Summer Reading Program starts Monday, June 10

Get your bookshelves ready because we’ll be Digging Into Reading this summer at the Library!

Kids (ages birth to 6th grade) can Dig Into Reading and Science with the Summer Reading Program and with Science Adventure. Kids who read (or are read to) for 20 minutes a day for 20 days become 20/20 readers and get a certificate, a free book, and qualify for fun prize drawings. Kids who engage in 10 science explorations over the summer can qualify for a chance to win an annual pass to Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum.

Teens (grades 6th through 12th) will go Beneath the Surface with their reads in the Teen Summer Reading Program. Teens who read for 20 minutes a day for 20 days win a free book and qualify for fun prize drawings.

Adults (ages 18 and older) have a summer of Groundbreaking Reads for the Adult Summer Reading Program. What does “groundbreaking” mean? Just about anything – from banned and challenged books, to books that changed your life, to novels about zombies and vampires, and even books about digging in the dirt (gardening, geology, or archaeology, anyone?). Choose to do the book Tic-Tac-Toe or a Book Review  for entry into the Grand Prize Drawing at the end of summer. Prizes include gift certificates to local restaurants and businesses, as well as movie tickets.

And that’s just the reading part. We have some amazing programs this summer as well. Take a look at our calendar to see what’s coming up.

For more information, contact the Library at 503-682-2744 or visit our website at www.wilsonvillelibrary.org.

Join us at the Wilsonville Festival of Arts this weekend (6/1-2)

Reading is an art, right?

It’s that time again! Join us, the Friends of the Wilsonville Library, and the Wilsonville Public Library Foundation at this year’s Wilsonville Festival of Arts. The Friends will have door prizes and special coupons for their Bookstore (Sssh! Don’t tell anyone that I told you!), and the Foundation will have information for local artists about the art display options available at the Library.

The Festival will be held at Town Center Park (next to the Visitor’s Center) on Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2. Come check it out!

For more information, visit the Wilsonville Festival of Arts website.

Library closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day

Just a heads up – the Library will be closed Monday, May 27, in observance of Memorial Day.

So if you are looking for barbecue cookbooks (or DVDs, given the wet weather), stop by the Library before they are all gone.

Although, if all the DVDs were checked out, that would be a sight to see . . .

For more information, contact the Library at 503-682-2744 or reference@wilsonvillelibrary.org.

Ballot box at the Library

Drop off your ballots at the Library

The ballot box is here and ready for your ballot!

Make sure to put the completed ballot in the SECRECY envelope, and then in the mailing envelope, and then sign the mailing envelope.

If you have problems with your ballot (marked the wrong circle, or put the ballot in the wrong envelope, or your dog ate the ballot), call Clackamas County Elections for a replacement ballot at 503-655-8510.

For more information, visit the Clackamas County Elections website.

Have you checked out a magazine?

All these could be yours – for two weeks (for free)!

I mean really checked out a magazine. As in picked up a magazine at the library, and checked it out on your library card.

You haven’t? Well, what are you waiting for?

Choose from a variety of magazines, from popular People, Reader’s Digest, and Sports Illustrated, to more narrow subjects like Cooks Illustrated, Macworld, Northwest Travel, Organic Gardening, Paper Crafts, and a whole lot more.

Maybe more scientific titles interest you? Then try Discover, Scientific American, and Popular Science.

Or how about titles for kids, like Calliope, Ranger Rick, and Highlights.

Did you know you can check out copies of Consumer Reports, The New York Times Book Review, and This Old House?

Just stop by the library and take a look at our magazine collection (it’s right by the large picture windows behind the Reference Desk). Magazines check out for 14 days – which is a lot more time than you have standing in the check-out line at the grocery store. And they’re free!

For more information, contact the Reference Desk at 503-682-2744 or reference@wilsonvillelibrary.org.

Honor Flight of Oregon Benefit film showing this Saturday, May 4

Honor Flight of Oregon Benefit this Saturday, May 4 at 6:00 PM.

Please join us for a showing of the movie Honor Flight at Wilsonville Public Library on Saturday, May 4, at 6:00 PM. Tickets sold at the door are $5.00. Individual copies of the movie will be available for sale. This showing is a benefit for Honor Flight of Oregon.

Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living World War II veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2004, nearly 60 years after their epic struggle.

The trips are called “Honor Flights” and for the veterans, who are in their late 80s and early 90s, it’s often the first time they’ve been thanked and the last trip of their lives. The 24-hour journey is full of surprises that deeply move all who are involved. It’s uncommon for World War II veterans to talk about the War, but the Honor Flight experience brings their stories out. Many veterans say, with the exception of their wedding day and the birth of their children, the trip is the best day of their life.

Honor Flight Benefit
Saturday, May 4
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Oak Room
$5.00 admission goes to Honor Flight of Oregon

For more information, contact Patty Brescia at 503-570-1525 or brescia@ci.wilsonville.or.us.

Shakespeare class starts Wednesday, April 24

Who (or what) is Cymbeline? Find out in this class!

Our  beloved Prof. John Ehrstine returns with this year’s “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” class.

 Join the discussion of Shakespeare’s plays being performed at this year’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, including one fairly rare play Cymbeline, and three great favorites: King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The 8-class series is only $35, and books for the class are available for purchase.

Prof. Ehrstine’s classes are highly regarded and quite popular. Call the Library at 503-682-2744  or stop by the Circulation Desk to sign up today.

For more information, contact the Library at 503-682-2744 or reference@wilsonvillelibrary.org.