Hop on board a bus for stories with Community Transit!
Kids will enjoy transit-themed reads and learn about public transit’s role in connecting us. Plus, you can meet the bus driver and ask your questions.
Hosted by the Lakewood/Smokey Pt. Library
https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/68279d3e7374ee901de05d55
At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Betty Robinson, a seventeen-year-old student from Chicago, won a gold medal in the inaugural offering of women’s track and field. Three years later as she prepared to defend her title at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, she was in a plane crash and believed to be dead until the mortician noticed her breathing and she was revived. Doctors told Robinson she’d be lucky to walk again and advised her to give up her Olympic aspirations. Yet at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, she was back on the podium with another gold medal.
Betty Robinson represents one of many fascinating but overlooked pioneering women Olympians. In this talk, author Elise Hooper separates fact from fiction to uncover the progress and setbacks faced by women Olympians since they first began competing in 1900.
Elise Hooper (she/her) spent several years writing for television and online news outlets before getting a Master of Arts and teaching high-school literature and history. Her debut novel The Other Alcott was a nominee for the 2017 Washington Book Award. Three more novels—Learning to See, Fast Girls, and Angels of the Pacific—followed, all centered on the lives of extraordinary but overlooked historical women. Hooper lives in Seattle.
Hosted by the Lakewood/Smokey Pt. Library
To Register: https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/6855ebacf60a5c0141b49c4b
So, you want to grow your own food, but you don’t have much space. No worries, WSU Master Gardener Laura Cooper is here to help!
Join library staff at Linc NW where Laura will teach you how to select and prepare containers, what soil to use, how to water, and general maintenance. By the end of her presentation, you’ll be ready to start growing your very own vegetables, berries, tree fruit, and herbs.
To register, visit https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67f8479f37ee39d9344395a7
Join us at the new Lakewood Lockers at LINC NW for a special parachute Storytime! Enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and parachute play together as a family to prepare for the wonder of reading.
A play time or art activity may follow.
To register, visit https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67ead786a41c77360028ca20
If you have limited space or want to put vegetables in a handy spot, consider growing them in containers! WSU Master Gardener Claudia Douglass will be at Linc NW with library staff to teach us how to choose containers, what kind of soil to put in them, the best types of vegetables to grow in containers, and how much produce you can expect to harvest. By the end of this program, you'll be ready to go home and get your own container garden started!
To register, visit https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67f986c32971a34a250fd39e
Are you new to gardening or looking for a refresher course? Join WSU Master Gardner Claudia Douglass with library staff at Linc NW as she presents Gardening 101 where she’ll talk about the unique climate here in the PNW and how to grow vegetables, fruit, and ornamentals. She will also go over common gardening problems and show us some helpful resources to deal with them.
To register, visit https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67f985eb075f772800756828
Stop by our newest location - the Lakewood Lockers at Linc NW - for a family Tie-Dye event!
We will provide all the essentials for dyeing and a limited amount of canvas totes, drawstring bags, and bandanas for you to dye. You are welcome to bring your own small-mid sized item such as a t-shirt (natural fibers work best).
We will provide rubber gloves a well as trash-bags (to use as smocks), but we strongly encourage you to wear old clothing/shoes you wouldn't mind getting dye on - accidents happen!
Registration is recommended, but not required. To register, visit https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/6802bbd279b6f832a6d89397
This event will be taking place outside.
Join the WSU Snohomish County Extension Beach Watchers for stories and activities designed to teach children about our fascinating beaches, shoreline, and the Salish Sea as well as their role in caring for it.
In an age-appropriate manner, children will learn:
How all water is connected and flows to Puget Sound
About the rich diversity of plants and animals found at local beaches
How to keep the beach clean
How to be respectful while looking at beach creatures.
For preschool-aged children and their caregivers.
To register, visit https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67eac942e5bd80b51c30fe73
