Celebrate Play in the Sand Day on August 11th . Sand castles, beach and fun times are linked together aren't they ? Take time to go to the beach, take a walk, and build some sand castles with family and friends.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Movie in the Park
Tommorrow night Saturday, August 9th, will be the final movie in the park series. Make a date with your family to attend this great event in Veteran Park at dark. The movie will be Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Butterflies and Seniors
This was our August monthly intergenerational story time that is held the first Thursday of every month.Today Lisa, children and seniors read about caterpillars and butterflies. All enjoyed the stories but the children were really excited about creating butterflies. They colored on coffee filters and then sprayed them with water and created tie-dyed butterflies that were completed with snap clothes pins and pipe cleaners. Both the children and the seniors enjoyed the finished product.
All listen to the stories.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Wiggle Your Toes Day
August 6th is Wiggle Your Toes Day.This day encourages you to give your little piggy toes some exercise. Those ten extremities at the ends of your feet, are crying out for a little freedom. Cramped up inside a pair of shoes or sneakers all day long, your stinky toes just don't get the chance to move about freely, as they would like to do.
Celebrate Wiggle Your Toes Day by airing out your toes, and wiggling them around for all to see. The best place to wiggle your toes on a hot August day, is in the pool. Or, sit on a dock and stick your wiggly little toes in the water.
Did you Know? Not all toes are alike. Like people, toes come in all shapes and sizes. There is a small percentage of the population who have two or more toes partially joined together....web like toes!
I love these two quotes about toes, it reminds all of us to stop and smell the roses along the way.
"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet." ~ Jeremy Bentham
I especially like this one...
"Dancing is the poetry of the foot." ~ John Dryden
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
WORDLE
I checked my favorite site to see what Tasha Saeckeron http://sites.menashalibrary.org/
had found of interest to tell others about.
She used for her library mission statement http://wordle.net/ with excellent results so I tried our library's mission statement with wonderful results. I did learn that the more you use certain words the more prominent they become in the cloud. There is a randomizer at the bottom of the sample they give so you just keep going until you find one that you like. Have fun with this great website!
had found of interest to tell others about.
She used for her library mission statement http://wordle.net/ with excellent results so I tried our library's mission statement with wonderful results. I did learn that the more you use certain words the more prominent they become in the cloud. There is a randomizer at the bottom of the sample they give so you just keep going until you find one that you like. Have fun with this great website!
Monday, August 4, 2008
August New Books
The library will be receiving these books throughout the month of August.
Damage Control by Judith Jance
A woman shoots a home intruder, an elderly couple drive their car off a cliff and a mysterious fire kills an older man and leaves three homeless. Were these accidents or something more sinister? When Det. Jaime Carbajal's nephew discovers a body in the desert, the investigation leads to a shady organization that operates halfway houses for troubled and disabled persons. Meanwhile, Joanna must deal with her interfering mother, who exhibits a sudden personality change, and the discovery of family secrets about her late father and late first husband.
Sm
oke Screen by Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown returns with a sizzling tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal - where friends become foes, and criminals become heroes in the ultimate abuse of power.
Rough Justice by Jack Higgins
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque—or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead.
This book reveals the cutthroat world of competitive hound shows as both humans and animals alike try to solve a series of bizarre deaths.
Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA, just completing an elective in general surgery, whose world is shattered during a break in an otherwise ordinary day. While relaxing in the surgical lounge of L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she half-listens to a piece on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery. But when she hears her beloved grandmother’s name mentioned, her own heart nearly stops: the CNN reporter says Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi’s Queen Victoria Hospital.
U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The results are tragic. To make amends Venturi leaves the Marshals Service and assembles a team of close confidants to secretly create new identities for innocent men and women whose lives have been ruined through no fault of their own -- people who really deserve fresh starts in new lives. But before they are relocated and reborn, each must change a lifetime of habits and actually become someone else, with new traits, tastes, and personalities. And before being declared "legally dead" -- they have to die. The result is a combination of Extreme Makeover, Mission Impossible, and CSI -- the last in reverse. In these "deaths," some of them spectacular, phony forensics must be created to fit the "facts" and fool the experts. His fascinating experiment works -- for a time. But as Venturi continues to relocate the deserving, evil begins to stalk Venturi and his legally dead clients.
Damage Control by Judith Jance
A woman shoots a home intruder, an elderly couple drive their car off a cliff and a mysterious fire kills an older man and leaves three homeless. Were these accidents or something more sinister? When Det. Jaime Carbajal's nephew discovers a body in the desert, the investigation leads to a shady organization that operates halfway houses for troubled and disabled persons. Meanwhile, Joanna must deal with her interfering mother, who exhibits a sudden personality change, and the discovery of family secrets about her late father and late first husband.
