Every November thousands of writers around the world participate in National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. The challenge? To write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. Think you can do it? Then, I encourage you to participate…
The Library is open! Here's how we've responded to the provincial restrictions announced on September 15th. We will be following capacity restrictions rather than restricting access to our services. So if you, for example, need to use our…
Today the province brought in a mask mandate and announced that the unvaccinated should limit indoor social gatherings due to the rising number of cases in this fourth wave of COVID-19. Since we have no way of telling who is vaccinated and who isn't, it would be irresponsible of us to…
From tie dye shirts to tissue paper art, we did a BUNCH of crafts during the pandemic to keep our hands (and our minds) busy. We shared these with you on our YouTube Channel and our social media pages. Here…
Hatter. Métis. Parent. Student. Friend. Spouse. Social Worker. Canadian. I have many identities on the land of Medicine Hat, Alberta, of Treaty 7 (The last numbered treaty signed in…
People come to Medicine Hat Public Library for many different reasons like borrowing materials, participating in programs, quiet study and just to hang out in our beautiful and welcoming space. Sometimes on top of whatever they came here for, they find a little extra.That's the case with a group of moms who've been attending our Family Storytimes.Connecting at Storytime, these moms have found support and developed friendships that continue outside the library when the stories and the playtime are finished.An older first-time mom, Susan Knight says, "I don’t have any moms that are going through…...read more
