Summer reading programs abound at the Baker County Library<\/p>\n
Published 5:00 am Thursday, June 18, 2026<\/p>\n
BAKER CITY \u2014 Summer reading programs are underway at the Baker County Public Library, and this year\u2019s theme is \u201cPlant a Seed, Read!\u201d<\/p>\n
Readers of all ages can track reading time on paper forms available at the library, 2400 Resort St., or through the Beanstack app. The program\u2019s final day is Aug. 7 and features a party \u2014 with prizes \u2014 to celebrate all the reading minutes logged during the summer.<\/p>\n
But the summer program isn\u2019t just about books \u2014 library staff have a bunch of activities planned for the next few months.<\/p>\n
Every Tuesday, families can join a walk on the Leo Adler Memorial Parkway at 8:15 a.m., then stick around for storytime in the park at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
Arts and crafts for all ages is held on Thursdays from 9-11 a.m., and Kindermusik with Building Healthy Families also happens Thursdays at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
Several book clubs are on the schedule \u2014 the adult book club reads mystery\/thriller and meets on the third Wednesday at noon; the Tween Book Club (June 24) and Kids Book Club (July 1) meet every other Wednesday, on alternating weeks; and the Teen Book Club meets Mondays at noon. Pick up a schedule at the library for details.<\/p>\n
In July, look for the \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d activity at the library.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at the next few weeks:<\/p>\n
June 23: Pajama Storytime, 6 p.m.
\nJune 24: Museum of Natural and Cultural History (learn about Oregon bees); 10 a.m.
\nJune 24: Teen Movie and Craft, 4-6 p.m.
\nJune 25: Thursday movie, 4 p.m.
\nJune 26: Teen Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), 2:30 p.m.
\nJune 27: Little D&D, 1 p.m.
\nJune 29: Bridge City Theatre, 10 a.m.; Teen Book Club, noon; Tween Games, 3 p.m.
\nJune 30: Go STEM Mobile Maker Lab, 10 a.m.; Intro to D&D, 3 p.m.
\nJuly 1: YMCA activities in the park, 10 a.m.
\nJuly 7: Stitch \u2018n\u2019 Flix, 6 p.m. (bring a craft to work on while watching a movie)
\nJuly 8: Field trip to the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer reading programs abound at the Baker County Library Published 5:00 am Thursday, June 18, 2026 BAKER CITY…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-222190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}