Janice Truex and her grandson Ben Settlemyre enjoy a relaxing afternoon at the library. (Photo provided)

By TERRI RITTER
Public Relations Coordinator, North Webster Community Library

Spring is here and the North Webster Hiking Club is gearing up for its first hike of the season on Friday, April 24. The group will meet in the library parking lot at 7:45 that morning, form a carpool, and travel to Detering and Lonidaw Nature Preserve in Noble County near Kendallville.

It will be a good opportunity to observe spring foliage along lanes and trails that wind through hardwood forests, wetlands and lakeshore. There are no entrance fees to the nature preserves, but passengers in each car will share gas expenses. Adults of all ages are welcome to join the hike and must sign a liability waiver and emergency medical form.

Led by Kevin McGonagle, the North Webster Hiking Club has many more hikes planned throughout the summer and fall. Details for the April 24 hike are available at the library or by calling (574) 834-7122 ext. 205.

As hikers look forward to exploring nature, Writer’s Corner will be exploring another kind of experience as participants share the essays they have written about a cooking disaster at 10 a.m. Monday, April 20. It promises to be an amusing time as each shares their written stories. You don’t have to be an accomplished writer to be a part of Writer’s Corner, just someone who enjoys writing or wants to learn how. So dash off an essay on your cooking disaster and join us on Monday.

Later that day at 5:30 p.m. Read, Eat And Discuss Book Club will meet to discuss “Winter’s Bone” by Daniel Woodrell, a country noir novel set in the Ozarks. Next month, R.E.A.D. Book Club will read and discuss “The Red Heart” by James Alexander Thom, an historical novel about Frances Slocum and her life among the Miami Indians.

In the Youth Services Department, children in kindergarten through third grade are invited to the library after school at 3:30 p.m. April 21, for the weekly Tuesday Crafts and Stories to make crafts and listen to stories. Then it is Family Movie Time at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 23, when the library shows an animated Disney film about a mysterious beast that the fairies fear will destroy their home. The movie is rated G and runs 79 minutes. The popcorn is free, and families are welcome to bring their own beverages.

If you hold a library card from another Evergreen library anywhere in the state, you can use that card to check out materials at the North Webster Community Public Library. Also, materials that have been borrowed from an Evergreen library can be returned to any Evergreen library, regardless of where they were borrowed from.

There are currently 107 Evergreen libraries serving Indiana residents in 60 counties around the state, including North Webster and several others in Kosciusko and surrounding counties. A North Webster Evergreen library card is free to residents of Tippecanoe Township. If you don’t have one, apply at the front desk and gain access to libraries statewide.