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Library Closed - Memorial Day
May 29, 2021
The library will be closed Saturday, May 29, and Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial Day. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Memorial Day
May 31, 2021
The library will be closed Saturday, May 29, and Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial Day. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Independence Day
July 05, 2021
The library will be closed Monday, July 5, in observance of Independence Day. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Labor Day
September 04, 2021
The library will be closed Saturday, September 4, and Monday, September 6, in observance of Labor Day. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Labor Day
September 06, 2021
The library will be closed Saturday, September 4, and Monday, September 6, in observance of Labor Day. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Thanksgiving
November 25, 2021
The library will be closed Thursday, November 25, in observance of Thanksgiving Day. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Christmas
December 23, 2021
The library will be closed Thursday, December 23, Friday, December 24, and Saturday, December 35, in observance of the Christmas holiday. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Christmas
December 24, 2021
The library will be closed Thursday, December 23, Friday, December 24, and Saturday, December 35, in observance of the Christmas holiday. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - Christmas
December 25, 2021
The library will be closed Thursday, December 23, Friday, December 24, and Saturday, December 35, in observance of the Christmas holiday. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - New Year's
December 30, 2021
The library will be closed Thursday, December 30, Friday, December 31, and Saturday, January 1, in observance of the new year. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - New Year's
December 31, 2021
The library will be closed Thursday, December 30, Friday, December 31, and Saturday, January 1, in observance of the new year. Click through for more details.
Library Closed - New Year's
January 01, 2022
The library will be closed Thursday, December 30, Friday, December 31, and Saturday, January 1, in observance of the new year. Click through for more details.
Take Home Crafts for Adults - Herbal Starter Kit
April 17, 2021
This month's take home kits for adults will be an herbal starter kit. Get your herb seeds, potting soil, and little terra cotta pot in one place! Growing season isn't far away.
Kits will be available one Saturday per month at 10 AM. Kits are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis. One per person please. Kits are geared for teens and adults. Contact Sara at sdavister@westbendlibrary.org with any questions.
Readventurers Book Club
April 15, 2021
The Readventurers group meets the third Thursday of each month. They read a variety of materials and members pick out the books. Please contact Sara at sdavister@westbendlibrary.org with any questions.
Readventurers Book Club
May 20, 2021
The Readventurers group meets the third Thursday of each month. They read a variety of materials and members pick out the books. Please contact Sara at sdavister@westbendlibrary.org with any questions.
Readventurers Book Club
September 16, 2021
The Readventurers group meets the third Thursday of each month. They read a variety of materials and members pick out the books. Please contact Sara at sdavister@westbendlibrary.org with any questions.
Readventurers Book Club
October 21, 2021
The Readventurers group meets the third Thursday of each month. They read a variety of materials and members pick out the books. Please contact Sara at sdavister@westbendlibrary.org with any questions.
Readventurers Book Club
December 16, 2021
The Readventurers group meets the third Thursday of each month. They read a variety of materials and members pick out the books. Please contact Sara at sdavister@westbendlibrary.org with any questions.
Virtual Badger Talk from West Bend, WI: The German Presence in Wisconsin
April 19, 2021
This is a FREE virtual event hosted by the West Bend Community Memorial Library. To access the event, you will need the Facebook event.
In this talk, Professor Mark Louden will provide an overview of the impact that German speaking immigrants and their descendants have had in shaping the life and culture of Wisconsin, from the nineteenth century to the present. Mark Louden is a linguist who received his training in Germanic linguistics at Cornell University. A fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, he has publised extensively on this language and other German-American varieties as well as Yiddish. In addition to his position as the Alfred L. Shomaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics, he directs the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies and is affiliated with the Religious Studies Program, the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Linguistics at UW-Madison. He serves as an interpreter and cultural mediator for Amish in multiple settings.
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Gale Courses Begin
April 14, 2021
Looking to brush up on your language skills, add some technology certifications to make your resume pop, or just want to pick up a new hobby? Your library card gets you free access to dozens of fun and informational online classes through Gale Courses! Click through to learn more.
Gale Courses Begin
May 12, 2021
Looking to brush up on your language skills, add some technology certifications to make your resume pop, or just want to pick up a new hobby? Your library card gets you free access to dozens of fun and informational online classes through Gale Courses! Click through to learn more.
Gale Courses Begin
June 16, 2021
Looking to brush up on your language skills, add some technology certifications to make your resume pop, or just want to pick up a new hobby? Your library card gets you free access to dozens of fun and informational online classes through Gale Courses! Click through to learn more.
Teen Take-Home Craft: Blackout Poetry
April 12, 2021
April is Poetry Month! Celebrate by picking up a take-home kit with materials and instructions to make your own blackout poetry. Because this kit includes permanent markers, we recommend it for teens and preteens.
Teen Take-Home Craft: Personalized Journals
May 10, 2021
Pick up a take-home kit with materials and instructions to make your own personalized journal. Because this kit includes pins for stabbing, we recommend it for teens and preteens.
Elementary-Age STEM - Take Home
April 22, 2021
This month's STEM activity is called 'Oil Spill Cleanup Challenge"! Youth can try cleaning up an oil spill with a variety of tools, and see how difficult it is when there are real life oil spills in nature.
Spring Book Sale
May 21, 2021
Help us with our spring cleaning here at the library! Join us in our Spring Book Sale on Friday, May 21. We will be selling mostly fiction, with a smattering of nonfiction and other literary odds and ends.
New to our sale - take a chance and buy our Mystery Bags filled with surprise titles. Or choose a mystery bag with a special theme depending on what you're in the mood for.
Also, after 1 PM, bring your own grocery bag and fill it up for $5.
Hardcovers are $1 per title. Paperbacks are $0.50 per title. Cash or check only.
Please contact Sara at sdavister@westbendlibrary with any questions. Masks and social distancing are strongly recommended at this sale.
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