June 3– Kickoff @ Grace Fellowship  6:30 Participants will travel around the world to the settings used by beloved children’s book author/illustrator Jan Brett.  Snacks and activities for the whole family will follow an interactive program.   June 12 & July 10 @ Library 3:00-5:00–   Wii Wednesdays Come test your knowledge and skills with a variety of games for younger [...]

Follow this link to access online stories and more! http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=eplibrary&P=libra

Heartland Bank, with a little help from the Friends of the El Paso Public Library, is sponsoring an Ice Cream Social and Concert In the Park.  It will be held Thursday, June 2oth.  Refreshments will be served at 6:30 through intermission, and the concert begins at 7:00.   Illinois Rail will provide Bluegrass/Gospel music.    Bring your lawn chairs or blankets and your sweet tooth!  

Those who came to our 1st Wii Wednesday got to try out our new Wii game called ‘Disney Universe’.  It was challenging!  Others played the World Geography and Trivia game or Where In The World is Carmen San Diego.  Disney Universe will be available for checkout by next week. Our next Wii Wednesday will be July 10th and will feature 2 games with up to 4 players at a time ( a total of 8). [...]

The 1000 piece puzzle titled “Travel Dreams” has bee completed!  Next week we will put out an old-world map for everyone to work on.  Let’s see how long it takes for that one to get finished.

Helitech is, as we write this, drilling into our historic foundation to assure it stays around for another 100 years!  They need to reinforce the foundation so the new foundation can be finished.  In the pictures below Helitech is operating the white machine (don’t as what to call it) and Hein is using the backhoe to continue digging our new foundation!  We don’t know what the pipes [...]

    This week we are celebrating Lori!  Lori is a faithful library patron who loves to read biographies.    If you are ever on the ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’  game show and are given a question on the royal family, Lori would be an excellent choice for  ’phone-a-friend’!   Lori is the kind of patron that librarians especially enjoy in that she is considerate [...]

….. is where construction begins! The first picture below is of the west wall of the library.  The plywood is boarding up the doorway classes from JP used when visiting the library during the school year.  All that is left of the steps and doorway is a 6-8 foot hole!  The second picture is what is left of the outside of the structure.  The doorway had to go to make room for Helitech to come [...]

Hein Construction has been at work digging out around the foundation for the new addition!  Dirt has been dug and removed, and more dirt dug.  The west entrance, that school classes used when they visited the library, has been closed off and removed.  Helitech is scheduled to begin work on our existing foundation to assure it stays where it is!  We can hear the sound of progress from inside the [...]

Be sure to bring in your coins to vote for your 2 favorite movies from a selection of 6!  There are voting cans on the children’s checkout desk with titles of 6 episodes of Scooby around the world.  Pick your favorite two and place coins in those cans.  We will watch the top two vote-getters at our event June 18.  We will have Scooby Snacks and begin the show at 3:30.  Join us and bring [...]

Because of the rainy weather, Hein Construction was forced to start later and therefore move back completion of the addition to November.  We have been very happy to hear construction equipment outside the library since Wednesday, June 5th!  Please be patient if you can’t get to something, or it takes us a little longer to get to you.  Thanks for your understanding!

We will have a  great time playing games from around the world, or about the world , Wednesday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00.  Bring your friends and hang out playing a selection of games.  Don’t worry if you miss this one.  We will have another Wii Wednesday July 10th.