Magic the Gathering

Registration is still open for the Magic program on
Thursday, June 28 @ 2:00 p.m.

Call the library 860-665-8700 or
stop by the information desk to sign up.

Teens in grades 7 - 12 are welcome to come play Magic. All levels of of players from experienced to new are welcome. The program is free and refreshments will be provided.

-vicky

Bus Trip to Block Island

Join the Friends of the Lucy Robbins Welles Library on a bus trip to Block Island.

The bus will leave the back parking lot of Newington Town Hall at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday, July 28. It will take approximately 2 hours to get to Pt. Judith where passengers will board the ferry for the one hour ride to Block Island. Once on Block Island, passengers will be free to explore the Island on their own. An optional tour of the Island by minivan will be available for approximately $10. Passengers should take the 5:00 p.m. ferry back to Pt. Judith. The bus will leave Pt. Judith at 6:00 p.m. for the two hour return trip to the Town Hall parking lot.

The cost is $43 per person. Register at the Adult Information Desk.

Fossil Hunter

Wednesday, June 27 at 7:00 p.m. Walter Heinz, the fossil hunter, will be at the library. He will bring

• Megaladon shark tooth
• woolly mammoth molar and
• amber with an insect embedded

Free tickets are available NOW.

For children in grade 1 and up.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Lucy Robbins Library.

-vicky

Summer Reading Programs for the Whole Family

Everyone is invited to join one of the three summer reading programs the library is offering this summer. They are all free.

• Adult readers will earn a raffle ticket for each book they read, which will be entered in weekly drawings for special gift baskets. Sign up at the Adult Information Desk.


• Teens will earn book bucks throughout the summer to use at the teen finale auction in August. Sign up at the Adult Information Desk.


• Children up through grade 8 can earn prizes by reading or being read to for at least twenty minutes a day. Sign up in the Children's Department.

** All the summer reading events, giveaway books and raffle prizes are provided by a generous donation from the Friends of the Library.

Wizard Rock for ages 9 to 90

If you like rock music, 80’s music or Harry Potter books then consider joining us for the Wizard Rock Concert. Draco and the Malfoys, an energetic two man band will perform wicked wizard rock, as inspired by their namesakes.

The concert will be on July 13th at 6:30 p.m. in the Senior Center Auditorium.

Free tickets are available at the Adult Information Desk.

Learn What Makes a Good Business Brochure

Join Cheryl Dauphin and Nancy Simonds on Monday, June 18 at 7:00 p.m., as they talk about what makes an effective business brochure. Bring your brochure to share and get feedback on the content and design. This program is geared to the small business owner and home-based business.

To Anonymous: Thank you for your diligence in searching out errors on our website, to the extent that you look at other websites to find them. However this time the http://self-marketer.com/about.html website appears to have a typo. The business brochure program will be on June 18 at 7:00 p.m. as previously stated in this post.

Vicky Chase, Librarian at Lucy Robbins Welles Library.

Bus Trip to New York City

Join the Friends of Lucy Robbins Welles Library for a special trip to New York City and spend the day as you wish.

The bus will leave from the back parking lot of Newington Town Hall at 7:30 a.m. this Saturday, June 16. It will arrive in New York City at approximately 9:30 a.m. The bus will drop passengers off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller Center and Times Square. Passengers will have plenty of time to enjoy the city before boarding the bus at 6:00 p.m. behind St. Patrick's Cathedral for the trip back to Newington.

The cost of the trip is $27. Register at the Adult Information Desk.

Sue S.

Lucy's Librarians Learn Library2.0

About on month ago the librarians and staff at the library started learning about Library2.0. Two of us have created a learning blog. We post lessons once a week. The rest of the staff do the lessons at their own pace. We are available for one on one instruction or other help along the way. As I have been researching for my entries and reading Sue's entries in the learning blog I too am learning. I wanted to share this youtube video with you. It's a video explaining RSS. I found it entertaining and informative. Hope you enjoy it and learn something.

-vicky

Get a Clue @ Your Library

This Saturday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, the library will officially kick off the summer reading program, Get a Clue @ Your Library, with an all ages outdoor fair in the Town Hall parking lot. Besides registration for the 3 different reading programs, adult, teen and children, activities will include the popular Touch-a-Truck event co-sponsored by Parks and Rec and the Newington/Wethersfield Women's Club, with 11 different vehicles lining Mill Street (which will be closed to the public until noon). Also there will be face painting, tattoos, fingerprint pictures, a mystery word game, free balloons, chess, checkers and Radio Disney!

Parking will be available in the Garfield St. lot, along Garfield St. and at the Senior and Disabled Center.

Bring the whole family and start reading!

Here's a photo from a previous kick-off to whet your appetite! Hope to see you there!

Helen

Chess Club 6/6/2007 @ 3:30 p.m.

