19, Hoodland Finishers 9

Matthew from Sandy is to the left – the winner of the Teen Summer Reading grand prize, an iPad!

Ongoing
Game Factory – 22 teens

Anime Club – 2 teens

Learning Garden – 4 teens

MakerSpace – 8 teens

Mt Hood Farmer’s Market
talked to 100 people about library programs
checked out 95 packets of seeds
gave out 2 new library cards
had 2 teen volunteers

Adult Programs
Special
Library Coffee House – 78 people came to hear Kelsey and the next Right Thing

Qigong – 31 people participated in our 3 week program

Paint Night – 15 people participated

Seed Saving for Beginners – 18 people participated in this Seed Library Program

Adult Summer Reading Signups vs Finishers
Sandy Signups 197, Sandy Finishers 65
Hoodland Signups 35, Hoodland Finishers 28

Catherine at Hoodland is to the left- our winner of the Adult Summer Reading grand prize, a Kindle Fire!

Ongoing
Hoodland Book Group – 6 people came to talk about the book Gulp

Public Notary
Hoodland – 6 documents notarized

Volunteer Appreciation
Volunteer Appreciation BBQ
200 volunteers attended
13 library staff helped serve our volunteers

Building
Sandy got our Patron Self-Checkout machines installed! For the Month of August:
75.93% (or 3340 items) at Hoodland were checked out using self-checkout
78.32% (or 11,030 items) at Sandy were checked out using self-checkout
This is up from about 40% of items being checked out with self-checkout.

Art Exhibits
Clackamas County Arts Alliance changed out their art exhibit in Sandy to a group show Damascus Fiber Arts School. This show will be up for the next 2 months.

Our locally curated art exhibit in Sandy changed to Sue Allen’s Around Mount Hood: 12 months – 12 directions. This show will be up until October 5th.

Clackamas County Arts Alliance art at the Hoodland Library is currently photography by Laurence Cutler of Estacada.  This Exhibit will be up through October 10th.

The Mt Hood Piecemakers’ Club have installed a beautiful new quilt in Hoodland titled Magic by Ellen Hemmert.

Meetings
Library Advisory Board
Met on August 2nd. Discussed reduction in the number of Library Advisory Board Members (brought to City Council), initial results from the Strategic Plan- how to format them, and what information to discuss quarterly with the Board.

Sarah McIntyre attended Congressman Blumenauer’s visit to City Hall to talk with staff and electeds.

Chris Wilhelmi and Sarah McIntyre attended training with the City Attorney regarding RFPs, RFQs, and bids.

Library District Advisory Committee
The group at large got a report from the data subcommittee who was tasked with coming up with a better reporting form to LDAC and the County Commissioners. The Chair requested feedback on what topics were most relevant to discuss at upcoming meetings.

Kids Special Programs

Harry Potter’s Birthday Party – Sandy 100 kids, 79 parents + 7 teen volunteers!  This program was a huge success.  One parent said “We have been to MANY Harry Potter e vents, and this one was the best one!”  We had wand making and food indoors, potion making outside the Community Room doors on the sidewalk; it was a good thing we did, as the green foamy potion was difficult to control, and went everywhere!

Summer Reading Programs
Kids Summer Reading Signups = Sandy 839 Hoodland 114
Mad Science – Sandy 28 kids, 17 adults
LEGO Guy – Sandy 30 kids, 10 parents Hoodland 19 kids, 7 parents Vista Apartments 21 kids, 2 parents
Dragon Theater Productions – Sandy 20 kids, 10 parents Hoodland 27 kids, 10 parents
Traveling Lantern Theater – Hoodland 5 kids, 3 parents

Kids Ongoing Programs
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club
Lego Club – Sandy 16 kids, 13 parents Hoodland 12 kids, 7 parents
Minecraft – Sandy 3 kids, 1 parent

Read to the Dog – Sandy 2 kids

NEW Weekly Art Program! Wy’East Art Program – Sandy 58 kids, 16 parents

Storytimes
Preschool – Sandy 34 kids, 23 parents
Wee Ones – Sandy 42 kids, 46 parents
Storytime – Hoodland 20 kids, 16 parents

Teen Special Programs
Teen Summer Reading Signups = Sandy 218 Hoodland 19

Teen Trivia Night – Sandy 8 teens, 5 adults

Teen Ongoing Programs
Game Factory Coding Club – Sandy 29 teens
Anime Club – Sandy 4 teens

Adult Special Programs
Adult Summer Reading Signups = Sandy 197 Hoodland 28

Cool Season Vegetable Gardening – Sandy 26 people

Wise Walkers – Sandy 12 people went walking together throughout the month of July.

Library Coffee House – Sandy 101 people came to listen to the blues guitar of Terry Robb

Adult Paint Nite – Sandy 19 attendees.

