Whitefish Community Library

Interested Citizens:

Want to contribute to the future of Whitefish? Join our motivated and hard-working Board! Apply to be a Trustee-in-Training on the Whitefish Community Library’s Board of Trustees.

Trustee-in-Training is a non-voting appointment for one year after which a 5-year appointment as a voting member of the Board commences.

Trustees must reside within School District 44. The Board meets monthly in the evenings for an average of 10 months each year.

If interested: please submit a letter of interest by Wednesday, Oct. 1st to Library Director Mary Drew Powers via snail or email: 9 Spokane Avenue Whitefish, MT 59937 OR marydrew@whitefishlibrary.org

Questions about the Trustee-in-Training position? Please call Mary Drew at 406-862-9914.

Readers ranging in age from babies to great-grandparents made Whitefish Community Library’s “Relax and Unwind” summer reading challenge a great success. The 441 participants read through the summer with the incentive to win prizes and to earn donations for a local nonprofit.

For the fifth year, Whitefish Credit Union supported the challenge with a donation of $1 for every row readers completed on their reading log. All the readers combined to earn a record $2850 for the Miracle League – a free, summer baseball program for children and adults with a special need or disability of any kind or severity, while 40 readers won prizes generously donated by local businesses.

“So many businesses in the valley were so generous this year. We can’t thank them enough for supporting literacy for youth in the summer,” stated Gina Schiff, Youth Services Librarian. The extensive list of donors can be found HERE.

The summer program ended with a celebratory Ice Cream Party in the Depot Park Gazebo, with ice cream and all the fixings donated by Safeway.

Story Circle will take a break on Friday, August 22, and Friday, August 29, so that Miss Gina can take a well-deserved rest after the most successful Summer Reading Program in WCL’s history!

Our readers read enough to place 2,850 baseball stickers on the baseball field mural, triggering a donation of the same amount by the Whitefish Credit Union to the Miracle League of Northwestern Montana.

Story Circle will resume on Friday, September 5th at 11 am as usual.

Above: Miracle League Banner before 2,850 stickers.

Below: Miracle League Banner after 2,850 stickers.

Toddlers will discover whooooo lives on the trail – a 1/2 mile hike to the Whitefish Legacy Partner Learning Pavilion. We will meet at the Trailhead at 10 a.m.

This hike is targeted to ages 2-4 and their caregivers. Space is limited – please REGISTER HERE.

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten has its first graduate. Congratulations Sinéad! Visit the library for more information on this preschool program.

Our scheduled guest for July 10 is unable to make it.

But we have something fun planned as a replacement!

We’ve built a yard full of STEAM activities to engage ages 2-8 in exploration. You’ll find us just outside the Community Room at 10:30 am, ready to have a good (and maybe messy) time.

“On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, and two days later delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson. From 1776 to the present day, July 4th has been celebrated as the birth of American independence, with festivities ranging from fireworks, parades and concerts to more casual family gatherings and barbecues. ” ~ HIstory.com

WHITEFISH COMMUNITY LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JULY 4 & 5, SO STAFF CAN CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY WITH FRIENDS & FAMILY.