Midwest Banjo Camp Speaker

Bring your brown bag lunch to the Library Lecture Room on Friday, June 6th, for Lunch Learn & Laugh. Bart Reiter will talk about how he became a banjo maker. Bart is volunteering his time in support of the Midwest Banjo Camp, June 6-8, 2008 (http://www.midwestbanjocamp.com/). We will meet noon-1:00pm and all are welcome.

HAPPY HOBBY

Join us in the Library Lecture Room (main floor) at 4:00pm on Tuesday, June 3rd, for HAPPY HOBBY. It's a fun crafty time making our own personal journal/book---bring your ideas and any pictures/quotations that you want to include in your book. We'll decorate a small plain board book--supplies and instructions supplied free of charge! Everyone is welcome! Contact Jane at 269.749.7387 for more information. See you there!

Summertime Programs for Youth

Join us all summer long for fun times in the Library! Kids, tweens and teens are welcome to come in for crafts, games, story times, and movies. Please note: Children under nine years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Questions? Call Jane Reiter @ 269.749.7387.

STORY TIME, June 3-August 12, 2008
10:30am in the Children's Room (ground floor)

CRAFTS, Library Lecture Room (main floor)
June 5 1:30-3:00pm Youth Knitting Come learn to knit and work
on your knitting skills

June 11 10:00am-noon Bead Creative! Make Beads & Create jewelry or key chains
with beads and other stuff

June 19 1:30-3:00pm Youth Knitting Come learn to knit and work
on your knitting skills

June 25 10:00am-noon Patriotic Crafts Express yourself with red,
white and blue!

July 10 1:30-3:00pm Youth Knitting Come learn to knit and work
on your knitting skills

July 16 10:00am-noon Very Basic Scrapbooking We will create a simple
scrap-book---bring pictures that you wish
to include in your small book

July 24 1:30-3:00pm Youth Knitting Come learn to knit and work
on your knitting skills

July 30 10:00am-noon Flower Power Summer is blooming with
all sorts of handmade flowers!

August 7 1:30-3:00pm Youth Knitting Come learn to knit and work
on your knitting skills

August 13 10:00am-noon School Crafts We will decorate a folder and
a file box in preparation for fall— and make locker mirrors

August 21 1:30-3:00pm Youth Knitting Come learn to knit and work
on your knitting skills. Can you
complete your summer project?

BOARD GAMES Lecture Room (main floor)
June 4 10am-3pm
June 18 10am-3pm
July 2 10am-3pm
July 9 10am-3pm
July 23 10am-3pm
August 6 10am-3pm
August 20 10am-3pm

MOVIES Kula Samba Theater (ground floor)

June 13 1pm Bee Movie (PG)

June 27 1pm Enchanted (PG)

July 11 1pm High School Musical I

July 18 1pm High School Musical II

August 1 1pm Hairspray (2007)

August 15 1pm Mean Girls

Book Group on May 28th

The Book Group will meet in the Betsy Dole Women's Resource Center on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, to discuss "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). Join us at 3PM in the Upton Conservatory building to talk about this vivid and gritty young adult novel. Everyone is welcome and refreshments are served. Questions? Contact Dianne Thomas, Interim Director of the Center, at 269.749.6626.

Lunch Learn & Laugh

Join us on Thursday, May 15th at noon for a fun filled brown bag lunch! Meet in the Library Lecture Room, noon-1:00pm, and Pat DeLeeuw will show us how to knit cables without cable needles. Contact Jane Reiter to pre-register @ 269.749.7387. We'll enjoy Pat's gentle instructions and have lunch at the same time! See you there!

Mother's Day Crafts on Saturday the 10th!

Join us in the ground floor of the Library for craft time, 10AM-noon. We'll create unique and delightful handmade magnets and cards for Mom (or the special woman in your life)--check it out! Questions? Call Jane at 269.749.7387--Everyone is welcome and there is no charge for craft time.