HUTCHINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY
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U NDERWATER P HOTOGRAPHER Bring your family and friends to the library auditorium on Friday, October 2, to meet children’s author and award-winning nature photographer Michael Patrick O’Neill. He will begin at 2:30 pm and will include a demonstration of SCUBA equipment and underwater cameras. O’Neill’s books include FISHY FRIENDS, LET’S EXPLORE SHARKS, LET’S EXPLORE SEA TURTLES, LET’S EXPLORE CORAL REEFS, OCEAN, and MAGIC SHARK ENCOUNTERS. His books and presentations are designed to encourage children to read and become involved in science and conservation. He’s a popular speaker who has presented to 60,000 children in more than 170 schools and libraries across the United States. ESSDAK offered to partner with the library to bring O’Neill to Hutchinson and
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Friends of the Library have agreed to sponsor the library’s afternoon program. ESSDAK has arranged for a few area schools to sponsor programs in the morning and early afternoon before the library session at 2:30 on October 2. Born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, O’Neill has been an avid conservationist since childhood. Fishing trips to the Amazon and abroad during his formative years whetted his appetite for exploration. At age 18, he moved to the US to attend Lehigh University and to begin his career in advertising, consulting and financial services. In 1991, he relocated to South Florida. With the Gulf Stream at his doorstep, he began photographing the area’s rich marine life while pursuing a corporate career and obtaining his MBA from the University of Miami.
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For the past 16 years, he has traveled extensively as a photographer and writer, concentrating primarily on sea life and environmental issues. His work has been widely published in magazines such as Field & Stream, BBC Wildlife, National Geographic Explorer, and others. To visit his web site, go to http:// www.batfishbooks.com and for his photography site, visit www.mpostock.com . Photograph of Mr. O’Neill and above information courtesy of the web site, www.batfishbooks.com .
LIBRARY FALL BOOK SALE
Take the west elevator to the basement to browse the huge selection of used books:
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Thursday, Oct. 29 4:00—8:00 pm, Friends Members’ Preview Night Friday, Oct. 30 9:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, Oct. 31 9:00 am —3:00 pm, Sack Sale
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The HPL 2010 Project --stay tuned for details
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C HILDREN ’ S S TORYTIMES B EGIN S EPTEMBER 22, 23, & 24 For 2 year olds TODDLER TIME: Tuesdays, 9:30-10 am or 10:30-11 am beginning September 22
Choose a time and join the library storytellers in the children’s activity room for puppet plays, filmstrips, finger plays, action rhymes, and stories. For more information, call the Children’s Department, 620663-5441, ext. 145.
For 3, 4, & 5 year olds PRE-SCHOOL STORY TIME: Wednesdays 9:30-10:15 or Thursdays 9:30-10:15 or 1:45-2:30, starting September 23 & 24
READ TO ROVER Second Thursday of each month @ 6:00-7:00 p.m. Children’s Activity Room Please stop by the Children’s Desk or call 620-663-5441, ext.145 to sign up.
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How to teach $ $ $ your kids about money
Like reading, writing and arithmetic, teaching kids about money and saving is an important and valuable life skill. Its never too late to teach kids the right way to handle money. This seminar will teach parents a way to educate kids about money and give practical ways to lead them in the right direction. Parents will receive a FREE “Financial Kid’s Kit” for each attending child.
Oct. 1st or Oct. 6th @ 7 pm
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Hutchinson Public Library Children’s Activity Room For more details please call Chad Martens, Bill Kliewer or Joe Kukula @ 620-669-8291 or the Hutchinson Library @ 620-663-5441, ext. 145
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Mini Memoirs presented by Sheila Lisman
Three Tuesday evenings— October 6, 13, 20 — 7:00 pm Conference Room 2 Learn how to write short, descriptive excerpts from your life as presented by retired Hutchinson High School English teacher and current Hutchinson News community columnist Sheila Lisman. The group will meet in conference room 2 located on the 2nd floor of the library.
Registration is requested and limited to 15 participants. To sign up, please contact Annette at the Library, 620-663-5441, ext. 132. Purchase a library travel mug and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea while you browse in the stacks or read your daily newspaper! Mugs available at either Circulation desk, $5.00. Coffee and hot tea available at the kiosk below the mezzanine, suggested donation 50 cents per refill.
"British Classics", Fall Book Discussion Groups sponsored by
Hutchinson Public Library Oct. 8 - FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, by Thomas Hardy (Discussion leader: Bill Brown, Salina)
Nov. 5 - JANE EYRE, by Charlotte Bronte (Discussion leader: Linda Lewis, Lindsborg) The groups will meet at the library at 6:30 p.m. for each discussion. If you're interested in joining one or all of the sessions, register by contacting Annette Smith at 620-663-5441, ext. 132 or e-mail amsmith@hutchpl.org .
Multiple copies of books for check out, discussion leaders, and special publicity materials provided by:
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Hazel Zink and the Wrinkle Box Players performed for a Family Time during music week this summer. Kids learn a few dance steps from Valerie Stephenson from Judy’s School of Dance during a summer Family Time. Kim Stanley, McPherson College, leads a discussion of EMMA by Jane Austen Sept.10. EMMA is the first Talk About Literature in Kansas title in the series “British Classics”, a book discussion series co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council.
Children catch the beat with Lori Johnson, from Johnson Music Center at another summer Family Time.