Sm
oke Screen by Sandra BrownSandra Brown returns with a sizzling tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal - where friends become foes, and criminals become heroes in the ultimate abuse of power.
The Mercedes Coffin by Faye 
Kellerman
Kellerman A relentlessly gripping tale spun by a master, Faye Kellerman's The Mercedes Coffin races through a dangerous urban world of fleeting fame and false dreams, making heart-pumping hairpin turns at each step of a terrifying journey, where truth and justice are fine lines between life and death.
Rough Justice by Jack Higgins
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque—or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead.Being Elizabeth by Barbara Taylor Bradford
At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It’s a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family’s history, and she knows the price that many had to pay to see it reach the success it is today. And Elizabeth is the youngest executive in the company she now leads. Surrounded by rumors and disloyalty, she knows that there are many people who would give anything to take down the company—and her with it.
At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It’s a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family’s history, and she knows the price that many had to pay to see it reach the success it is today. And Elizabeth is the youngest executive in the company she now leads. Surrounded by rumors and disloyalty, she knows that there are many people who would give anything to take down the company—and her with it.Hounded To Death by Rita Mae Brown
This book reveals the cutthroat world of competitive hound shows as both humans and animals alike try to solve a series of bizarre deaths.Foreign Body by Robin Cook
Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA, just completing an elective in general surgery, whose world is shattered during a break in an otherwise ordinary day. While relaxing in the surgical lounge of L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she half-listens to a piece on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery. But when she hears her beloved grandmother’s name mentioned, her own heart nearly stops: the CNN reporter says Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi’s Queen Victoria Hospital.Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
Dr. Temperance Brennan's quest to identify two corpses pits her against citizen vigilantes intent on a witch-hunt. While working in Charlotte, N.C., Brennan investigates remains unearthed during a housing renovation and discovers disturbing clues possibly pointing to voodoo or Santeria. She must determine if the bones, including the skull of a teenage girl, are linked to an unidentified headless torso found in a nearby lake. Intent on using the deaths as the cornerstone of his crusade against immorality, fundamentalist preacher turned politician Boyce Lingo claims that the bodies bear the mark of devil worshippers.
The
Face of Fear by John Saul
Face of Fear by John Saul Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Conrad Dunn has put his talents to work making his wife, Margot, the embodiment of physical perfection, but after her face is scarred in a boating accident, Margot takes her own life. Remarrying within a year, Dunn persuades his new teenage stepdaughter, Alison Shaw, who's struggling to adjust to life in the Dunn mansion and to a private school with a ridiculously affluent student body, to undergo breast-enhancement surgery. Meanwhile, the police are searching frantically for the Frankenstein Killer, a serial slayer who removes his female victims' glands as well as more obvious body parts.
Lie Down With The Devil by Linda Barnes
Carlyle is still engaged to her mob-associated fiancé, Sam Gianelli, though she's waiting for Sam to explain why he's disappeared in the wake of rumors linking him to a dead girl. Then a woman calling herself Jessica Franklin visits Carlyle armed with a photograph of Sam and a doubt about his fidelity. After Franklin becomes the victim of a hit-and-run, Carlyle is the most likely suspect. When the police discover that Jessica Franklin is an alias, Carlyle, in more trouble than ever, turns to her old friend and former boss at the Boston PD, Joseph Mooney. Together, they delve into a small community on Cape Cod, where a local Native American tribe is lobbying for land—perhaps to use for a casino.
Legally Dead by Edna Buchanan
U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The results are tragic. To make amends Venturi leaves the Marshals Service and assembles a team of close confidants to secretly create new identities for innocent men and women whose lives have been ruined through no fault of their own -- people who really deserve fresh starts in new lives. But before they are relocated and reborn, each must change a lifetime of habits and actually become someone else, with new traits, tastes, and personalities. And before being declared "legally dead" -- they have to die. The result is a combination of Extreme Makeover, Mission Impossible, and CSI -- the last in reverse. In these "deaths," some of them spectacular, phony forensics must be created to fit the "facts" and fool the experts. His fascinating experiment works -- for a time. But as Venturi continues to relocate the deserving, evil begins to stalk Venturi and his legally dead clients.Friday, August 1, 2008
Movie Book Club
Eight children attended the first monthly book-movie club program. Children's Librarian Ingvild and thechildren discussed the book Holes and then watched the movie while eating pizzas provided by the Friends.
The children were excited about having this program become a monthly event and decided to read Nim's Island
during August. Then on August 18th from 4:30-6:30 pm they will discuss the book and watch the movie. This program is for ages 9-12 or in grades 4-6 and all children can sign up to read the book and attend the movie.
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