May 2019 - Event Newsletter

May 2019

Library Newsletter Guide to Free Programs and Events

ArtWalk 2019 May 10th

LOOK INSIDE! • Floral Workshop • Book Groups • Health & Wellness • Technology Classes

Children & Special Adults Fire Safety

May 6th

• Art & Crafts • Gaming • Teen Coding Class • Graphic Novel Workshop • Kids’ Storytime

What’s New in London?

May 30th

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ADULTS

Visit laurellibrary.org or call 864-5759 to register for events.

Free Paper Shredding at the Library

Special Adults Program: Fire Safety

Are you concerned about identity theft and unauthorized disclosure of private information? The library has the answer to your dilemma. Locked containers from Secure Stream will be on site for collecting confidential documents. Full containers will be picked up and taken to the local Secure Stream site for shredding and recycling.

Meet our heroes from the London City Fire Department. During this program participants will learn tips about fire prevention and safety, see tools and equipment used by fire fighters, and tour a fire truck. Participants’ caretakers need to be present. For ages 16 and older.

Wednesday, May 1st • 9am-4pm Location: Library Lobby NO REGISTRATION

Limit of 3-4 medium-size boxes per person.

“Signs” of Summer

Thursday, May 2nd • 1-2:30pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION REQUIRED Summer is in the air and it’s time to let your creativity “blossom” during this fun workshop. Participants will use a wooden board to design and paint their own decorative summer sign.

ArtWalk 2019

Friday, May 10th • 4-7pm Location: Auditorium NO REGISTRATION RTEC ArtWalk is a free family event that will showcase local and regional artists who combine astounding visual art with unique craftsmanship. Artists will be demonstrating their skills on-site.

Finished items will be available for purchase from the artists, if desired.

This year art activities for teens and children will take place from 4-6pm in the area near the auditorium.

Monday, May 6th • 1-2pm Location: Auditorium REGISTRATION REQUIRED RTEC

Designing Supermarket Flowers into Beautiful Bouquets Tuesday, May 7th • 6-7:30pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Green Thumbs Garden Club member Drucie Brown will show us how to transform inexpensive flowers into expensive bouquets. Proper treatments that enable flowers to stay fresh longer will also be discussed.

Mah Jongg

Thursday, May 9th • 5:30-7:30pm Location: Kentucky Room NO REGISTRATION Similar to the Western game of rummy, Mah Jongg is a game of skill, strategy, and calculation and involves a degree of chance. Experienced players, see if the tiles fall your way during a fun evening of play. If you’ve never played, please contact us before attending.

Heart Healthy Eating: Don’t Pass the Salt Tuesday, May 14th • 6-7:30pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION REQUIRED RTEC

Salt is an ingredient in just about every type of processed food or restaurant meal, so when you begin a low-sodium heart diet, figuring out where to start can seem overwhelming. The goal of this class is to go over the basics: low sodium staples to stock your pantry, ways to reduce salt and boost flavor in your home cooking, and heart-friendly restaurant recommendations.

Presenter Kaelin Telschow will discuss her family’s adjustment to a low-sodium heart diet and will demonstrate several heart healthy dishes. Sample tastings will be available for participants.

Books and Banter

Tuesday, May 14th • 6:30-7:30pm Location: Kentucky Room NO REGISTRATION We’ll be talking about The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth. Everyone is curious about new neighbor Isabelle, but is her friendship with Essie the real thing or does Isabelle know more about Essie’s past than she’s admitting?

Bite Size Learning: Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention

Wednesday, May 15th • 12-1pm Location: Auditorium REGISTRATION REQUIRED RTEC

Just in time for summer, Dr. Don Morring will be here to discuss the following topics in relation to melanoma skin cancer: prevention, causes, risk factors, early detection, diagnosis, and much more. Bite Size Learning is an educational, free lunch series brought to you by CHI Saint Joseph Health.

Matinee Movie: Wild Hogs

Wednesday, May 15th • 2-4pm Location: Auditorium REGISTRATION APPRECIATED RTEC This month the library is featuring the hilarious classic comedy Wild Hogs starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy. You won’t stop laughing as four suburban biker wannabes looking for adventure hit the open road, but get more than they bargained for when they encounter a New Mexico gang. Rated PG-13.

