Library News
Dr. Seuss’s Birthday week!
Join the wacky fun from February 28th to March 2nd at the Library.
Library Littles Stay & Play February 18th at 1pm
Play Date for children 0-3 and parent/caregiver featuring a community partner from Thrive.
Digital Books
eBooks and digital audiobooks FREE from the State Library of Kansas.
Everything Chocolate Sale
Everything Chocolate is the theme for a month-long celebration of chocolate that gets underway this week at the Iola Public Library. It’s set to culminate Feb. 14 with the return of the Valentine’s Day Chocolate Sale fundraiser sponsored by Friends of the Library. The annually anticipated sale of homemade confections donated and festively packaged by volunteers was last held in 2020 due to the pandemic. Volunteers to donate goodies or time are directed to call 620-365-3262.
Iola’s own candy story. Russell Sifers, speaker. Jan. 19, 7 pm. Meeting Room.
Valomilk–the little chocolate candy cups with melty marshmallow centers–are an Iola original, created at the Sifers Candy Company in 1931. Valomilk became so popular the company stopped making boxed chocolates. Today Sifers makes Valomilk in Merriam, Kans. Come hear the story and share the memories.
The Sifers Candy Company, founded here in 1903, gets its due with a historical exhibit in the lobby through Feb. 3. Allen County Historical Society loaned photographs and candy making equipment for the exhibit. Sifers left Iola in 1978 after the company sold in a merger.
Valomilk was invented by chance, became popular throughout the Midwest and went to war with the troops. According to Russell Sifers, great-grandson of the company founder, Valomilk is the happy accident of a happy candy maker who imbibed too much vanilla. Sifers will speak at the library 7 p.m. Thurs., Jan.19. He will bring Valomilks.
LEGO free play evening coming
January 24th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm in the meeting room, we will offer LEGO free play. Anyone is welcome.
Storytime with Lesa on Wednesday.
Storytime with Lesa. January 11th at 10:30 am. Winter is the theme. We hope to see you Wednesday morning! Stories, singing, some dancing and lots of fun is to be had.
Youth Services January 2023 Calendar of events
YOUTH program. Can you hear what you eat?
All youth are welcome for this project. January 16th at 2 pm at Iola Public Library. Just let us know if you would like to get signed up.
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