VOTE! The Community Library Lecture Hall is a polling location for precincts 3 and 4. Polls open at 8 a.m.
To find your precinct and polling location, or for any other information, contact the Blaine County Elections Office by calling (208) 788-5510 emailing election@blainecounty.org, or visiting https://www.co.blaine.id.us/196/Elections.
Upcoming Featured Events
“Wonder Travels”
with Writer-In-Residence Josh Barkan
Join us for a conversation with Josh Barkan, Writer-In-Residence at the Hemingway House, who will share selections from his forthcoming memoir Wonder Travels (Roundabout Press, September 2023). He’ll be joined by Martha Williams, the Library’s director of programs and education, for a conversation about his new memoir and the craft of writing. A book signing with Iconoclast Books will follow.
Can we ever really know another person? When, after fifteen years of marriage, his wife has an affair with a man she meets on the beach in Morocco, writer Josh Barkan grapples with this question. In this fearless, breathtakingly candid memoir, he maps a painful odyssey from New York to El Paso to the Apache Kid Wilderness to Mexico City, where he falls in love with a painter who begins to heal him. But two years after his wife’s affair, questions still haunt him. Why did she betray him, and with whom? With no more than a cell phone number, Barkan travels to Morocco to find his wife’s lover and confront his own past.
Josh Barkan won the Lightship International Short Story Prize and was runner-up for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, the Paterson Fiction Prize, and the Juniper Prize for Fiction. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his writing has appeared in Esquire. He has taught creative writing at Harvard, NYU, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Hollins University and MIT. His books include the novel Blind Speed and short story collections Before Hiroshima and Mexico (Hogarth/Penguin Random House)—named one of the five best story collections of 2017 by Library Journal. He lives in Boston.
Learning from Peer Communities:
Housing Lessons and Opportunities with Summit County, Colorado’s Housing Director
Jason Dietz started in 2018 as Summit County, Colorado’s Housing Director, focusing on programs to create affordable housing in the area. He spent the previous decade running the Summit Combined Housing Authority, as a construction manager, in property management, and in land acquisitions and development.
In many respects, the Summit County is a peer community and as such has similar struggles. Jason will describe these struggles and successes, what makes resort communities’ housing challenges unique, and what solutions and tools work well there. One such solution is deed-restricting housing units to people who live and/or work in the area and by income – which can be accomplished with a range of tools including homeownership assistance and public-private partnerships to develop housing. Other initiatives include incentivizing accessory development units (ADUs) and the lease to locals program.
Jason Dietz will be joined by Carissa Connelly, Housing Director of the City of Ketchum. Ketchum is implementing its year-one Housing Action Plan adopted May 2022, which includes many actions that mirror Summit County’s efforts.
This program will be livestreamed and available to watch later. In collaboration with the Spur Community Foundation.
Idaho Gives 2023
Heroes Needed to Promote the Freedom to Read…Fearlessly!
“It is within all of us to inspire, motivate, facilitate, and challenge one another to new thinking. Passionately.”
Promote Literacy • Encourage community conversations • Provide completive space • Deepen a sense of place in central Idaho • Elevate diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice
Privately Funded; Publicly Minded
Our mission is to bring information, ideas, and individuals together to enhance the cultural life of the community.
Ten Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s causes changes in memory, thinking and behavior that are not normal aging. Join us to learn about:
- The difference between normal aging and Alzheimer’s.
- Common warning signs.
- The importance of early detection and benefits of diagnosis.
- Next steps and expectations for the diagnostic process.
- Alzheimer’s Association resources.
Gini Ballou has been a resident of the Wood River Valley for over 40 years. Since her mother’s death in 2008, Gini has been an advocate for those with Alzheimer’s and the families that care for them. She regularly speaks with leaders at the Statehouse and is the Alzheimer’s Association’s Ambassador to Congressman Simpson.
This program is presented in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association®. The program will be livestreamed and available to watch later. More/register here: https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/10173030
Fireside Chats: National Library Week
The Community Library is hosting special events to celebrate libraries, library workers, patrons, the love of books, and the freedom to read!
No registration is required for any of the following activities. Drop-in during the posted times.
We look forward to seeing you!
Fireside Chats with Library Staff
April 24-29
Monday-Saturday, noon – 1:00 p.m.
The library staff invite you to join us by our fireplace to share stories and talk about next reads. Tea and sweets will be served.
• Monday, April 24: Candida and Jenny
• Tuesday, April 25: Andrea and Judy
• Wednesday, April 26: Aly and Kelley
• Thursday, April 27: Buffy and Cathy
• Friday, April 28: DeAnn and Nicole
• Saturday, April 29: Janet and Pam