Adult Ongoing Programs
Book Group – Hoodland 8 people came to discuss The Sympathizer

Public Notary – Hoodland 3

Photography Group – Sandy 2 adults

Outreach
Vista Apartments – 68 kids, 6 parents – Origami, and Outdoor games

Mt Hood Farmer’s Market – 67 visitors, gave out 99 packets of seeds, 5 new library cards, 3 teen volunteers

Buildings
Our new RFID Self- Checkout machine was installed in Hoodland on 7/24. They were installed in Sandy on 8/1!

The lobby in Sandy was rearranged to accommodate the new self checkout machines! Film was applied to the skylights to dampen the glare/heat.

Visitors
Oak Lodge Community Library Advocates visited the Sandy Library to see our building, and ask questions about funding/usefulness of our building. They are preparing information for themselves regarding recently built libraryies in Clackamas County.

Special Programs
Family
Longest Day Parkway – library staff talked with 264 people! We gave out Summer Reading packets, talked up the Sandy Seed Library, and gave out popcorn and mood pencils.

Teen
Paint Nite – 22 teens.  Library Board Member Melissa Lawrence led teens step by step through a painting.

Adult
Spain Travel Talk – 13 people.  Monica Smith, Katie Murphy and Tracy Brown presented slides and talked about their recent travels in Spain.

Paint Nite – 18 people.  Library Board Member Melissa Lawrence led adults step by step through a painting.

Library Coffee House – 203 people came to hear Skip Von Kuske & Will West. Skip Von Kuske plays Cello (Portland Cello Project) and Will West plays guitar (The Friendly Strangers).

We held a Beginning Vegetable Gardening seminar and 11 people came.

Ongoing Programs
Kid
Read to the Dog – 9 kids

Saturday Afternoon Kids Club
Sandy Lego Club – 28 kids and parents, Hoodland – 11
Sandy Coding Club – 4
Hoodland Art Club – 2

Storytimes
Sandy Preschool – 60 kids and parents
Sandy Wee Ones – 136!
Hoodland – 38

Vista Apartments – 89 kids and parents.  Photos left:  Susan Winsinger said “The kids were really engaged today doing the book scavenger hunt (for prizes)!

Wy’East Artisan Guild started a weekly youth art program on June 21st in partnership with the library. We had a great start our first 2 weeks, 28 kids and parents attending.

Teen
Game Factory – 24 teens
MakerSpace – 24. Teens designed items with duct tape.
Anime Club – 42. Teens made candy sushi!

Adult
English Classes (ESOL)
9 students, 17 kids
12 volunteer teacher’s aides

We are switching to tutoring for the summer months. We held an English Tutor Training, and 12 people came.

Hoodland Book Group – 6 people came to discuss the book Plainsong by Kent Haruf.

Two public notaries at Hoodland.

Outreach
Rebecca Robinowitz visited the Sandy High School to promote Summer Reading and gave out 38 packets to interested teens.

Staff and 7 teen volunteers talked to 239 people at the Mt Hood Farmers Market! We gave out 307 seed packets from the Sandy Seed Library, issued 8 new library cards, and gave out 25 Adult Summer Reading packets, 40 kids summer reading packets, and 8 teen summer reading packets.

Training
Sarah McIntyre attended the AntFarm Lunch and Learn on Senior Resources. It was packed with great information.

Special Programs
Family
Free Comic Book Day 2017! – 36 people in Sandy, and 17 at  Hoodland to grab Free Comic Books, play games, and make superhero crafts.

Hora de Cuentos! – Four families came to Spanish Language Storytime in May. This happened while the library was closed to tag for RFID, so was a really great turnout.

Adult
ESOL English Language and Culture Classes – 23 students and 18 volunteer teacher’s assistants.

Library Coffee House – 141 people came to listen to Pablo Grabiel and the Steelhead Stalkers and eat treats from Tollgate Bakery.

Oregon Trail – 16 adults came to listen to speakers, John Salisbury and Richard Matthews, cover the length of the Oregon Trail, from Independence to Oregon City, using slides of the trail.

Paint Nite – 16 adults led by Melissa Lawrence of the Library Advisory Board.

Ongoing Programs
Kid
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – 40 kids and parents in Sandy
18 kids and parents in Hoodland

Preschool Storytime – 79 kids and parents in Sandy
Wee ones Storytime – 119 kids and parents in Sandy
Hoodland Storytime – 38 kids and parents

Read to the Dog – 5 kids

Teen
Game Factory Coding Club – 49 teens
MakerSpace – 17 teens
Anime Club – 45 teens
T-LAB Teen Library Advisory Board- 14 teens

Adult
Hoodland BookClub – 7 adults to discuss the book People in the Trees

Photography Group – 7 adults came to the informal photography outing (photos to the left by Thea Kuziemski)

Public Notaries – 4 took place at Hoodland

Outreach
Vista Apartments – 72 kids and parents for literacy and STEM activities

Mt Hood Farmer’s Market – 243 people. The Mt Hood Farmer’s Market is turning out to be a huge success for the library. In addition to all of the people we talked to about library programs, we checked out 268 seeds from the Sandy Seed Library for people to plant in their gardens, issued 9 new library cards, and had 9 teen volunteers help us out there!

