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Shape the Future of Mental Well-Being in Blaine County!

We need everyone’s help to design the future of mental well-being in Blaine County, one that reflects the input, needs, and desires of our diverse community. Attend one of six Community Engagement Sessions to refine initial recommendations for action. All are welcome – success requires input from everyone in our community. Free childcare and dinner will be provided at sessions denoted + below. • January 18 · YMCA · 6-7:30 pm in English with Spanish interpretation • January 24 · The Community Library · 12-1:30 pm in English only • January 25 · Hailey Town Center West · 6-7:30 pm in English only+ • February 1 · St. Charles Church · 6:30-8 pm in Spanish only + • February 7 · The Community Campus · 1-2:30 pm in English only • February 15 · The Hunger Coalition · 6-7:30 pm in Spanish only+

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Shape the Future of Mental Well-Being in Blaine County!

We need everyone’s help to design the future of mental well-being in Blaine County, one that reflects the input, needs, and desires of our diverse community. Attend one of six Community Engagement Sessions to refine initial recommendations for action. All are welcome – success requires input from everyone in our community. Free childcare and dinner will be provided at sessions denoted + below. • January 18 · YMCA · 6-7:30 pm in English with Spanish interpretation • January 24 · The Community Library · 12-1:30 pm in English only • January 25 · Hailey Town Center West · 6-7:30 pm in English only+ • February 1 · St. Charles Church · 6:30-8 pm in Spanish only + • February 7 · The Community Campus · 1-2:30 pm in English only • February 15 · The Hunger Coalition · 6-7:30 pm in Spanish only+

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Shape the future of mental well-being in Blaine County!

We need everyone’s help to design the future of mental well-being in Blaine County, one that reflects the input, needs, and desires of our diverse community. Attend one of six Community Engagement Sessions to refine initial recommendations for action. All are welcome – success requires input from everyone in our community. Free childcare and dinner will be provided at sessions denoted + below. • January 18 · YMCA · 6-7:30pm in English with Spanish interpretation • January 24 · The Community Library · 12-1:30pm in English only • January 25 · Hailey Town Center West · 6-7:30pm in English only+ • February 1 · St. Charles Church · 6:30-8 in Spanish only + • February 7 · The Community Campus · 1-2:30pm in English only • February 15 · The Hunger Coalition · 6-7:30pm in Spanish only+

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Shape the Future of Mental Well-Being in Blaine County!

We need everyone’s help to design the future of mental well-being in Blaine County, one that reflects the input, needs, and desires of our diverse community. Attend one of six Community Engagement Sessions to refine initial recommendations for action. All are welcome – success requires input from everyone in our community. Free childcare and dinner will be provided at sessions denoted + below. • January 18 · YMCA · 6-7:30 pm in English with Spanish interpretation • January 24 · The Community Library · 12-1:30 pm in English only • January 25 · Hailey Town Center West · 6-7:30 pm in English only+ • February 1 · St. Charles Church · 6:30-8 pm in Spanish only + • February 7 · The Community Campus · 1-2:30 pm in English only • February 15 · The Hunger Coalition · 6-7:30 pm in Spanish only+

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Shape the Future of Mental Well-Being in Blaine County!

We need everyone’s help to design the future of mental well-being in Blaine County, one that reflects the input, needs, and desires of our diverse community. Attend one of six Community Engagement Sessions to refine initial recommendations for action. All are welcome – success requires input from everyone in our community. Free childcare and dinner will be provided at sessions denoted + below. • January 18 · YMCA · 6-7:30 pm in English with Spanish interpretation • January 24 · The Community Library · 12-1:30 pm in English only • January 25 · Hailey Town Center West · 6-7:30 pm in English only+ • February 1 · St. Charles Church · 6:30-8 pm in Spanish only + • February 7 · The Community Campus · 1-2:30 pm in English only • February 15 · The Hunger Coalition · 6-7:30 pm in Spanish only+

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ASSASSINS @ The Spot

Start 2024 off with a bang! Grab tickets to our musical event of the season: ASSASSINS by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. January 25-February 4 @ The Spot. ASSASSINS Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by John Weidman Directed by Yanna Lantz Music Directed by R.L. Rowsey A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim’s signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation’s culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America’s four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written. Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical “revusical” that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream. …

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Classic Flicks at the Library

The Hailey Public Library is launching Classic Flicks, a monthly series of free screenings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. The series will kick off on Thursday, January 11, at 6:00 PM at Town Center West with a 1941 classic film noir staring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade. The movie is filled with murder and intrigue and is based on a 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett.

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“On This Day”: Ways of Thinking About Daily Writing with Francisco Cantú

A workshop with Francisco Cantú, Writer-In-Residence at the Hemingway House this month. Space is limited. Registration required. This craft class examines the act of writing as a daily practice, the same way many of us engage in meditation, exercise, gardening, or playing music. Since writing often feels like a fraught, mercurial act, we will explore various prompts, practices, and ideas for sitting down to write with levity and ease, while also considering how writing on any given date has the power to connect us to what happened on that day throughout history, and to all the other writers who have sat down to write on the very same day. This class will include a packet of date-specific writing by Ross Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Christa Wolf, Nicholson Baker, and others. Francisco Cantú is a writer, translator, and the author of “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border,” winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. A former Fulbright fellow, he has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and an Art for Justice fellowship. His writing and translations have been featured in The …

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Valuing Water to Survive Climate Change

Evan Thomas, Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience, the Global Engineering Residential Academic Program, and the CU Boulder Climate Innovation Collaboratory, joins us to discuss valuing water to survive climate change. Evan Thomas holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is jointly appointed in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Departments, and an affiliate faculty in Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. Evan is also currently a member of the NASA and USAID SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, a member of the board of the Millennium Water Alliance, and Co-Chair of the ASME Engineering for Global Development Research Committee. His technical background is in water and air testing and treatment applied in a range of contexts, from low-resource settings to operational spacecraft. The second lecture in the annual Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Speaker Series, in partnership with the Wood River Land Trust. Join us for more speakers on January 18 and March 14.

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Hygge at the Library

Hygge (“hoo-ga”) is about taking time away from the daily rush to be together with people you care about – or even by yourself – to relax and enjoy life’s quieter pleasures. The Danish concept is many things, including an opportunity to unwind and take things slow. Drop in to The Community Library all week (Tuesday-Saturday) for hot cider, cookies, puzzles, games, coloring, crafts, and of course, reading! Quiet spaces can be found throughout the library, including by our fireplace, and the Lecture Hall will be set up as a place to gather and be cozy together. We’ll also be handing out free hand-knit scarfs. All are welcome!