Greetings from the Great Bend Public Library, and happy spooky month! What better way to celebrate the beginning of October than with an Oktoberfest Trivia Night at Dry Lake Brewery? Enjoy a delicious craft beer while you’re quizzed on everything from the traditions of Oktoberfest to beer making to Germany itself. The winning team will even win, you guessed it, free beer among other fabulous prizes in the true spirit of Oktoberfest. Trivia starts at 7 p.m. on Oct. 3rd. There is still time to register your team of four online on our website or come at 6:30 to register in person.
Trivia, not your thing? Well, we have something for everyone this Thursday starting with our regular Genealogy Thursday at 11 a.m., then at 1:30 p.m. and again at 3:30 p.m. for those participating in the Smokey the Bear Reading Challenge join us at the library to take a virtual visit to Yellow Stone National Park. Then that evening at 6 p.m. it’s time for another Delicious Dishes cooking class. This month we travel all the way across the world to sample a Korean staple, Kimchi! And don’t worry, for those who don’t like it hot I hear Miss Lisa has whipped up a mild batch.
Friday is a spooky double feature with two spooktacular things to do at the library. First, we have our teen Casual Game Friday and this time we are trying our best to survive Five Nights a Freddy Fazbear’s haunted pizzeria. Can you make it through five terror-filled nights as a security guard with limited power and only doors and cameras to help you fend off the terrifying animatronics lurking around every corner of the pizzeria? Then at 7 p.m., it’s time for this month’s Adult’s Night Out Movie. The spooks and specters continue with this month’s pick as we follow the Spengler family in their return to the big screen and the iconic New York City firehouse, home of the original “Ghostbusters”. When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, it’s up to the Spanglers and there allies to save the world from a new ice age filled with ghosts.
Monday special guest Veronica Coons from the Barton County Conservation District is coming to the library to teach us the importance of forests and to help us create a publicity poster for conserving our forests. She will be here from 10:30 a.m. to noon and then again from 1-3 p.m. This event is geared toward those in 1st grade through 8th grade. Then that afternoon at 4 p.m. we have Creativiteens, where teens will have the chance to combine technology and markers to make their own postcards or wall art.
Our Tuesday morning story times continue next week, with Baby Bounce Story Time from 9:30-10 a.m., and Early Literacy Story Time from 10:30-11 a.m. Although our two story times are intended to engage specific age groups, families may bring children of any age to the story time that fits their family and schedule best. Tuesdays of Terror will continue with a movie at 4 p.m. where we see what happens when the whole world goes quiet. We follow a family who tries to continue life as normally and quietly as they can in the midst of an alien threat.
Lastly, on Wednesday Tween Scene continues from 3:30-5 p.m. Tweens in grades 3-5 who feel a little too old for story time but are too young to be in the Teen Spot can hang out and get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a teen at the library.
Hannah Grippin is outreach manager at the Great Bend Public Library. To see what else they are up to at the library, find it on social media @greatbendpl and visit the website, greatbendpl.info. You can also message GBPL on Facebook, send email to gbcirc@gmail.com, or call 620-792-2409 with any questions about programming or services.
