Cultural Arts Commission Meeting
2025-03-17 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sherwood Center for the Arts, 22689 Pine St., Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

City Council Meeting
2025-03-18 17:30 - 20:00 | https://www.youtube.com/user/CityofSherwood

URA Board Meeting
2025-03-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

Library Advisory Board Meeting
2025-03-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Sherwood City Hall / Library, Exec Board Room (Conference Room A), 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

Police Advisory Board
2025-03-20 19:00 | Sherwood Police Department, Community Room, 20495 SW Borchers Drive, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

Hearings Officer Meeting - March 31, 2025
2025-03-31 17:30 - 18:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tgwmkJZSzI

TeenLAB
2025-04-01 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-15 16:00
TeenLAB is a Teen Library Advisory Board. It’s aim is to volunteer time to advocate and to improve the library for youth. It’s also a great place to build your resume.
In this 1-hour program for youth 7th-12th grade, attendees gain a variety of skills: working with others, planning projects, completing projects, teamwork, and more.
This program is in-person only and because of the varied projects, meeting location changes according to the project. Arrive at the front desk 5 minutes early to inquire where the group is meeting.
For questions pertaining to this event, please email askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov

City Council Meeting
2025-04-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-15 19:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

All Ages Storytime Session 2
2025-04-02 10:15 - 11:15, 2025-04-09 10:15 - 11:15
Let’s grow together in literacy! Join us for an interactive program where we read books, enjoy puppets, sing songs, and play action rhymes.
This program is planned for kids ages birth to 6. All ages and abilities are welcome.
A 15 minute playtime follows session 1 and a 30 minute playtime follows session 2 storytime.
We try to create a welcoming environment for everyone. If your child has special needs, please let a staff member know and we will try to accommodate.

Baby Storytime
2025-04-03 09:30 - 10:00, 2025-04-10 09:30 - 10:00
Baby Storytime is a great way to introduce your child to the love of reading and books.
We lead parents and caregivers in an interactive experience that will have you bouncing, tickling, singing, and enjoying books together with your baby.
This program is designed for both the child, ages 0-12 months, and their adult(s).
Attendees, please bring a blanket for your baby to be on and your own toys.
15 minutes of playtime follows this storytime.

Fun for Ones Storytime
2025-04-03 10:15 - 10:45, 2025-04-10 10:15 - 10:45
Fun for Ones is the perfect next step for your walking one-year-old.
We will sing, dance, read, and create an experience for you and your child to grow the love of books and reading at this in-person event.
This program is designed for youth, ages 12-23 months, and their caregivers.
30 minutes of playtime follows this storytime.

Enjoy our storytime activity sheets!
Alphabet-themed coloring sheets.
Letter Knowledge worksheets.
Letter Matching Worksheets.
Alphabet Pages with Math Concepts Coloring Sheets.

Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Meeting
2025-04-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

Toddler Storytime
2025-04-08 09:30 - 10:15, 2025-04-15 09:30 - 10:15
Unfortunately, we need to cancel Storytime this morning. Open Play will be available in the Community Room in its place.

Are you ready to sing, dance, play and listen? Then you’re ready for Toddler Storytime!
We create an interactive experience for you and your child to grow the love of books and reading at this in-person event.
This program is designed for ages 2-3 years and their caregivers. However, any ages is welcomed to attend.
15 minutes of playtime follows storytime.
At our storytimes, we understand that your child might not sit still during the whole program. Storytime is a place to practice skills your child will need when they enter school. Attending storytime regularly will make a difference.
We understand that you might need to leave during the program because your child is feeling a lot of emotions. If you leave, you are allowed to reenter the room at anytime. Or, come back when you can, another day.
If your child has sensitivity to light or sound, please let us know—we can make adjustments.

Toddler Storytime
2025-04-08 10:15 - 11:15, 2025-04-15 10:15 - 11:15
Are you ready to sing, dance, play and listen? Then you’re ready for Toddler Storytime!
We create an interactive experience for you and your child to grow the love of books and reading at this in-person event.
This program is designed for ages 2-3 years and their caregivers. However, any ages is welcomed to attend.
20 minutes of playtime follows storytime.
At our storytimes, we understand that your child might not sit still during the whole program. Storytime is a place to practice skills your child will need when they enter school. Attending storytime regularly will make a difference.
We understand that you might need to leave during the program because your child is feeling a lot of emotions. If you leave, you are allowed to reenter the room at anytime. Or, come back when you can, another day.
If your child has sensitivity to light or sound, please let us know—we can make adjustments.

Planning Commission Meeting
2025-04-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

All Ages Storytime Session 1
2025-04-09 09:30 - 10:15, 2025-04-16 09:30 - 10:15

Teen Book Club 2024-2025
2025-04-09 15:30
Are you a teen in high school who loves reading? Join Teen Book Club. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, we’ll meet discuss books, have a snack, and do related activities. Try to read the book before each meeting so we can talk about it.
Free book at registration while supplies last. Sponsored by Friends of the Sherwood Public Library.
Books read in Teen Book Club may contain mature content.
Email us at askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov or call 503-625-6688 to register and get your book to read before the club meeting.
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Dates: Oct 2024-May 2025,
2nd Wednesday of each month

Oct 9th, 2024
Nov 13th, 2024
Dec 11th, 2024
Jan 8th, 2025
Feb 12th, 2025
Mar 12th, 2025
Apr 9th, 2025
May 14th, 2025

