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lies to enjoy. Pick up different ones each time you visit the CCL. For adults, there are free take-home activities to help you “Exercise Your Mind.”

Make reading even more interesting by joining “Occupation Poker” fun. The CCL is offering year-long book and movie challenges for adults. To play, check out books or movies at the CCL and note an occupation. Return the forms, draw a card, and become eligible for Abby/Colby Chamber certificates when year-end poker hands are compiled on December 30. The more forms completed throughout the year, the more chances of winning.

The CCL has paper copies of basic 2024 Federal and State tax forms and instructions. Look for them in the library vestibule. Please note that computers are available to download other tax forms; however, there is a charge for printing them.

Stop at Forward Bank, Colby location, to donate books, movies, and puzzles. They will be collecting items for the Friends of the Colby Community Library annual Colby Cheese Days Book and Movie Sale. Until July 1, books and movies (in good condition) may be dropped off at Forward Bank during regular business hours. (Please do not bring the materials to the CCL, as all sorting will be done at Forward Bank.) The sale, sponsored by the Friends of the CCL, will be held on Thursday, July 17 and Friday, July 18 at the Colby Lions Shelter.

In 2025, service projects in memory of Maddie Thums will be packaged in “We Care” take home bags with items to be sewn in the comfort of one’s own home. Pick up projects, beginning March 3, and bring them back completed by month’s end. The items, requested by Marshfield Medical Center, are comfort covers, ice pack covers, and flannel infant blankets.

The Colby Community Library is open M/W/F from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and TU/TH from noon until 7 p.m. The library is closed on weekends during the winter months. Curbside pickup is available during all open hours. Call the library at 715-223-2000 for assistance.