Whitefish Community Library

The last week of Summer Fun 2023 is here with two more events before our pre-school year break.

Join us Thursday, August 3 at 10:30 when Stumptown Art Studio comes to visit. You’ll get to participate in a guided art experience and create an art project to remember your summer by. Here’s our Fish Art from a couple of years ago:

Then, are you ready to have your book and eat it too? The annual Edible Book Festival on Saturday, August 5th at 1:30 is a must! Come to enter your edible representation of a favorite book, or to view the creations your friends and neighbors have made, or to feast on edible books after the awards and prizes are given out. More info on how to register HERE. Meanwhile, feast your eyes on the edible version of “Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go.”

Their official name is Intermountain Therapy Animals but we affectionately know them as the “R.E.A.D. Dogs.” That’s Reading Education Assistance Dogs when you spell it out. They’ll be visiting Thursday, July 27 at 10:30 a.m. with Susie Gonaver. She’ll tell you about their mission and to introduce you to some of the lovely dogs that visit the Library and help kids practice reading. Come join us in the Community Room!

(PSST: register for the Edible Book Festival HERE.)

Our next Summer Fun takes place offsite – with Whitefish Legacy Partners on the Lion Mountain Trail. Meet at Lion Mountain Trailhead on Thursday, July 20 at 10 a.m. for a fun (and short) 1/2 mile hike with your toddlers to the Learning Pavilion! Space is limited so please register at Tots on the Trail.

The Whitefish Community Library Board of Trustees meets Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 7 p.m. in the Heckathorn Community Room. The public is invited to attend in person or via ZOOM.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457592540?pwd=allBU05WT2RPTG1WRk5MTGFqV3AzZz09

Meeting ID: 834 5759 2540 Passcode: morebooks

Meeting ID: 829 0714 2512 Passcode: morebooks

After the recent mailing of appraisal notices to Montana property owners, there have been many questions about the estimated increase in taxes from concerned homeowners. The Montana Department of Revenue is conducting Property Assessment Town Halls around the state to provide information about the tax assessment process and how properties were evaluated.

Click the following link to find dates, times and locations for a Town Hall near you.

Flathead County’s Town Hall will take place on July 12th from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kalispell, address is 1840 US-93, Kalispell, MT 59901

OR take advantage of one of the four Zoom meetings (copy and paste the link into your browser):

July 6, 2023 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

https://mt-gov.zoom.us/j/89323576600?pwd=WDFlelVLaTI3ZHRxd1RHQ0VpVHlTdz09

July 12, 2023 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

https://mt-gov.zoom.us/j/83072546183?pwd=NHlZTnhneWZtbXV3bXJCWjlwcEhwUT09

July 17, 2023 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

https://mt-gov.zoom.us/j/87838773623?pwd=cWFoaVBONWxjak1yZm9FZWFHSmxyZz09

July 25, 2023 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

https://mt-gov.zoom.us/j/83533662055?pwd=RFVmUy9pTG1Cc1E3YVU0aElrbDJwZz09

Summer Fun at the Library continues on Thursday, June 29 at 10:30 a.m. when Whitefish Lake Institute brings macroinvertebrates from local streams for kids to find and identify. Hope to see you there!

Thanks to an initiative by Montana’s First Lady Susan Gianforte, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is now becoming available across Montana, including the Flathead Valley.

The Imagination Library is Dolly Parton’s “book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income” according to the Imagination Library website. You can read more about how the Imagination Library came to Montana HERE, and don’t forget to click on CHECK AVAILABILITY on the upper right red banner to sign up your child(ren) for the very special free books mailed right to your house by the Imagination Library.