Money Smart Presentations

Posted by lclemons on 08 April 16

Money Smart Week, April 23-30, 2016

Created by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2002, Money Smart Week® is a public awareness campaign designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. The Library will have a large variety of free consumer help sheets located in the Reference Department on the second floor of the Crown Point location.
The Crown Point Community Library location will also host the following special presentations for FREE!

Personal Finance for Adults
April 19 at 2:00 p.m. in Meeting Room 1

Kelly Griese, Investor Education Coordinator from the Indiana’s Secretary of
State office, will present a Personal Finance seminar for adults including the subjects of debt, credit cards and budgeting.
Light refreshments will be served and a $25 Visa gift card door prize will be awarded to one of the attendees at the conclusion of the presentation.

Preventing Identity Theft
April 26 at 6:00 p.m. in Meeting Room 1

Crown Point’s Fifth Third Bank will present a seminar on preventing Identity Theft. Identity theft is a form of stealing someone’s identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person’s identity, usually as a method to gain access to resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person’s name. Come hear how you can prevent identity theft from impacting your finances.

For more information please contact Julie Wendorf at 219-306-4597.

Mini Golf Tickets On Sale NOW!

Posted by lclemons on 01 April 16

The Crown Point Community Library is celebrating National Library Week, April 10 – 16, by presenting its annual miniature golf event, a “Hole Lot of Fun”. Come celebrate the library and participate in this fun-filled event! Tickets go on sale April 1 at the Crown Point and Winfield Branch Library. Skip the long lines on the day of the event!

This year we have four schools participating in the “hole decorating” contest sponsored by our Friends of the Library: MacArthur Elementary, Lake Street Elementary, Solon Robinson Elementary and Trinity Lutheran. Tell your family and friends to come to the event to play and VOTE for their favorite school. The winning school will receive $300 to purchase books for their school library.

Tickets are $5 per person or $20 for a group of five. Your ticket includes one game of mini golf and entry to the Family Fun Zone where there will be refreshments, face painting, a balloonist, games and more! Ronald McDonald will be visiting at 10:30 a.m.

Don’t worry about parking, the City of Crown Point has donated “Molly the Trolley” to transport  you to and from the library that day. Park at the Wheeler Middle School lot and the trolley will take you around the square and drop you off right in front of the library. The trolley will run every 30 minutes from 10 – 3 p.m.

We are so excited for this event! Hope to see you there!