Our premier clearance sale of the season…coming mid-September 2024!  All you can stuff into a bag at the Gold Mine Thrift store for only $5! Clean up on apparel and gear, household and kitchen items, boots and shoes for kids and adults, sporting goods, electronics, and whatever else you find “mining for gold.”

Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library.

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A Wellness Speaking Event with Erica Spiegelman 

In partnership with Men’s Second Chance Living, The Community Library welcomes Erica Spiegelman, author and addiction and wellness specialist.

During this presentation, Erica Spiegelman will provide an overview of the four cornerstones of self care: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, and will explore how they are intricately connected to recovery from addiction.

Centered around the principles of Rewired, Erica’s bestselling book on addiction and recovery, this event provides attendees with a rich opportunity to connect with Erica, learn adaptive coping habits, identify triggers and challenges, and discover new pathways for personal growth.

Erica Spiegelman is a wellness specialist, recovery counselor, podcast host, wellness media contributor, and author of the book The Rewired Life Workbook (2019), The Rewired Life (2018) as well as Rewired: A Bold New Approach to Addiction & Recovery (2015), the Rewired Workbook (2017), the Rewired Coloring Book (2017), all published by Hatherleigh Press.In 2022, Hatherleigh Press will publish Erica’s book of recovery-focused affirmations designed to provide a framework for developing positive self-talk habits. Erica holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Arizona and is a California State Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor (CADAC)-II from UCLA.

A book signing with Iconoclast Books will follow. The presentation will be livestreamed on the Library’s Vimeo, and a recording will be available for 24 hours after the event ends. Watch online here.

The Community Library is a polling location for precincts 1, 3 and 4. Precinct 1 is in the Betty Olsen Carr Reading Room, and precincts 3 and 4 are in the John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall. 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. 

Celebrate the end of summer during the Library’s annual open house with fun for the whole family.

We’re booking around and inside the Library with activities for kids and adults, including a photo booth, Chihuly Cylinders Exhibit, Banned Books Bingo, book giveaway, chalk, bubbles & dragonflies, bites & beverages, music, and more.  

Join us Thursday, August 25 from 4:30-6:30pm to Book Around the Library for literacy, history, community, and fun! 

Why? We all make history! 

What in the heck is going on in America? And what can I do to begin to envision a better world? There is perhaps no better way to investigate these questions than to write about them through the form of the American sonnet. The American sonnet is a looser, more musical and inventive variation than its traditional counterpart. Having no required rhyme scheme or specific meter, the poet has freedom to innovate their own constraints within 14 lines. We will compose anywhere between one and three sonnets.

This workshop will be taught by Diane Raptosh, whose collection American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award in poetry. A native Idahoan and the recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016). In 2018 she won the Idaho Governor’s Arts Award in Excellence. She teaches literature and creative writing and co-directs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at the College of Idaho. Her seventh collection, Run: A Verse-History of Victoria Woodhull, was published by Etruscan 2021. Her newest chapbook, Hand Signs from Eternity’s Yurt, was published in June 2022 (Kelsay Books).

Registration is required, as space is limited for this workshop.