Murder by the Book

Thursday, May 16th • 6-7pm Location: Kentucky Room NO REGISTRATION This month we’ll discuss Tony Hillerman’s crime novel, The Blessing Way. An abandoned corpse is found with a mouth full of sand at a crime scene that is devoid of tracks or useful clues leading Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn to suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.

Writers’ Ink

Monday, May 20th • 4-5pm Location: Kentucky Room REGISTRATION APPRECIATED If you’re interested in improving your writing skills and finding other writers to share ideas and techniques with, then come to the Laurel County Public Library for this month’s writers’ group meeting. Associate Professor Amanda Morris from Somerset Community College will facilitate the session.

Holiday Hours: The library will be closed on Sunday, May 26th and Monday, May 27th in observance of Memorial Day.

True Crime Cases: Dear Zachary Tuesday, May 28th • 5-7pm Location: Auditorium REGISTRATION REQUIRED RTEC

This month we’ll be watching and discussing the documentary Dear Zachary. In 2001, 28-year old Dr. Andrew Bagby is found dead in a Pennsylvania park. He’d been shot by his pregnant ex-girlfriend who then fled to Canada and was eventually allowed to walk free on bail.

Andrew’s enraged parents campaign to gain custody of their grandson and to convict their son’s killer.

Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne shot this film hoping to give his best friend’s son an opportunity to discover who his dad was.

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Ride with RTEC! Free transportation is available for designated programs by calling the library and scheduling what time you’d like to be picked up and brought to the library and what time you’d like to arrive back at home. Your trip to and from the library will be covered so you’ll be on your way to enjoying all the library offers.

Look for the RTEC symbol to see which programs qualify for transportation.

Transportation for other library services is available as scheduling permits.

All arrangements MUST be made 48 hours prior to the time you wish to visit the library to allow for scheduling.

Call 864-5759 and provide us with the following: • Name • Address • Telephone number • Number and ages of riders • Pick up time (for home and library)

What’s New in London?

Thursday, May 30th • 6-7pm Location: Auditorium REGISTRATION REQUIRED RTEC Have you seen new businesses popping up in town?

Would you like to learn more about what retail and industrial businesses have joined or are joining our community?

Paula Thompson, Executive Director of London-Laurel County Industrial Development Authority, will provide updates on these businesses, new jobs created, and their economic impact on London.

Online Genealogy Resources Using your library card, you can easily access a comprehensive collection of popular online genealogy databases to help you piece together your families lineage. Visit laurellibrary.org/resources to get started!

Ancestry Library Edition provides access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos, plus local narratives, oral histories, indexes, and other resources in over 30,000 databases that span from the 1500s to the 2000s.

TECHNOLOGY CLASSES The Laurel County Public Library offers a wide range of technology classes to help you develop and improve the skills that are so important in the digital age.

With different topics being taught each month, a knowledgeable staff, and hands-on learning, there’s sure to be something we can help you with. Participants must have a library card, valid email address, and be 18+ to participate.

Computer Basics

Thursday, May 9th • 1-2:30pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION APPRECIATED RTEC Learn basics like how to start your computer, save and re-open a file, and create a folder in this class.

The MyHeritage database contains over 6 billion historical records, including census, military, newspapers, birth/ marriage/death records, directories, family trees, and many other record types. The record collections are most comprehensive for North America and Europe, but the database does contain hundreds of millions of records from other regions.

HeritageQuest is a collection of databases including the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1940) searchable index with record images; the PERSI Archive, a regional history and genealogy index; selected records from the Revolutionary War; Freedman’s Bank, which includes records from depositors in the bank of African American ancestry; and an assortment of digitized genealogy materials such as family history books, city directories, and tax lists.

Intermediate Excel

Monday, May 20th • 1-2:30pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION APPRECIATED RTEC Brush up on Excel in today’s class. There will be review of old skills and lessons on new skills.

