Makerspace, Lego Club, computer classes, read to the Dog, Fiber arts circle, D&D

Hoodland Public Library and Sandy Public Library will be closed for the following holidays:

Library App

"Our software provider has informed us that the LINCC Mobile app is currently nonfunctional. Unfortunately, they don’t expect a new version to be available until March 2024.

Please note, Libby, our other app for accessing e-books, digital audiobooks, and e-magazines, is not affected by these issues."

Teen Makerspace Group

Sandy Community Center

Wednesdays 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Group 1 and Group 2 will alternate weeks, but will go through the same curriculum.

Makerspace group is intended for teens to gather, design, create, and experiment with a variety of tools and materials in a creative and hands-on learning environment.

Register to be a part of a free teen makerspace group. Groups meet every other week for 10 weeks for a total of 5 classes. Learn a new skill and make new friends! Teens in grades 6th - 12th welcome. A maximum of 10 participants per group.

Projects will include: Code a hexagon light panel, make sustainable bath bombs and soap, build a mason bee house, and develop a cyanotype print on cotton fabric.

Annual Teen Art Contest entries are due January 15! For more details, click here.

Cards for Seniors!

You made and we delivered a total of 343 cards to our local seniors. For some of these folks this is the only card they will get this year. So proud of our community!

Sandy: 295

Hoodland: 48

Book Clubs

Details for book clubs click here

Portland Japanese Garden

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A "lantern containing a candle or lamp filled with fats and oils was never intended to banish the dark. Instead, the light the ishi-doro (stone lantern) cast provided a means through even blinding pitch-black, a way to make the places and people we needed, discoverable.".....

Reserve your free pass

Seedy Saturday

When: Saturday, January 27, 2:00 - 3:30 pm

Location: Sandy Library Community Room

More Info: Brianna Chase

Welcome gardeners to our 5th Annual Seedy Saturday Seed Swap.

Meet other local gardeners and share growing tips beginning at 2:00 pm in the Sandy Library Community Room.

Bring your organic, non-GMO garden seeds to share. It is not required that you donate seeds to be able to participate. Bring what you have, and take what you need.

Special guests will include representatives from Bee City USA, the community gardens, and a local native plant nursery.

Artwork Highlight

"The essence of water as I see it is the cascading stream - intimate, reflective, transparent, and ever-moving. The stream gives life wherever it goes and I find that water is a good metaphor for life, as it is beautiful, essential, and dynamic. We are drawn to it and I can see the Creator's hand in it. My wish is that many will find inspiration and hope in my work." - Gary Buhler More HERE

Lake Oswego Reads 2023

About

Staff Pick

- Brianna Chase

Library Clerk

Lake Oswego Public Library had this book as their Lake Oswego Reads program pick and I am so glad they did. I was introduced to it when we had their traveling art exhibit at our library so I decided to give it a read, too. The book follows a girl from the Dakota tribe and the story of her journey into womanhood. This line from the publisher’s website sums it up quite perfectly, “weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors.”

All library programs are sponsored in part by Friends of Sandy Library and Friends of Hoodland Library

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