KIMBALL -- Local families and groups of friends spent Saturday evening at the Kimball Public Library for Family Game Night. 

Librarian Devina Butler organized the event to expand the library's reach to include more adults while sharing her love of board games with the community.

“We also have a lot of board games from those who have kindly donated to us and also ones we have purchased,” Butler said. “We thought this would be a really fun way to make the games more available to the community and teach people how to play them. Buying a big collection of board games can be costly too, so this makes it more accessible to people.” 

Davina said she hopes to organize a game night every quarter, so families can look forward to more opportunities in the future. 

“This was an idea to bring all ages in since our adult-only programs don’t always bring a lot of people in, and we want as many people to come in and have something to do in a small town that doesn’t have a lot to do,” she said. 

Keegan Hinton, who attended game night with his friends, said he really enjoyed the night. 

“I’m really enjoying the community sense of it,” he said. “Looking all around, there’s friendship, there’s families, it’s really enjoyable. Everyone is welcome; it’s just an awesome, heartwarming time to be here.” 

Butler said she is trying different things to get people more comfortable with trying new things, so at Saturday’s game night she set up two games that she is familiar with and would recommend to anybody to try as a way to encourage people to learn something new, and she even joined in and taught a couple how to play. 

“It was a huge success, so that was good," she said. "And we’ve only done this one other time, but the two times we have done it have been very successful, so likely in the future we may do it more regularly depending on availability and staffing.” 

The rest of the games were arranged on the table, which included games like Clue, Sorry, Monopoly, Killer Bunnies, Operation, and many more. People are welcome to bring their own games as well. 

“A lot of work has gone into this collection and a lot of love has gone into donating to us, so we want it to be used as much as possible, and it’s fun; games are fun and you get to laugh and have fun with your family and have snacks," Butler said.