| Monday - Thursday | 10AM - 9PM |
| Friday - Saturday | 10AM - 5PM |
| Sunday | 1PM - 5PM |
| Phone Number | 630-969-5625 |
Read with a Teen: Book Buddy Program
Mondays, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/9, 7/23,
20 minute slots beginning at 1:00pm
Ages 6-10 (Reading independently)
Book Buddies are paired with elementary-grade readers to help them become better at reading aloud. Young readers will be able sign up for 20 minute time slots with a Book Buddy. To register, call 630-969-5625 or visit: www.westmontlibrary.org.
Tuesdays: 6/5, 7/3, 8/7, 6:30-8:30pm
Grab your yarn and needles and we’ll sit, knit, and compare projects. If you have never knitted before, there is room for you too! We will teach you the basics! No registration is necessary.
You won’t want to miss this opportunity to see wild animals up close on Sunday, June 3 from 2:00-3:30pm! Meet a Canada Lynx, skunk, rabbit, snake, tortoise, kinkajou, Fennec Fox, alligator, and parrot!
To help kick off our summer reading program, we invited Animals for Awareness to give a special presentation that will focus on safety around animals (domestic and wild) and what makes a good pet. You will hear about the fascinating adaptations and qualities of the nine animals that will be at the library!
Learn interesting facts such as why the Canada lynx has huge webbed paws and why alligators can retract their eyes into the top of their heads. Find out where each of the rescued animals came from and why they are so unique!
To register your family for this event, call 630.969.5625 or go online: www.westmontlibrary.org.
This summer, the Westmont Public Library is thrilled to offer a summer reading program for Westmont residents of all ages. You can sign up for the program in the library beginning June 2nd.
The reading program is designed to keep children reading all summer and help avoid loss of reading and comprehension skills. The library offers educational programs and fun incentives for kids during the program.
A participation prize is available for any adult who registers! Additionally, every book adults read earns a raffle ticket for one of six grand prizes! Look for the prize baskets on display beginning June 2.
Take a musical journey through the sounds and rhythms of Latin America with Nelson and Paola Sosa!
Register online or by calling 630-969-5625
March 7, 2012
5:30pm
Conference Room
IRS WebsiteContact the local IRS office:
2001 Butterfield Rd.
Mega Site/Esplanade Building—12th floor
Downers Grove, IL 60515
(west of I-355 Junction on Butterfield Rd.)
630-493-5291
Open Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm
Westmont Senior Center
55 E. Richmond St.
Call 969-8080 to schedule
Counselors are available through April 12th.
By appointment only.
Mondays & Wednesdays 9am-Noon
1-800-TAX-1040
(1-800-829-1040)
1-800-732-8866 (Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm)
Experience a movie on the big screen in our meeting room! Come and watch a new release and we’ll provide the snacks.
Tuesday, April 24, 6:00-8:00pm
Rated PG-13
This movie, starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, tells the story of a man who looks for inspiration by taking midnight walks through Paris, imagining what the city was like during the golden age of the 1920s. Join us for free refreshments and a brief discussion following the film.
Friday, March 30, 2:00-4:00pm
Rated PG
Greg and his mean, older, brother Rodrick are forced to spend time together to help end their feuding.
Sunday, April 15, 2:00-4:00pm
Rated PG
Watch the movie based on our Kids Read book! Hugo Cabret is an orphan living in with his uncle in a Paris train station. Can Hugo keep the clocks running when his uncle disappears?
On July 4th, 1777, fourteen-year-old Jake Mallory and his friends are celebrating their new nation’s independence, but over the next four years Jake finds himself in increasingly adventurous circumstances as he battles British forces, barely survives captivity on a prison ship, and finally returns home to Connecticut, war-torn and weary, but hopeful for America’s future.
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author’s family, includes a historical note.
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
The horrific death of his grandfather sends Jacob to a remote island in Wales to learn the truth behind his grandfather’s strange stories, and even stranger photographs.
A Quechua Indian girl living in a village in Ecuador is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class “mestizo” family. Based on Farinango’s life.
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother’s cheese shop and dreaming about co- worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, her father’s book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
The stuffed animals had a blast playing the library after hours! Check it out on our facebook page!
