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Summer Reading Buddies is a program designed to develop leadership skills and volunteerism in Older Buddies as they support Little Buddies in emerging literacy skills and a love of reading. Registration as a Little or Older Buddy is required! Program dates: Wednesdays, June 24 - August 5 #### Session schedule: - 11:00-11:15am Older Buddies mini-training session - 11:15-11:30am Little Buddies arrive; group game/activity - 11:30-12:00pm One-on-one reading ### Who can be a Little Buddy? - Pre-K age through 5th grade. - No minimum reading/writing skills required. - Must be able to sit with Older Buddy for 30 minutes of reading (can take movement breaks if needed). - Must be able to attend at least six of the 8 meetings at the library OR arrange to meet your buddy at a different mutually convenient time/place (could even be on Zoom). ### Requirements for volunteering as an Older Buddy - Older Buddies must be in middle school or high school (grades 6-12). - You do not have to be a “serious” reader, just someone who enjoys reading or wants to rediscover the joy of reading. - Attend at least six of the 8 meetings at the library OR arrange to meet your buddy at a different mutually convenient time/place (could even be on Zoom). - Be fully engaged, kind, and patient with your Little Buddy. They will be looking up to you and following your lead! - Fill out a pre- and post-survey about your experience. - No phone or other personal device use during reading sessions. ### What do Older Buddies do? Mentor a younger reader in pre-K through 5th grade! This is an opportunity to build a connection with a younger reader (Little Buddy) over the summer to support their emerging literacy and a life-long love of reading. Each session will begin with 15 minutes of training for Older Buddies, 15 minutes of a group game, and 30 minutes of one-on-one reading. Participation counts towards community service hours.

The Parking Advisory Committee is charged with evaluating how both public and private parking spaces are utilized, identify issues and then responding with appropriate policies and management strategies that align with community objectives.

Grab a friend and join us every Thursday for a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math)-y time exploring our Summer Library Program theme: Plant a Seed, Read! Each week, we'll dive into an art or craft project and related STEM concepts. Registration required. Participants will be divided into older and younger groups. Today's Topic: Wildflower Seed Paper Germination

Full – waitlist available! Join us for a Mexican folkloric dance class series with local teacher Sandy Zárate! Participants will learn the fundamentals of folkloric dance and explore dances from different regions of Mexico. This course is geared towards youth in grades 1st through 7th and will be taught in English and Spanish. This series will include 13 hour-long class sessions, as well as a final performance on Saturday, July 25th, as part of the Peshastin Friends of the Library Ice Cream Social. A brief meeting will be held at the beginning of the first class on Tuesday, June 16th for parents and caregivers to discuss class content and expectations. Pre-registration is required. If you register and your plans change and you are no longer able to participate, please let us know so we can make your spot available to another student.

Leavenworth Bike Fest brings back Bike 'n Brews and Bike 'n Juice for the kiddos. Add in the brand new SchötterFest Gravel Race; Alpen Tour de Flüsse century rides; live music on the Main Stage featuring Hell's Belles and other local favorites; a bike expo; food trucks; the official Icicle Brewing Finish Line Beer Fest - and we've got a festival on our hands!

Come sew with us! Open Sew is a monthly drop-in program for sewers looking to create in community. Bring your own project, sewing machine, and materials. Hosted by Amelia Greenhall, local expert and author of How to sew clothes: learn with intuitive, super-hackable patterns. Sewers of all levels welcome. Perfect for the occasional sewer who needs motivation and/or a bit of guidance on how to use their machine or advice on a project.

An album release concert! Behind Your Eyes, The Stars Are Born is a record five years in the making, a joyful, searching, ultimately hopeful celebration of the divine creativity alive in every human being. The night after his eighth album releases to the world, Benjamin Jay Thomas comes home to celebrate it. Behind Your Eyes, The Stars Are Born is a record five years in the making — a joyful, searching, ultimately hopeful celebration of the divine creativity alive in every human being. The release show at Snowy Owl Theater is the first full live performance of this music: an evening shaped as a Guided Concert, moving through song, poetry, moments of silence, and communal singing, supported by a handful of other voices from the Bring Forth community. The set will be a carefully crafted arc... an experience designed to let the music land the way it was written to land: in a room full of people, together. Behind Your Eyes, The Stars Are Born is Benjamin Jay Thomas's eighth full length album, five years in the making. It is his most sonically adventurous record yet - blending indie folk roots with the warmth and lift of indie pop - and his most personal: a full-throated celebration of the seed of divine creativity at the center of every human being. The album moves through longing and reconnection, through the rebel cry of imagination refusing to be shrunk, through the medicine of faithful witness and presence. It ends where it begins: in the heart, in the body, in the deep knowing that the Wisdom is you.