Place: Sherwood Public Library Community Room, First Floor Lobby
Book List:
Oct 9th, 2024: Jackaby, by William Ritter
“Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary-including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain the foul deeds are the work of the kind of creature whose very existence the local police seem adamant to deny.”
Nov 13th, 2024: War Girls, by Tochi Onyebuchi
“The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect them from the harsh, radiation-heavy climate. Across the nation, as the years-long civil war wages on, survival becomes the only way of life. Two sisters, Onyii and Ify, dream of more. Their lives have been marked by violence and political unrest. Still, they dream of peace, of hope, of a future together. And they’re willing to fight an entire war to get there.”
Dec 11th, 2024: I Hunt Killers, by Barry Lyga
“Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious “Dear Old Dad,” but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father’s wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town’s newest murderer, ‘The Impressionist.'”
Jan 8th, 2025: Dispatches From Parts Unknown, by Bryan Bliss
“Julie knows it’s unusual that a professional wrestler runs a constant commentary on her life that only she can hear. But grief can be awfully funny sometimes. National Book Award nominee Bryan Bliss delivers a thought-provoking, one-of-a-kind novel about how to tread the line between moving on and holding on.”
Feb 12th, 2025: Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland
“When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania– derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. But it’s not a life Jane wants. When families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy… and the restless dead are the least of her problems.”
Mar 12th, 2025: Everything We Never Had, by Randy Ribay
“…an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships. Told in multiple perspectives, Everything We Never Had unfolds like a beautifully crafted nesting doll, where each Maghabol boy forges his own path amid heavy family and societal expectations, passing down his flaws, values, and virtues to the next generation, until it’s up to Enzo to see how he can braid all these strands and men together.”
Apr 9th, 2025: Night Owls, by A.R. Vishny
“In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York’s monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are, all of them, lost forever.”
May 14th, 2025: Kindling, by Traci Chee
“After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings–elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives–must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.”

Adult Book Discussion: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2025-04-09 18:00
Read. Be inspired. Discuss.
We’re hosting a book discussion in person at the library. If you love to talk about the books you’ve read, join us for a lively discussion of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, which will be available as an e-book and audiobook in Libby as well as physical library copies which can be checked out. The first 10 people to register for this program can be given copies of the book provided generously by Friends of Sherwood Public Library.
Registration online is encouraged but not required. Click here to register.
From the publisher:
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor’s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

Fiction Friends
2025-04-10 16:00 - 17:00
Fiction Friends is a book club for youth 6th-8th grade.
If you like to read, this is the program for you!
We read the book in advance, then discuss it during the meeting. Every meeting ends with an activity.
When you register, you receive a free copy of the book, while supplies last. Register by calling (503) 625-6688, stopping in at the library, or emailing askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov.
This program is a hybrid meeting. We meet in-person and in a Zoom room. If you attend in-person, meet in the Community Room (off the City Hall lobby). If you join us in the Zoom room, you will get the link for the program a day in advance.
2025
January 9 – Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
February 13 – The Story That Cannot Be Told by J. Kasper Kramer
March 13 – Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee
April 10 – Slugfest by Gordon Korman
May 8 – Ghost Book by Remy Lai
June through August, Fiction Friends will take a break. Fall schedule to be determined.

Library Open House for National Library Week
2025-04-11 00:00
Millions of people across the country visit their libraries each week. What’s the draw? Everything! At Sherwood Public Library, we invite you to visit the library during National Library Week, April 6-12, to explore all we have to offer. This year’s theme is “Drawn to the Library.” Join us for our Open House on Friday, April 11, for cake and refreshments, prizes, and fun activities for all ages!

Technology petting zoo from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Look for “golden tickets” hidden in the library on April 11. Find one and bring it back to get a $20 Target gift card. We are hiding 5 tickets in total.
Games and self-led activities 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Play large versions of classic games, enjoy a coloring table, and play on the Wii U during the technology petting zoo times.
Stop by various stations in the library to share your ideas. Fill up your “idea card”, then choose from a selection of prizes and be entered in a raffle to win one of 6 $10 gift cards to the nearby Symposium Coffee.

All events are free and open to the public.

Read to the Dogs
2025-04-12 11:00 - 12:30
Build reading confidence and improve reading skills by reading to a dog!
Gershwin and Missy and their trainers will listen with compassion and without judgment as you read.
Sign up for a 20 minute session.
You can bring your own book or choose one from the library shelf.
Each time you read to Missy or Gershwin, you will get a free book from the Friends of the Library book sale shelf. After 5 visits, you get to choose a NEW book from our Read to the Dogs book box.
This program is for kids who read by looking at the pictures to tell a story (PreK) and kids who are reading words on the page.
Sign up for a session by calling 503 625-6688 or emailing askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov
Session 1
11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Session 2
11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
(Break 11:40 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.)
Session 3
11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Session 4
12:10 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Digital Navigator Tech Help
2025-04-14 10:00 - 14:00
Digital Navigator Tech Help is held every other Monday from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. in the library. Need help with devices? Have technology-related questions? Want help with job searches? Bring your own device or use library computers.
Reservations can be made for 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Reserve your timeslot through WCCLS Events here.
Drop-in hours are 12:15-2:00 p.m. (and if no one signs up for reserved time).
No Digital Navigator help during holiday closures.
This free program is provided by a visiting Digital Navigator and is in partnership with American Connection Corps & The Washington County Broadband Action Team.
Also see our Tech Help Appointments offered by library staff.
