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EVENTS and NEWS

2025 FHFL Scholarship Recipients

The Fountain Hills Friends of the Library is proud to recognize the Recipients of the 2025 FHFL Falcon Scholarship and the 2025 FHFL Opportunities Scholarship.

The FHFL 2025 Falcon recipient is Katherine Hampton. (The FHFL Falcon Scholarship is funded by Fountain Hills Friends of the Library and administered by the Golden Eagle Education Foundation.)

Katherine’s inspiration for her chosen field of study came at an early age. In fifth grade she and a classmate saw the movie Hidden Figures, the true story of a trio of women mathematicians (one of whom was named Katherine) who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Katherine’s friend bet her $1,000 that she would never work for NASA. Nine years later, Katherine is still determined to win that bet. “I plan on studying First Year Engineering, then Aerospace Engineering, at Purdue University: “The Cradle of Astronauts.” Purdue’s long-standing connection with NASA, their most notable alumni being Neil Armstrong, will give me the opportunities I need to achieve my goals.” And win the bet! Congratulations, Katherine!

The FHFL 2025 Opportunities Scholarship winner is Isabella Leinweber. (The FHFL Opportunities Scholarship is funded and administered by the Fountain Hills Friends of the Library.)

Wasting no time in pursuing her career goals, Isabella is currently a student at Scottsdale Community College. While still in high school, she completed five core courses totaling fifteen credits

towards a new SCC degree - the Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration in Management (BBA).Her goal is to complete this program at SCC and become a purchasing manager. Isabella moved to Fountain Hills just a few years ago. She has attended school online since Middle School. In addition to her studies, Isabella became a Teen Volunteer in our FH Library and served on our Board as a Teen Rep. Working with the librarians, she helped to produce a program called Eager Explorers encompassing new learning activities for younger library patrons. As our Teen Rep, she attended all Board meetings and aided in representing the interests of our High Schoolers. Currently, in addition to her schoolwork, she is a barista at Papaya’s on the Avenue. Kudos to Isabella as she begins another chapter of her academic life!

Congratulations to these young scholars! We are grateful to our members, Book Shop clientele, and volunteers who make funding these scholarships possible

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STORIES IN THE HILLS - “An unexpected guest”

Sponsored by Fountain Hills Friends of the Library

FH Community Center

THURSDAY, OCT 16th, 2-4 p.m.

Come and share in the fun - local authors and members of your community share interesting and amusing short stories of their life experiences.

Or, perhaps you have a story to tell … Let’s hear it!

If you do, please submit your idea to

Carol Kubota - 2ndLifeTravel@gmail.com 

Submission deadline is 6 pm SATURDAY, SEPT 29th, 2025 

A rehearsal will be held Thursday, Oct 9th 2025

2-4 p.m., FH Community Center

This is another FHFL FREE EVENT!

Friends of the Library and the Community Center present

THE OK CHORALE

Saturday Nov 1st - 3-5pm

UPDATE The OK CHORALE will perform on Saturday Nov 1st 3-5pm in all four ballrooms. The community center will be co-sponsoring this event with Fountain Hills Friends of the Library

Y'all come !!

This is another FHFL FREE EVENT

FOUNTAIN HILLS FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ANNUAL SHREDDING EVENT 2025

Shred-A-Thon 2025

On Saturday, April 19th, a good many townsfolk, having just posted their tax returns, carted a “weighty” number of boxes and bags filled with shredable documents to the FH High School parking lot. An energetic group of volunteers then collected and transferred the contents of all the containers directly into the onsite shredding truck.

The “volunteers” were members of the Friends of the

Library Board with welcome help from

Nolan Taylor and Rose Sanchez, members of the FHHS Key Club.

They were recruited by Katie Hampton, one of our

Teen Library Volunteers and President of the Key Club.

(Their youth and enthusiasm were greatly appreciated!)

Kudos, too, to Justin Welty and Marc Brewer of the Town of FH Public Works Department - they set in place all the necessary orange cones to direct the traffic through the FHHS parking lot to the shredding truck and also thoughtfully provided an elegant Port-A-Potty and Wash Stand!

The many townspeople who came through were generous and we gratefully accepted their donations. The funds will be passed onto the Library in order to provide the Library and the Community with Summer and Winter Reading Programs for Children, Teens and Adults, Library Furnishings and Technology, Front Porch Performances and Storyteller Events, Scholarships and our amazing Resale Book Shop.

Fountain Hills Friends of the Library is happy to offer this free service to residents, and grateful to our members and Board of Directors for their support. We are always welcoming new members to the FHFL and encourage you to visit www.fhfl.org to join.

Resale Book Shop

Friends of the Library Resale Book Shop is open!

Check out some great reads.

All funds directly support library programs!

Come into the Bookstore and see the special sales that will be going on throughout the year.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

FHFL benefits our library and community in the following ways::

Opportunities Scholarship
Falcon Scholarship
Resale Book Shop
Construction of a “Quiet Room” for reading and studying
Large screen smart TV for presentations, programs and workshops
New furniture with power strips for children and teen area.
Teen section laptop tables and chairs; teen section partition panels
Children’s “Reading Rug” for Storytime
Front Porch Performances such as “Café Flutes”,“SoSco Flute & Guitar Duo” and "Meadowlark
Author series events
Storytelling events
Annual document shredding events
Summer reading programs and book clubs for children and adults
Grand Canyon Reader Award books for our middle and elementary schools
Children's programs and activities
Teen council events and teen programs such as “Teen Manga Club”
Adult programs such as “Beauty & Heart With Jo”
Free seed packets can be found in our seed catalogue box