Spring Family Place Begins

Monday nights and Tuesday mornings from April 23 to May 22 famlies will be attending our Parent/Child workshops. The will meet with child development experts and discuss their concerns about nutrition, health and other parenting issues. Parents can talk to other parents with children of the same age. The library provides age appropriate games, toys and books for this program.

So if you are in the reference area during these times you may hear the children enjoying themselves while their parents are learning about community services available to them and getting answers to common parenting questions.

Thank you to the Friends of the Lucy Robbins Welles Library for co-sponsoring this event.

-vc

Brattleboro Bus Trip Canceled

The bus trip to Brattleboro, VT on Saturday, April 28 has been canceled. If you are signed up and have paid please contact the library for a refund. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

-vicky

Brown Bag It with Art

Next Tuesday, April 24 at Noon the library will have a speaker from the Wadsworth Atheneum. Anne Butler Rice, Associate Museum Education, Will speak about their new exhibition, Faith and Fortune: Five Centuries of European Masterworks.

This program has been very popular in the past so come early with your bag lunch. We will provide beverages and desserts.

If Ms. Rice's talk encourages you to visit the museum stop at our reference desk and we will reserve a free pass for you. You can also reserve one yourself on our web page.

If you like to read more about the Wadsworth or Faith and Art -I have created a book list for this program.

-vicky

An Evening with Kate Klise

Children's author Kate Klise will be speaking and signing books in the library's Community Room on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m. Books available for sale are Regarding the Fountain, Deliver Us from Normal and Trial by Journal (paperbacks for $5.00) and her newest title, Far from Normal (hardcover for $12.00). All are invited - school-aged children, parents, teachers, librarians and aspiring writers. Come early for refreshments! Call 665-8720 with any questions.
Helen

New Location for Book Sale

Due to unforseen circumstances the Friends May Book Sale has been moved to the Senior and Disabled Center on Cedar Street diagonally across from the library.

Ladd, Thanks so much for your polite suggestion. I will ad a link to this post.

For more information about the booksale.

http://www.newington.lib.ct.us/9_friend.html


-vicky

Downsizing - Monday, April 16 at 7:00 p.m.

Are you moving to a small house? Are you parents moving to a smaller house? Come to our downsizing program. Join Karen J. Martin, R.N., M.S.N., author of Gaining Control over Home Downsizing and owner of Life Moves, LLC of Farmington, a home moving services company. Ms. Martin has combined her talents in nursing and her expertise in antiques, to guide families through the transition of leaving the family home. If you or family members are thinking of changing your present lifestyle and moving to a smaller home, this is the program for you. Learn practical tips and tricks that will save you time and money. Gain insight that will enable you to better control your own life moves. Books will be available for sale after the program. No registration is necessary.

-vicky

No more book donations, please.

The basement is overflowing, the sorters are working full speed and it's only three weeks until the books sale. So in order to work more on preparing for the actual book sale, we are not going to accept donations after April 14. We will begin to accept donations again starting May 8.

-vicky

Evening Book Discussion

This month’s reading is The Ox-bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

All interested persons are invited to attend on Thursday April 5 at 7:00 p.m.

Sue S.