Meet Rachel Moorhouse

Meet Rachel Moorhouse. Rachel is 49 and married to Mike. They have five children, ranging in age from 16 to 26. She was born in Boise, and attended public schools, graduating from Borah High. She received an Associate Degree in K-12 Physical Education in 1995, and a Bachelor of Science and Education Degree in 1998. Her Idaho Instructional Certificate is current. She is a substitute teacher in the West Ada School District.

Rachel has been involved in community service her entire adult life. She was a volunteer art program teacher at Lake Hazel Elementary for eight years. She was representative on the Mountain View High School women’s lacrosse board for two years. She was a volunteer music teacher for a children’s group for six years. She was on the planning committee for Senior Night at Mountain View High School for four years. She has been a volunteer monthly classroom helper at Lake Hazel Elementary for sixteen years. She has been a member of the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. She volunteers at the Idaho Food Bank and the Ronald McDonald House. She has been a volunteer leader for several youth camps in the area.

Her first memory of the Lake Hazel Library was when she and her teen friends used to bowl there when it was the Lake Hazel Lanes. After the bowling alley closed, and it became the Lake Hazel Branch of the Ada Community Library, she and her family used it quite often. Until then, she and her children would use the Victory Branch for story time, craft time, music and movement, checking out books, and participating in summer reading programs.

One of Rachels favorite memories as an adult was when her family visited Wahington D.C. and toured the Library of Congress. It was fascinating and something she will never forget. It provided a vivid reminder of all the days spent in public, school, and college libraries, researching, learning, and writing.

She has valued public libraries her entire life. She has a strong desire to help provide and maintain a service that elevates and lifts people in their understanding of the world around them. She loves interacting with people, young and old, and values relationships of trust. She believes that her experience as a mother of five children as well as her education and time in the public schools as a teacher gives her experiential knowledge invaluable for a trustee. She works well with others in problem solving and believes in counseling together to find solutions to challenges and problems. She is fully committed to continuing the mission of the Ada Community Library to be the very best library it can be for its thousands of patrons.