Whitefish Community Library

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.

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.

You are welcome to attend Community Craft Night at the Library every other Monday. The community room is open from 5:30 to 8:30 for the public to coome in with their projects and unwind in a dedicated space and time for making.

If you’ve always wanted to try watercolor, or like to try new things, join us for Community Craft Night Watercolor Edition. On Monday, June 29, our hosting nonprofit, The Making Place, will bring in supplies for attendees to try their hands at watercolor.

Free and open to all. For more details, call the Library at 406-862-9914.

Summer Reading kicked off Monday, June 8th and people of all ages have been signing up, hoping to win a prize, contribute to this year’s nonprofit, or just to read a really good book! Signups continue all summer until mid-August – it’s never too late.

We already have stickers on our banner, each representing a dollar that will be donated to local nonprofit The Making Place by our partner, the Whitefish Credit Union.

We’re looking forward to Thursdays at 10:30 when our family-friendly summer reading activities take place. This Thursday, June 18, we’ll see the Whitefish Lake Institute and search for macroinvertebrates. Find out more HERE.

Here’s our “before” picture. We’re looking forward to seeing our Making Place banner plastered with stickers by Saturday, August 15.

We have a new indoor air monitor at the Library and it’s due to a partnership with Climate Smart Glacier and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.

To celebrate becoming a Clean Indoor Air Center for the community, on Monday, June 8 at 5:30 p.m. Climate Smart Glacier will demonstrate how to build your very own box fan indoor air filter. This easy way to clean your indoor air requires only a box fan, an air filter, and duct tape. Learn how to do this easy build, and check out the monitor and pick up some free information about air quality and how to keep safe during a wildfire smoke or other air quality event @ Your Library!