Festival of the Pumpkins
Bring in your decorated or painted pumpkin (not carved) beginning Oct. 4th. Visitors will vote for their favorite pumpkin beginning Oct. 17th with winners announced Oct. 28th
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Whether you’re on the lookout for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or drinks, in Washington, you can find flavorful fare from morning ’til night.
While you’re here, grab your morning coffee, sit down for a food experience, or indulge in a sweet treat!
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Businesses celebrating an anniversary, new ownership, added services, or anything your business may want to celebrate, let us know! We would love to set up an Alive After 5 and/or a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. Interested in learning more? Contact us today!
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Bring in your decorated or painted pumpkin (not carved) beginning Oct. 4th. Visitors will vote for their favorite pumpkin beginning Oct. 17th with winners announced Oct. 28th
Watch Anime, read Manga, talk about Japanese culture and more! This event is free for grades 6-12th. No registration required!
Join us for a “Block Party”, Friday, October 7th from 1:45-2:45. The library has the LEGOS, so join in on the fun! This event is free for grades K-12th. No registration required!
“Downton Abbey: A New Era” will be shown in the Nicola-Stoufer room. For your comfort feel free to bring a lawn chair, blanket and light snack.
Bring your knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sewing projects, etc. for a relaxing hour with your fiber arts friends.
Paige will teach the teens how to draw, paint and learn basic shading and color mixing! You won’t want to miss this fun, fall program!Registration Required! This event is for grades 6th-12th.
Monday, October 10 @ 5:30pm and Tuesday, October 11 @ 2pm in the lower level ReBook roomJoin us for fellowship, playing tunes, and creating harmony in the world! If you don’t play but would love to come and sing along that would be great! Registration not required.
Join us for a meetup of tween Pokémon card collectors! Share your collection, chat about Pokémon, and build your deck by trading cards with your fellow Pokémon enthusiasts. This will be a largely unstructured, kid-led time to trade Pokémon cards. This event is for grades 1-5th.
Join us for Tinker Lab. This event is free for grades K-12th. Enjoy hands-on activities including experiments, art and ideas to tinker with!
This book club’s focus is anything on the NEW shelf, whether it is fiction, nonfiction or biography. Call the library at 653-2726 to register.
Help brainstorm and plan library activities, suggest new books and movies, earn silver cord hours! Open to grades 6th-12th grade.
In October we will be reading any book by John Lescroart.
In October the club will be reading “Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly. Call the library at 653-2726 to register.
Come to Learn about Washington, Iowa’s Latest Designation as one of Iowa’s Great Places. Meet the committee, learn about the program and ask questions!Sponsored by Women of Washington (formerly AAUW), the City of Washington, and the Washington Public Library.
Join us for Movie Madness. This event is free for grades K-12th. We will be watching “Luca”. Registration not required.
We will screen “Arsenic and Old Lace” with Cary Grant followed by discussion about the film.
Join us for a special session with visiting singer/songwriter Carol Montag. She will be giving us a presentation on the craft of songwriting.Free & open to adults & teens.
Carol Montag will be performing original music, as well as the music of Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, & Judy Collins. Free.
Julie will guide us in creating a junk journal, specifically a traveler’s journal. Each person needs to bring a large darning needle, paper cutter, scissors, adhesive (glue or double-sided tape), scrapbook paper and anything special you’d like in your journal.