Building
RFID at Sandy Library – we had 24 volunteers spend 190.5 hours . plus 19 staff members most working 40 hours during our week of tagging at Sandy Library! We tagged almost 38,000 items that week alone. 

Pictured above and left are: Kathy Drain a great volunteer (retired Reference Librarian), Sue Hash & Molly Espenel (On-Call Library Staff), and Dianne Downey (Library Assistant at Hoodland) tagging at Sandy Library.  In addition to tagging, we installed additional shelving at Sandy Library (where there were short shelves, we installed taller ones). Watch this fun time lapse video of some of our expert shifters – Susie Jenkins, Monica Smith, Jack Frick (Friend of the Library), & Suzanne Murray moving books around!

Two of the collections we moved during this week were Kids’ Nonfiction Collections. We combined our E Non-Fiction (kids up to 2nd grade) and our J Non-Fiction (kids 3rd- 5th grades) collections into one now housed in the Kids’ area! Here is a comment from a staff person shortly after:
“On Sunday, I was speaking with a mom about how we moved our kid NF collection out of being interfiled with adult. She has two boys, probably about 6 and 9. She loved the new location. Her kids were normally only checking out “the same three books”. They took different books yesterday because they were able to easily browse the shelves.”

Training
Supervisor Training with Kathy Peck – 5 library supervisors attended this great informative training.

Exhibits
Clackamas County Grange Exhibit – This great exhibit to Celebrate 150 years of granges was up for the month of May.

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:

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.

Special Programs

Kids
We held Dr Seuss Birthday parties at Sandy and Hoodland! 23 kids and 15 adults came to Sandy, and 11 kids and 6 parents came to Hoodland to watch a Dr. Seuss movie and eat cupcakes!

Living Way Preschool (7 kids and 7 adults) and Little Cubs Preschool (17 kids and 5 adults) visited the library in March.

Welches School had an Architect create projects with kids in 3rd and 5th grades.  The projects were displayed at the Hoodland Library from March 20th – April 3rd.  The kids created diaramas of school playground equipment.  There was a reception at the library on March 22nd that 102 parents and kids attended.

Teens
Our Jeopardy Trivia Night had 22 teens attend to duel it out. Three winners got a $25 Amazon gift card.

We talked with 10 teens and 9 adults at the Job Fair with Antfarm. We talked with them about the Job and Career Accelerator database, had books on jobs and careers to check out, and advertised positions for the summer camp the City of Sandy is doing (with Camp Namanu).

Adults
20 people attended our Adult Paint Nite with Library Advisory Board member Melissa Lawrence.

We held a “Know Your Rights” Program in partnership with Programa Hispano at VISTA Apartments.  35 people came.

Ongoing Programs
Kids
Preschool Storytime at Sandy had 62 kids and 42 adults, Wee ones at Sandy had 95 kids and and 93 adults, Hoodland Story time had 41 kids and 26 adults.

Vista Apartments had 106 kids and 14 adults attend to do literacy activities.

Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club        Art Club at Sandy had 25 kids and 25 parents come to make crayon art with Kylie Shai, a Sandy High School student working on her senior project.

Hoodland had 14 kids and 9 adults come to play LEGOS and make art projects in the month of March.

Teens
29 teens attended the twice monthly MakerSpace program.
47 teens attended the twice monthly Anime Club.
23 teens attended the thrice a month Game Factory.
12 teens attended the Teen Library Advisory Board meeting.

Adults
ESOL Classes had 53 students and 23 volunteer teacher helpers in the month of March!

168 people came to hear Aaron Meyer play his violin at Library Coffee House.

We held a talk by The Early Assessment and Support Alliance (EASA). EASA is an early intervention program for adolescents and young adults experiencing psychosis for the first time. 2 people attended.

Our newly revived Photography Group had 7 people attend for Camera 101 lessons.  Camera 101 will continue on April 20th.

The Hoodland Book Group had 6 people attend to discuss the book Maytrees by Annie Dillard.

Hoodland did a total of 7 Public Notaries in March.

Celebrations
On May 6th, we celebrated 5 years in our new Sandy Library building!  We had cupcakes and waived $5 in fines for anyone who came in the door on that day.  We waived a total of $258.55.