SRP features tech, crafts,
and everything in between 
The library's Summer Reading Program, Every Hero Has a Story, is fast approaching, with online registration beginning June 8!
Check our website starting that Monday and follow the prompts that will allow you to easily and quickly sign your kids up for this year's program - no more waiting in line! This is just one way we're making participating in the SRP convenient for parents and fun for kids. Book logs, too, will be paperless and online, this year, allowing readers to keep track of their accomplishments from home!
As usual, this year's SRP is packed with exciting and educational activities and events. Starting Monday, June 22, you can sign up for these programs online, as well, through the library's homepage calendar.
The coding programs offered during the winter were so popular, the library's offering more during the SRP.
This year's SRP will feature more tech workshops and programs than ever before, including a 3D printing program for teens, tweens, and their families; the 3DS XL Street Pass Club featuring the popular game Animal Crossing; and introductions to computer programming that will include the Hour of Code and Masters of Code!
Other season highlights will include:
  • Family Story Times and MakeIT Spaces full of creative activities
  • Drawing and Techniques offered by a talented art student
  • LEGO events like Snapology and the Digital Design Lab
  • Minecraft programs, including free play and team quests
  • Crafts such as papier mache bowls and wood burning
  • Behind the Scenes, an acting program with Ana Wakeman
  • Super Hero Boot Camp
  • Zines for Teens
And much, much more!
The SRP kicks off with a June 30 performance by Jester Jim at 6:30 p.m. on the library lawn and continues through to the Aug. 4 finale featuring Flow Circus.
Keep an eye on the website for more information, including the upcoming SRP brochure detailing the summer's many programs and events!
Books Alive! troupe performs tomorrow!
Jillian Landsman and other cast members rehearse for tomorrow's musical.
The library's children's theater company, Books Alive, will celebrate their tenth and final season with two performances tomorrow at the John G. Borden Middle School.
The musical It's All About the Books will take place at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Donations will be accepted at the door: $5 per person or $20 for families of four or more, with kids under 4 getting in for free.
 The drawing for the Friends of the Library raffle will take place after the intermission during the 5 p.m. performance. First prize is an iPad mini 2 4g, which also comes with a cover, and second is a 15.4" Coby LCD HD TV.
Don't forget to bring some cash for the bake sale, which will be held outside the auditorium!
Coming up at the Wallkill Public Library
The Girl Scouts visited the library and made marshmallows recently during their Off the Grid event.
Monday: The library's Board of
Trustees meet at 7 p.m.
Tuesday: Textile Tuesday takes place between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the community room of Town Hall. Come network with the Quilters' Circle and work on projects of your own.
Wednesday: Toddler Story Time is offered at 10 a.m. and again at 11:15 a.m.
Thursday: The Adult Fiction Club meets at 6:30 p.m. to discuss Lisa Genova's Still Alice and Left Neglected. The Knit and Crochet Club also meets at 6:30 p.m.
Grants provide programming funds
The library recently won two mini-grants whose funds will go towards new and innovative programs being offered this summer!
The Every Hero Has Serious Fun Family Literacy mini-grant's $340 award allowed the library to purchase a new Nintendo 3DS XL as well as related games and equipment. The purchases will be used to provide a program centered around the game Animal Crossing, which will teach participants about the heroes in their community.
The other family literacy mini-grant is for $500, which will be used to provide a tween, teen, and family summer reading program centered around a 3D printer!
Hailed by The Economist as a component in the "third industrial revolution," 3D printers are being used to manufacture everything from action figures and jewelry to prosthetics and hearing aids. Libraries are at the hub of this cutting edge technology, and Wallkill's proud to be able to offer it.
You can sign up for either of these programs starting June 22, through the library's website.
Find out about May's Mystery Quilt Block
Anita's Arrowhead is the pattern for the first block of the Mystery Quilt.
The library's Quilters' Circle kicked off their Mystery Quilt Block Challenge during the recent Textile Saturday event, and even if you weren't there, you can still participate!
Directions for the Anita's Arrowhead pattern can be found here, with illustrations here.
Each month, a new block will be revealed and quilters will receive instructions and a tutorial on how to replicate it. Once all the blocks are complete, a 36-inch sample will be created.
The next quilt block will be revealed during the June 17 Quilters' Circle meeting in the community room of Town Hall.
Carpe Diem golf outing set for Osiris
The Osiris Country Club boasts beautiful greens just a short drive away.
Stewart Crowell was not only a respected library board trustee, but a community leader who constantly sought to help others while striving to better the hamlet of Wallkill in which he lived.
While he's passed on, his legacy continues through causes like the Stewart A. Crowell Foundation, which provides scholarships to graduating seniors at Wallkill Senior High School.
The Carpe Diem Golf Event to benefit that foundation will be held July 20 at the Osiris Country Club in Walden.
The day's $200 entry fee includes not only 18 holes of golf, but lunch, a goody bag, prizes, a three-hour open bar, live musical entertainment, a buffet dinner, and a raffle and silent auction.
 For those who would rather skip the golf and attend the post-game festivities, $75 is the cost for the open bar, live entertainment, buffet dinner, and the raffle and silent auction.
For more information or to register, visit the Crowell Foundation website.
Show to raise money for music grads
A student scholarship variety show will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Wallkill Senior High School.
Admission is $5 per person. Ticket sales will go toward scholarships for graduating music students.
A bake sale and raffles will also be offered that evening.
If you can't make the show but would still like to support the cause, donations can be made out to SOME (Supporters of Music Education), c/o Plattekill Elementary School, PO Box 385, Plattekill, NY 12568.
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