Friends of library group says 'thanks'

Dear editor,

The Friends of the Mountain Home Public Library would like to thank our supporters in Mountain Home for your many book donations to our Book Nook Store and for all of the folks who purchased books from our store in the library. Your donations and purchases have enabled us to pay for many wonderful library programs over the last several months.

The programs funded by the Friends group include the following: Raffle prizes for the winter adult reading program that included two Fire Tablets along with grocery gift cards, one month's rental for the Idaho State Historical Society's Idaho Territory Day exhibit, a visit to Mountain Home by Corbin "The Reptile Guy" Maxey, funding for the Dr. Seuss birthday celebration with a guest reader of his classic children's books, funds for the library's STEAM kits for the children, prizes and eggs for the upcoming Easter egg hunt on April 14, rental for the kids' obstacle course for the April 27 Day of the Child or Dia de Los Ninos, and rental for the adult "boxing ring" during the upcoming career night in June 15.

The friends group's next monthly meeting is 7 p.m. April 20 in the library common room at the front entrance. Refreshments will be provided, and we will have a special presentation about the "humongous floods" of Glacial Lake Missoula, with photos showing the coulees, canyons, waterfalls and other geologic features in Idaho, Washington and Oregon that were carved out by those giant floods during the last Ice Age.

We will also have a formal installation of the framed print of Reverend Parker's very moving Prayer for the Library, which commemorated the successful completion of the Mountain Home Library bond.

The Friends group invites everyone to join us for snacks and a very interesting presentation that evening.

The friends' next major book sale is planned for May 12 and 13 -- the same days as the Mountain Home Visual Arts Guilds' sale in the library. Our book sale will be in the Book Nook area in the northeast corner of the library.

For more information, contact me at 587-2761, or Friends group president Laurice Bentz at 587-3122.

-- Pete Humm, Friends of the Mountain Home Public Library publicity chairman