The Friends of the Library held their annual Christmas Bake Sale on December 13. There were many, many delicious baked items as well as time to visit with friends over a cup of coffee and roll. Approximately 100 people attended the morning event with nearly $800 in sales. Thank you to all those who baked items and also for purchasing items to help the Friends of the Library.
Children made Christmas tree ornaments for our tree in the Library. The ornaments were made with folded cupcake/muffin papers to look like a tree and then decorated with bling! 
The evening and noon What’s Cookin’ groups met in December. Hostesses were Brenda Alberts, Cheryl Loschen, Dona Casper and Pat Beck. The evening group served taco bites, turkey salad on croissants, snowman cheeseball with crackers, upsidedown cranberry cake and hot cider. The noon group served chicken roll-ups with cheese sauce, cheesecake, plates of fudge and candy and hot cider. Great food and a fun time!!
A special story time and cookie decorating for the preschool class was December 18. We read several Christmas books and The Book with no Pictures followed by the children decorating their sugar cookies and eating them. Also, after school on Dec. 18, K – 8th grades decorated sugar cookies and ate them. We had some great decorators!
On December 22 there will be a party after school with stories, games and refreshments for K – 8th grades. We will be opening some special gifts for the library. Crafts will be on Monday, Dec. 29. Toddler/Preschool age at 3 p.m. and K-8th grades will make duct tape projects at 2 p.m. Game Day and hot chocolate will be on Tuesday, Dec. 30 – toddlers/preschool at 3 p.m. and K-8th grades at 2 p.m. On Friday, Jan. 2 will be movie & popcorn at 2 p.m. for all ages. Finally on Monday, Jan. 5 we will be cooking at 2 p.m. for grades K – 8th.
It was a very busy month! Thank you for all your support this year. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!