That’s what friends are for!

Have you ever wondered how you can support your local library? The Friends of the Black Creek Library are here to do just that! We volunteer to help the library with things like the Easter Egg Hunt. When there are elections, we make baked goods to raise money for the library. Every October, we run our annual book and bake sale. The most recent one was a great hit and we thank everyone who stopped in and supported the library. We also fundraise through selling tickets to the raffle baskets that we put together and display in the library. Our current raffle is for a Green Bay Packers 2025 team autographed football. Tickets are $5 each or $20 for five tickets. The winner will be drawn on December 4th. It would make for a great present for a Packers fan in your life. This year, we are bringing back our Gifting to the Library Tree as well. The Gifting Tree will be on display in the library starting in Mid-November. Each ornament on the tree will have the name of an item that the library needs. You choose an ornament off of the tree, purchase the item, and return it to the library where it will be placed under the tree. 
What else does being a Friends member involve? The library often needs volunteers to help with their programs. In 2026, we hid eggs and guided children along the Easter Bunny trail, spun cotton candy for the End of Summer Reading Party, and dressed up in our Halloween best for the Candy Land trail. There are also projects that the library asks for help with. In 2025, Friends volunteers helped shift the entire library layout and in 2026, we helped organize the basement, allowing for a new craft station. 
Here are some things you may not know the Friends have provided to the library: the playhouse, where kids love to play, the disk repair machine allowing the library to fix disks, installing the wifi, maintaining the outside book drops and even, funding for summer reading. 
If any of this sounds like something you would like to do, please consider joining the Friends of the Library. Our meetings are on the third Thursday of the month. The next one will be on November 19th at 6:30 p.m. in the Black Creek Community Center. If you have any questions, please come to a meeting. We would love to meet you and discuss our group!