Events
Franklin County Watermelon Festival
Live music, contests and entertainment, as well as a pageant, arts & crafts, 5k run, antique car & truck show, festival foods, tractor show, kids area, and a slice of FREE watermelon!
Manna Ministries Food Distribution
Manna Ministries feeds more than 1000 families each month in the Chilton, Jefferson and Shelby counties! They distribute loaves of bread, along with pantry items, produce, meats, dairy & pastries.
Family Story Time: Opelika PL
Friday & Saturday mornings @ the Library for stories, rhymes, songs, and other fun activities designed to develop literacy and social skills.
Fultondale Founders Day
Fultondale Founders Day offers a variety of food vendors, specialty vendors, live entertainment, arts/crafts, a free kids zone, and car show.
Saturday Sillies
Spend your Saturday mornings each month with the Library, enjoying some favorite books, songs, & crafts!
Library Fest Family Fun Day
Celebrate the end of summer with games, prizes, line dancing, food trucks, a mini book sale, library resources, and fun at MCCPL Fest Family Fun Day.
ArtPlay Vocabby’s World
The adventures of Vocabby take pre-K children on travels around the world as they learn vocabulary words through science and arts concepts.
Parent to Parent
Sessions are designed to develop strong, healthy families; promote positive parenting; teach basic child development.
Storyline Online: Read by Celebrated Actors
Celebrated actors read children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.The SAG-AFTRA Foundation literacy website streams free videos of readers including Seth Myers, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Viola Davis, Kevin Costner, & dozens more.
CDRS Parent Resource Library
A FREE service of Child Development Resources at the University of Alabama, the Parent Resource Library (PRL) has books, activities, and a wide variety of resources designed to support families in parenting their young children.