The Hood River County Library Foundation invites the community to eat, drink and be merry in the library at the fifth annual Feast of Words on Saturday, March 12, from 6-9 p.m. The event will include desserts and savory appetizers, local wine and beer, and live music in the beautiful downtown Hood River Library. It’s a way to experience the library as you never have before.
This year, the Library Foundation’s goal is to raise $30,000 to update the children’s library at the Hood River Library. The children’s library is so popular for its great programs that the staff have asked for help in funding a redesign to make the space more flexible and able to accommodate more events for more kids. This will include replacing some shelving, putting other shelves on wheels so that they are mobile, and sprucing the place up with new paint, flooring and cozy sofas.
One change will be to replace seven-foot shelves with shorter ones more suitable for use in a children’s section.
There will be many fun events for the whole family at the Feast of Words. People can dance along to live music by Tim Mayer’s Groove Project. Children are welcome, too! Library staff will be on hand with activities for kids downstairs in the children’s library, with face-painting by Maija Warner followed by a kids’ parade. There will be live and silent auction items on which people can bid, too, including a Solstice Pizza Dinner for 25 at your home, one week’s lodging in an apartment in Oaxaca, Mexico, and items from many merchants around the county. Or perhaps you’d like to buy a brick so your personal message is ensconced in the revitalized Georgiana Smith Gardens, the greenspace located around the library.
Event sponsors include:
Platinum: Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation
Gold: Cardinal Glass Industries, Copper West Properties, Farm Stand, Insitu
Silver: Duckwall-Pooley Fruit Company, Hood River Inn, and Gorge.net
Double Mountain Brewery and Viento Wines are beer and wine sponsors. Many individuals and businesses have donated auction items or contributed their time or resources to the Library Foundation.
Tickets are $25 each and are available at any library branch, Waucoma Bookstore, Volcanic Bottle Shoppe, or online at hoodriverlibrary.org/foundation. Tickets may also be bought at the event itself. For more information, contact the Hood River County Library District at 541-386-2535, info@hoodriverlibrary.org, or visit their website at hoodriverlibrary.org.
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