Join the Newington High School Chess Club members Wednesday for their last meeting of the youth chess club for the school year. Bring your own boards and meet other's interested in chess.

The club is open to all levels of players in grades 3-8.
No registration required.

-vicky

Organize your kitchen

Monday June 4, 7:00 p.m. Library Community Room

Is your kitchen cluttered; are your closets crowded?
Stop by the library Monday evening and
JoAnne Grabinski will tell you how to get organized.

New Parenting Books

There have been some excellently reviewed parenting books published this spring so I thought I'd share some with you.

By far, the most requests I get as a parenting topic, both in the library and as a member of the town's Early Childhood Council, is discipline. Here are three of the newest titles in our collection on this subject:

The author of The No-Cry Discipline Solution is Elizabeth Pantley, bestselling author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution. Her discipline book promotes gentle ways to encourage good behavior without whining, tantrums and tears.

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers and Positive Discipline for the First Three Years by Jane Nelsen are completely revised and expanded editions of her earlier discipline titles. As a matter of fact, there is a whole Positive Discipline series with titles for stepfamilies, caregivers, single parents and teenagers.

The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family but can also present its own unique challenges. The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis, Ph.D. addresses these issues with care and consideration. This book is for parents who have welcomed children from other countries and cultures, from troubled backgrounds or with special behavioral or emotional needs.

In a somewhat controversial title, Donna Bee-Gates, author of I Want It Now, compares today's culture of materialism and self-gratification with a simpler childhood that values good communication and interaction with peers and family.

These last two titles present specialized information not often written about for the mass market.

The Connected Father by Carl Pickhardt helps fathers become informed about changes and challenges that normally unfold during adolescence. He helps them navigate through the 4 stages of adolescence from ages 9 to 23 and deals with subjects such as communication, independence and authority.

While there have been several books on the parenting of infant through preschool twins and multiples, not much has been available on issues that develop during the school age. Parenting School-Age Twins and Multiples by Christina Baglivi Tinglof fills that gap. Her book answers questions such as: should your twins be placed in the same homeroom at school or how healthy is competition among your triplets? Drawing from the latest cutting-edge research, she guides you through the children's first days of kindergarten to the always drama-filled years of high school.

All of the above titles are brand new and are currently being processed. Call the Children's Department at 665-8720 to place a hold on any of them.
These and other books addressing child rearing can be found on the Parent Shelf in the Children's Department. Any Children's staff will be happy to show you the location.

Helen Aveline

Head of Children's Services

Parent Child Workshop photos

Here are some photos of children at our Parent Child Workshop. The Parent Child Workshop offers parents a chance to learn about services and meet local family specialists. Children can play with educational toys.


Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.

-vicky

Philip R. Craig

The library staff was saddened to hear of the death of Philip R. Craig. He had been scheduled to speak at the library on June 12. His passing is a great loss to his many fans here at the library and around the world.

-vicky

Race Results are In

The results of the Newington Library 5k Challenge are in.

-vc

Teddy Bear Clinic Photos

Thank you Michelle for the photos!

Newington 5K Challenge 5/20/2007

Don't forget the Newington 5K Road Race starts at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday May 20 at Mill Pond Park. If you haven't yet signed up you can come into the library to get an application or go online to active.com to register.

The first 200 people to arrive at the race will get a free t-shirt and goody bag.

List of Books Given to the Library

All during the the year library patrons donate money to the library to purchase books in memory or in honor of a loved one. Jeanette Mercure, Head of Circulation and Collection Management created a list of recently purchased books with funds from our gift account. Gifts to the Library will now be on our new additions page along with the other new book newsletters.

Go take a look.

-vicky

Whole Foods Series Begins

Thursday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. come to the library for the first of three programs on whole foods. This Thursday the library will show a documentary on the "disturbing truth behind the food we buy in the grocery store". It examines the complex forces that are changing how and what we eat and offers alternatives. There will be a moderated discussion after the film.

On Thursday, May 24 at 7:00 p.m. Holistic Health Counselor Corrina Richards will lecture on how to incorporate whole foods into your daily life.

On Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 p.m. Corrina Richards returns to give a whole foods cooking demonstration. She will prepare delectable, unprocessed, fresh-from-the-earth samples that will nourish your whole self.

Call the library to register for the lecture or the cooking demonstration. 665-8700.
No registration necessary for the documentary.

-vicky

One Book 4 Towns Finale - May 16

Archer Mayor will discuss The Surrogate Thief, his other books in the series and writing in general at the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library at 7:00 p.m. Archer will answer questions and sign books. Books will be available for purchase at the program. Admission is free.

Who is the surrogate thief?

Should Gail run for office?

Do you think she knew what her campaign manager did near the end of the book?

What emotions do the two cases stir up in Joe?

Get these and many more questions answered at the finale of our One Book 4 Towns program.

-vicky