Coos Bay Public Library, 525 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay, OR - Pickup/Drop-off Eastside, Friday, March 20 at the Eastside Fire Station, 365 D Street, Coos Bay, 9:00am – 9:30am. Return or pick up library materials every Friday in front of the Eastside Fire Department. Age Bracket: Everyone. Pickup/Drop-off Empire, Friday, March 20 at the Empire Fire Station, 189 S Wall Street, Coos Bay, 10:00am – 10:30am. Pickup or drop-off library materials in front of the Empire Fire Station. Age Bracket: Everyone. Tween Club, Friday, March 20 in the Cedar Room, 3:00pm – 4:30pm. The Coos Bay Public Library is starting a Tween Club for tweens age 10-14 (5th-8th grade). Join us for arts, crafts, conversations and snacks every third Friday of the month. Age Bracket: Kids & Teens. Lanzamiento del Club de Lectura, Friday, March 20 in the Myrtlewood Room, 5:00pm – 6:00pm. Únete con nosotros para el lanzamiento del nuevo club de lectura completamente en español. Tendremos copias del libro gratis disponibles en cantidad limitada. También habrá comida y bebidas. El club de lectura, se reunirá el tercer viernes de cada mes. Trae tus ideas y sugerencias para las siguientes lecturas. Join us as we launch our new book club entirely in Spanish. We will have free copies of the book available as well as food and beverages. The book club will meet the 3rd Friday of every month. Come with your ideas and suggestions for what books you'd like to see in this book club. Age Bracket: Teens & Adults. ¡Spanglish! Conversational Program, Saturday, March 21 in the Stacks, 10:30am – 11:30am. We meet at the library every third Saturday @ 10:30am! Program is for those who wish to practice their Spanish conversational skills and help other learners in a friendly setting. Attendees will have the opportunity to converse in Spanish as a group for one hour in a casual, informal environment. This is NOT a class but we will provide ideas for conversational topics. Beginners are welcome. ¡Vamos a hablar! Program is FREE and open to everyone. Practice your Spanish using our Free (w/your library card) language resource. Age Bracket: Teens & Adults. Clothing Swap, Saturday, March 21 in the Myrtlewood Room, 12:00pm – 3:00pm. A free community event where the public’s invited to bring clean, reusable, portable items such as clothing. This event is for CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES ONLY. PLEASE DO NOT BRING UNDERGARMENTS OR SWIMWEAR. You don’t have to bring something to take something. Please do NOT bring: housewares, games, books, toys, furniture, large items, tube televisions, expired or open food, unsealed personal care products, medicine, dirty or ripped clothing, underwear or undergarments, fabric scraps, incomplete toys and games, non-working electronics, magazines, or sharp objects. This event runs from 12:30 pm-3:00 pm with donations accepted from 12:00 pm- 2:30 pm. How does it work? Simply drop any items at our "drop-off" table. We'll sort them and put them out on our display tables. Limited to dropping off 5 items. Please bring in your lightly used articles of clothing. We ask that you run your clothes through the dryer to freshen them up before bringing them in. Items on the display tables are free on a first come, first served basis. Age Bracket: Everyone. Craft Takeout, Kits available at 12:00pm on Saturday, March 21. Calling all crafty teens and adults! Have an appetite to get creative? Pick up a free monthly Craft Takeout kit in the library on the 3rd Saturday of each month. How-to instructions and everything needed to create the monthly project will be included in each Craft Takeout kit. Limit one Craft Takeout kit per person. Kits are available for pickup in the library while supplies last. A limited number of kits are available and are first come, first serve. Age Bracket: Teens & Adults. Ongoing Programs: Fabric Donations Needed. Feeling generous with your fabric stash? Please consider donating a bag of fabric to the Coos Bay Library for use in our twice-monthly sewing classes with OCATEC. Limit one bag per person per week. 100% cotton or linen fabrics only, please. We are unable to accept fabrics which have been exposed to cigarette smoke. Our sewing classes are free to the public and enormously popular, so your donation goes a long way towards keeping fabric arts alive in our community. Ark Project Food Drive. Survey Link in EnglishSurvey Link in Spanish; CRAFT SWAP INFO, Coming Up: Arts & Crafts Swap, Saturday, March 28 in the Myrtlewood Room, 12:00pm – 4:00pm. You asked, we listened! This year we'll be holding TWO Craft Swaps, one in March and one in November. Have extra art supplies in good condition? Help us divert materials from landfills while encouraging environmentally friendly creation! HOW IT WORKS: Community members who are interested can donate their new or gently used art supplies they no longer need to the Coos Bay Public Library from March 16 - through the day of the Art Swap on March 28. On the day of the Art Swap, come to our big meeting room and browse to see what art supplies you might be interested in! You can take up to as much as you donate (or just a couple items if you don't have anything to donate). DONATION GUIDELINES: Arts and craft materials only, must be fit for reuse (new or gently used), must fit in your car, and be of the following categories: sewing materials, fabric, threads, needles, etc.; yarn, crochet and knitting tools; paintbrushes, tubes and bottles of paint, canvases and drawing pads; stringing and beads; paper, card stock, scrapbooking; stickers, stamps, and stencils; frames or easels, art project kits; fun crafty items, pom poms, pipe cleaners, glitter etc. Materials to leave at home: broken or dried out materials, electric equipment, lumber, wood, or loose boards, in-progress art works, smelly materials like solvents and gallons of paint.

CBPL Tween Club

CBPL release - The Coos Bay Public Library Tween Club meets on the third Friday of every month from 3-4:30PM. This group is open to Tweens between the ages of 9-14 and each month features a different activity. The March activity will be painting pottery. In April we will be having the great cookie taste off to decide once and for all which cookie is the best! Come and join us for fun activities, conversations, and of course snacks!