Crawfordsville Kiwanis Meets With Local Institutions

The Crawfordsville Kiwanians heard from a couple of local institutions recently. At their last meeting in March, Kathie Watkins and Amy King from the Linden Carnegie Library gave a presentation. And then Misha Anderson from the Montgomery County Animal Welfare League spoke at the first meeting in April.

Anderson has been with the Montgomery County Animal Welfare League for 9 years starting out as an Animal Control Officer and she currently serves as the Director of the AWL. Anderson shared her expertise and experience working in animal welfare and advocating for the protection and well-being of animals in the community.

The Montgomery County Animal Welfare League is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the humane treatment of animals through education, advocacy, and services. Anderson has played a pivotal role in the League’s success in providing animal control services, animal adoption programs, and community education on animal care and welfare.

During her presentation, Anderson discussed the mission and initiatives of the Montgomery County Indiana Animal Welfare League, as well as share information on animal welfare issues in the community and how people can get involved in supporting the organization’s work.

Anderson spoke about some of the more interesting animals that they have had at the shelter including, over the last 12 months, four alligators!  The shelter is a no-kill shelter and has as many as 200 cats and 60 dogs at any one time. Although their goal is to lower the length of stay for the animals through adoption or other placement the current length of stay is about one and one-half years for the average animal.

For more information about the Montgomery County Animal Welfare League please visit their website at https://mcawl.com/

Kiwanians hear about the Linden Carnegie Library

The Linden Carnegie Library Director, Kathie Watkins and Children’s Director, Amy King spoke to the Crawfordsville Kiwanis Club on Thursday March 30th, 2023.

The Linden Carnegie Library was a small, unassuming building on the corner of Main and Elm Streets in Linden, Indiana when it opened in 1922, funded by a $7,995.00 grant from Andrew Carnegie, and it has been a fixture in the town ever since. When the library opened it had a total of 197 books and library articles on the shelves.

Today the library holds over 29,600 books with the ability, through its Evergreen Library partnership, to connect with over 120 other libraries throughout Indiana to get specific books or information that a reader may want.

The library became a popular spot for children and adults alike. Today the library offers arts & crafts days for children with special pumpkin painting in the fall and this past year held a “Stuffed Animal Sleepover” where children could leave their stuffed animals at the library overnight and when they came back the next day the children could see pictures of all of the things the stuffed animals did during the night.  What a story they told.

The library also offers a summer reading program which, last year, brought in over 100 kiddos to the library to participate in crafts and reading. The Crawfordsville Kiwanis Club has become a sponsor for this program over the last few years.

It has a wide variety of books, magazines, and newspapers, as well as a small collection of computers and internet access. The library also offers a variety of programs and events, including story time for children, book clubs for adults, and computer classes for seniors.

The Linden Carnegie Library is a place where people could come to learn, to grow, and to connect with others. It is a place where people can find a sense of belonging. It is a place where people can make memories that will last a lifetime.  If you would like to see more about the Linden Carnegie Library you can check them out on their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LindenCarnegiePublicLibrary or you can visit them at 102 S Main St, Linden, IN.

To find out more about the Crawfordsville Kiwanis Club visit https://k00404.site.kiwanis.org/ or come on out and visit us any Thursday at 11:30 am at the Crawfordsville District Public Library in the Donnelly room on the lower level.

Pictured are Speaker Coordinator Gary Behling, Library Director Kathie Watkins and Children’s Director Amy King.

Pictured are Speaker Coordinator Johnn Trotter, Kiwanis President Jacob Moore, and MOCO AWL Director Misha Anderson.