The Whitman County Library’s 15th annual penny drive began Monday and will run throughout the month of April. All 14 of the Whitman County Rural Library District’s branches are accepting donations of coins, dollars and checks for this year’s penny drive. Donors can deposit their money in the piggy banks, jars and/or cans located at each of.
The Whitman County Library District’s annual Food for Fines program is back and better than ever for the entire month of February. Food for Fines began Feb. 1 at all 14 library branches located around Whitman County and will end on Monday, Feb. 28. Catalina Flores, public services manager for the Whitman County Library District,.
In May 1992, I was hired as librarian for the St. John branch of the Whitman County Library District, and given the keys to the library. At the time, I
Washington State Patrol identified the two people who died in a single-vehicle rollover crash Wednesday afternoon 15 miles west of Colfax on State Route 26.
The Whitman County Rural Library System is holding a penny drive as part of National Library Week.
National Library Week is April 4-10, but the Whitman County Library will run their fundraiser through the end of the month, said public services librarian Sarah Phelan-Blamires.
National Library Week celebrates libraries across the country, and the county
uses this time to gain traction and get donations from patrons, said Sheri Miller, library associate director and youth services manager.
The library system offers multiple children’s programs, a digital library, Wi-Fi, printing, movies, newspapers and magazines.
At each of the 14 branch locations, patrons can donate spare change that goes toward youth programs like story time to-go bags and science crafts, Miller said. The funding stays within the branch that donors give to.