Perth Union Library

LEGO Robotics: Sumo-Bot Competition
2025-08-05 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-06 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-07 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-08 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-09 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott Street, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Have you ever wanted to build and code your own robot? Have you ever wanted to see it battle to the end with another bot? Join us to learn to build a Sumobot with LEGO Spike and program it with beginner-friendly coding, and put your creativity to the test! It’s battle time! Flippers and pushers are all allowed!
Ages 8-15. Registration required. Enjoy this free program! (2 sessions max per child)
This program is made possible with funding from Lanark County and The Elizabeth Kelly Foundation.

Storytime with Heidi at the Library
2025-08-05 10:30 - 11:00 | Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott Street, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Join Heidi Tuesday mornings for stories,songs and rhymes.This program is best suited for children ages 0-6 and takes place in Stewart Park. Please bring a blanket to sit on and dress for the the weather.
Registration not required drop in!

Storytime with Heidi at the Maberly Hall
2025-07-08 10:30 - 11:30 | Maberly Community Hall, 180 Elphin-Maberly Rd, Maberly, ON, K0H 2B0, Canada
Join Heidi on select Tuesday mornings for stories, songs and rhymes. This program is best suited for children ages 0-5 and takes place at the Maberly Hall. Please plan to stay and play after the program.
Registration not required drop in!

Great Canoe Adventure Day! CURRENTLY FULL
2025-08-19 09:00 - 15:30 | Stewart Park, 41 Mill Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada
Each Adventure Day will be at or near your local library, giving us a chance to explore your neighbourhood’s ecosystems from the water. The schedule features three “stations”: the canoe tour, building a birdhouse, and a wild survival workshop, along with many team-building games and citizen science activities. During the canoe tour, we will revisit key concepts like wetlands, watersheds, food webs, biodiversity, invasive species, plant and animal identification, the water cycle, and the history of indigenous peoples’ relationship with land and water. We will also collect water samples for testing later. Participants, both children and adults, must sign the waiver as part of registration to go in the canoes. Parents are welcome to join us. While on the water, there’s a target ratio of one adult for every three younger children (aged 5-7). One adult will be present for every five children who are eight years of age or older. Eva Moons, an outdoor education teacher from Ottawa, will lead the Wild Survival session. Recent news stories have highlighted frightening situations of kids alone outside. This workshop aims to empower and educate kids on how to cope and solve problems if they find themselves in such situations. It will cover navigation, map reading, and other fun skills. To ‘build’ on our bird research, we will construct wooden birdhouses for common backyard species. This activity involves basic math, geometry, carpentry, and a touch of artistry. To give the canoe guides time to prepare for their final trip, after our second break, we’ll hold a physics lesson, game, and contest with renowned science teacher Peter Au. We will end the day with water testing of our collected samples, benthic examining (squirmy things we find in the water), and a closing circle.

Reserve a ticket for each participant including parents and please fill out this waiver

Storytime with Heidi in Stewart Park
2025-07-22 10:30 - 11:00 | Stewart Park, 41 Mill Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada

Rideau Eco-Literacy Season Finale
2025-08-26 10:30 - 12:00 | Common Room – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
This is the last planned session of the Rideau Eco-Literacy for now. This last session has three main goals:
Show the edited Bird Puppet Shows to the group.
Examine and understand the results of the water tests taken during the Great Canoe Adventure.
Celebrate all the learning we have done, and give us some feedback to keep the program as fun as it has been so far!
Paul Hamilton, a board member of the Rideau Roundtable and one of Canada’s foremost authorities on global water quality and algae, will be joining us for the water analysis portion. We will also look at the results from the other library’s adventure water sample. By comparing them, we will be able to make some informed guesses and conclusions about the state of the water of the Rideau River
