Whitefish Community Library

Come do some painting at the Library with The Making Place!

The Making Place provides watercolor, acrylic and oil pastels to give you a taste of the medium of your choice., as well as paper and brushes. Craft night host Noel will get you started in the right direction.

If you have another craft project to work on, you’re welcome too, at Whitefish’s Community Craft Night, free and open to all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Whitefish Community Craft Night runs from 5:30 to 8:30 pm every other Monday in the Library’s Community Room.

With mixed emotions, I am announcing that Summer Reading 2026 has come to an end. The ice cream has been served. The tickets have been counted. And the prize winners have been notified.

Although I am sad to see it come to an end, I am ecstatic to announce that there were 545 participants who contributed to the 3,386 stickers that were placed on the Making Place banner. That is $3,386 earned for The Making Place! That is $536 more than last year. WOW! A HUGE thank you to the Whitefish Credit Union for sponsoring this program again! Signed: Gina, Youth Services Librarian.

Story Circle will be taking an end of summer break. There will not be Story Circle on Friday August 14 or Friday August 21. Miss Gina will be busy wrapping up the Summer Reading Challenge with an ice cream party on Friday August 14 from 2:00-3:00. She will also be counting tickets to figure out how much money all the participants earned for the Making Place and drawing the lucky winners for the prizes! A huge thank you Whitefish Credit Union for sponsoring the Whitefish Library Reading Challenge again this year! You will see her again for Story Circle on Friday August 28.

Tai Chi will be taking a break starting August 18. Sessions will resume Tuesday, October 6. The library will be back to winter hours by then, so sessions will be from 10:00-11:30 Tuesday mornings

The Summer Reading Challenge wraps up this week with two events:

on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. The Making Place will demonstrate and help you make a dragonfly craft using some surprising household objects.

On Friday we’ll have our End-of-Summer-Reading-Challenge ice cream party over at the Depot Park Gazebo from 2 to 3 pm. – just in time to ruin your dinner!

Be sure to bring in your reading logs before Saturday at 5 pm. That’s the deadline for handing in reading logs and getting stickers onto The Making Place banner.

Next week we’ll find out who was lucky enough to win prizes and how much money the readers have earned for this year’s nonprofit – The Making Place. We can’t wait!

WHITEFISH COMMUNITY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Want to be part of an active Board of Trustees that gets things done? Trustee-in-Training (non-voting) positions are open for the Whitefish Community Library Board of Trustees.

Trustees-in-Training learn about the Library’s mission and Trustee responsibilities during their training and take over from a Trustee once their term has ended. Applicants must reside within boundaries of the City of Whitefish and/or School District 44.

The Board meets most months of the year in the evening.

Interested citizens: please submit a letter of interest to serve as Trustee-in-Training on the above board mailed to: Attn. Library Director, Whitefish Community Library, 9 Spokane Ave., Whitefish, MT 59937

or send an email to marydrew@whitefishlibrary.org by Wed, August 5, 2026 at 5:00pm.

Interviews will be scheduled at an evening meeting in October. Thereafter, if vacancies still exist, letters of interest will be accepted until the position(s) are filled. If you have any questions, please call Mary Drew Powers, Library Director, at 406-862-9914.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.

WHITEFISH COMMUNITY LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JULY 3 & 4, SO STAFF CAN CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY WITH FRIENDS & FAMILY.