Here’s a list of upcoming activities at Bell Memorial Public Library in Mentone:
• Join us for story hour every Friday at 10 a.m. Children listen to a story, sing songs and make a craft.
• Creepy cookie decorating: Join us at 1:30 p.m. Sunday to decorate a creepy cookie.
• Halloween Party – We will be having a Halloween party from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The party is open for kids and teens up to age 18. We will be serving pizza, a drink and cookies. Activities will include playing Halloween bingo and making glow-in-the-dark slime. Reservations are needed by Monday and can be made at the library.
• Trick-or-treaters: be sure to stop by the library between 5:30 and 7 p.m. on Wednesday for trick-or-treating.
• Have you heard of Hoopla? It’s a digital media service that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, e-Books, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet or phone.
With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later; titles cannot be downloaded to computers.
• Do you love fitness? If so, please join us every Wednesday evening for Zumba and yoga.
Zumba begins at 5:30 p.m. and yoga begins at 6:45 p.m. For more information, contact Eva Mudd at 574-253-5593 or evamudd@ yahoo.com.
• The library is circulating an internet hotspot. These devices are about the size of a large cell phone and connect the user to the internet via cellphone towers.
The device will circulate for a week and units can be reserved.
For more information, contact Stephen Boggs at 574-353-7234 or via e-mail at sboggs@bell.lib.in.us.
• New books coming soon: “The Range Detective” by William W. Johnstone; “The Reluctant Warrior” by Mary Connealy; “Rise of the Mystics” by Ted Dekker; “Season of Wonder” by RaeAnne Thayne; “Spectacle” by Rachel Vincent; “Target” by James Patterson; “The Three Beths” by Jeff Abbott; “Torture of the Mountain Men” by William W. Johnstone; “Trump’s Enem-ies” by Corey R. Lewan-dowski; “Under My Skin” by Lisa Unger; “Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism” by Peter J. Hotez; “What to Eat During Cancer Treatment” by American Cancer Society; “When the Men Were Gone” by Marjorie Harrera Lewis; “Winter in Paradise” by Elin Hilderbrand; “Wrecked” by Joe Ide; and “Yule Log Murder” by Leslie Meier.
