During the June Forest Lodge Library Board of Trustees meeting, the Design Development Committee was formed and voted upon. This committee will be meeting with our architect, Tom Westlund, of Westlund Consultancy, as well as members of Royal Construction Management, as we move forward with the plans for the library expansion building. This committee is…
Progress Report on Building the Library Expansion The FLL Board is targeting 2025 to build the library expansion facility – exactly one hundred years after the log cabin was built. 2024 will be a busy year with site preparation, design finalization and approval, and, of course, more fundraising planned. The Forest Lodge Library Board of…
One of the (many! Thanks to all!) responses we got to the End of Year Library Expansion Appeal was from the Cable Area Chamber of Commerce who pledged $10,000 towards the Library Expansion in honor of retiring library director Kristine Lendved. So grateful. So honored! THANKS!!! From…
Your Library. Your Community. Your Gift Matters. From reading near the cozy fireplace in winter to hearing the cheerful sound of outdoor instruments in summer, the Forest Lodge Library is an important community resource that has brought joy to our community for generations. We’ve outgrown our space so now it’s time to turn the page…
We’ve spoken with hundreds of people. Sent out dozens of marketing folders. Received considerable support in pledges in funds, but, still found ourselves short of our fundraising goal while, in the meantime, out there in the world construction costs only continued to spiral upward. It seemed that something had to change. Late last fall an…
Our community lost one of its beloved elders in recent days. Winnie Gall, 91, passed on December 10th. Her family has requested that memorial donations be directed to The Katie Flowers Endowment (or Forest Lodge Library KFE) in support of the Fred and Winnie Gall Memorial Community Study Room, to be located in the Library’s…
Oh, 2020, you destroyer of timelines, you betrayer of plans! Let us hasten to say that we are mindful that having been put on “pause” is about the least worst thing that might of happened. We stand in sympathy with all of those who lost so much this pandemic year. This year of floods, fires…
THANKS to all who found or took the time to attend one of our Public Input session on Thursday, June 6th. We were very excited to share the current draft of plans and to hear your questions and comments. If you were unable to attend but are interested in hearing about it, we’d love to…
On Thursday, June the 6th, the library offered two Public Input Sessions, one in the Town of Cable, one in the Town of Namakagon. As a joint library of the two communities, it felt that it was important that each community was given an opportunity to review our preliminary plans. Devin Flanigan, our Keller Builds…
We are now two years into our “project” and, while it may look like not much has changed, progress has, in fact, been made. In our last installment we explained that we had interviewed a number of architects and that we had determined that it would be useful to visit properties that they had been…