Whitefish Community Library

Whitefish’s Meals on Wheels program is $500 richer thanks to a pledge from the Whitefish Credit Union to readers signed up at the Whitefish Library’s Summer Reading Challenge. The Credit Union pledged $1 for every row readers completed in their tracking logs up to $500, with money earned earmarked for Whitefish Community Center’s Meals on Wheels delivery.

Enthusiastic readers took up the challenge, putting cobblestone stickers on a mural to “Pave the Way” for Meals on Wheels delivery. Before the end of Summer Reading Challenge, readers had earned the entire $500 pledge, placing 1,190 stickers on the mural. Altogether, 263 readers read 4,958 hours. That’s 7 months of reading, day and night! Way to go, Summer Reading Challenge readers!

The library is currently in the process of updating the Whitefish Pilot Index link. We appreciate your patience. The Whitefish Pilot microfilm from 1904 is available as is the microfilm reader. If you know the date of the information you need we can easily access the article.

Miss Mary will be at James Bakke Nature Reserve (601 West 7th St.) at 11 a.m. this morning for our final toddler event of the summer. We’ll enjoy this park’s 1/4 mile nature loop with “specimen bracelets” to gather whatever sparks our interest and learn about James Bakke, the artist who once lived here. Hint: check the air quality to see if you and your family are comfortable being outside. Here’s a good link: Montana DEQ Air Quality

Join us under the Library’s spacious portico this afternoon, August 14th, with your entry – or just come to view the creative takes on works of literature that your neighbors have made!

SCHEDULE:

1:30 – 2: Registration & Display of entries

2-2:30 Viewing, voting on The People’s Choice, and judging

2:30 – 3: Winners announced; feasting on entries!

Note: Library will not be open for business today, but look for news on this in September.

Below: A wizarding student protects his edible version of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”

REASON #1: TO ENTER THE CONTEST, OF COURSE!

Entries can register from 1:30 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 14th. Public viewing and voting from 2 – 2:30. Prize awards and feast at 3 p.m. (We’ll also be having a book sale during the event!) Here’s some examples of Edible Books (but we’re sure you can come up with something even better)!

FRANK IN STEIN (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley).

LARD OF THE RINGS (Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien).

JAWS by Peter Benchley.

What are these kids doing? They’re enjoying direction from Luke Walrath of ATP; specifically “make your face as big as you can.” Soon after they were running scenes from a popular children’s book. This picture is from ATP’s first visit to the Library in 2019, and we’re excited to have them back again this year. Join us in the library’s back yard on Thursday, July 22 at 10:30 a.m. for a little taste of theatre, a la ATP.

Our Meals on Wheels road is filling up with cobblestones!

Each cobblestone placed on our mural’s road, which leads from Whitefish Community Center to houses representing Meals-on-Wheels participants, means that Whitefish Credit Union will donate $1 to support Meals on Wheels.

For each row that our Summer Reading Challenge readers fill out on their reading log, they receive a cobblestone sticker to place on the road. And they have been packing the road with cobblestones! You can see how close they have are to the $500 mark at the end of the road!

Thanks to Whitefish Credit Union for sponsoring our readers, and thanks to Whitefish Community Center for making this service available in Whitefish!