Online Job Research

Friday, May 24th • 1-2:30pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION APPRECIATED RTEC Looking for a job? This class will give you some tips to searching online using popular job search sites and other useful resources.

FamilySearch is one of the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services each year to learn more about their family history. Their database contains over 4 billion names and thousands of images archived over the past 100 years.

We also offer our Kentucky Room located in the back of the library which is dedicated to the history, literature, and unique artwork you can only find in Kentucky. There you can access Laurel County census records, military records, American Indian records, archived editions of the Sentinel Echo, and more!

TEENS

Grades: 7-12th Visit laurellibrary.org or call 864-5759 to register for events.

Art on the Spot

ALL MONTH LONG Location: Teen Space NO REGISTRATION Stop by the Teen Space and create your own masterpiece!

Design your own artwork on a sticky note or you can use the other materials that we leave!

Teen Coding

Tuesday, May 7th • 6-7pm Location: Children’s Department REGISTRATION REQUIRED Do you enjoy working with computers? Grab a friend and come by the library to learn more about writing code using one of the library laptops.

Graphic Novel Workshop

Wednesday, May 15th • 5-6pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION APPRECIATED If you’ve always wanted to create your own graphic novel then this is the perfect workshop for you! We’ll have templates you can use and this will be a great opportunity to share your work with others!

Art Club: Forest Scenes Friday, May 17th • 5-6pm Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION

Stop by the library and put your painting skills to work.

We’ll have books and photos on hand that will inspire you to paint a peaceful forest scene.

Painting Party!

Wednesday, May 8th • 5-6pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION APPRECIATED Grab a friend and let your creativity soar during our painting party! We’ll have paint, canvas, and food!

Teen Art Station

Friday, May 10th • 5-6pm Location: Auditorium Lobby NO REGISTRATION Stop by the auditorium during our ArtWalk and create a beautiful work of art on canvas! When you’re finished you can take you artwork with you or leave it and it will be displayed in the Teen Space!

Wii Wednesday

Wednesday, May 22nd • 4-6pm Location: Auditorium NO REGISTRATION Let the battle begin! Stop in today and choose from one of our Wii games. Do you have what it takes to be the Wii Wednesday Winner?

Mystery Art Box Challenge Thursday, May 23rd • 6-7pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION APPRECIATED

Tonight we’ll be passing out mysterious boxes that contain mysterious art supplies and you’ll create a mysterious work of art with the contents. Do you have what it takes to win the mysterious prize and claim the title as Master of the Mystery Art Box?

Digital Magazines Instantly access 100+ popular magazine publications on any device through Kentucky Libraries Unbound on your Libby or Overdrive App.

Love to discuss books? Join us on Goodreads by searching for “Laurel Library” under the groups section of their website.

TWEENS

Visit laurellibrary.org/collection/ to get started.

Ages: 9-13 Visit laurellibrary.org or call 864-5759 to register for events.

Tornadoes in a Bottle

Monday, May 6th • 4-5pm Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION Let’s have fun doing a science experiment during our program! We’ll learn some interesting facts, safety tips, and then we’ll make a tornado in a bottle to take home!

Ceramic Bobble Figures Monday, May 13th • 4-5pm Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION Today we’ll be painting ceramic bobble people!

You can have fun creating your own original keepsake sidekick!

DIY Lucky Ducks

Monday, May 20th • 4-5pm Location: Community Room REGISTRATION REQUIRED Everyone needs a lucky rubber ducky! Get creative and have fun decorating your own rubber duck to take home.

Book Buzz

Tuesday, May 21st • 4-5pm Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION How well do you know your Jurassic Park dinosaurs? Today we’ll test your knowledge with some Jurassic Park trivia, then do a reading challenge with some sweet treat rewards.

Ceramic Tile Art

Thursday, May 23rd • 4-5pm Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION Did you know that you can make cool art using ceramic tiles? We’ll create colorful designs and patterns on our tiles and have lovely art we can take home and display.

KIDS

Ages: Up to age 9 Visit laurellibrary.org or call 864-5759 to register for events.

Fire Safety with the London Fire Department

Monday, May 6th • 10:30-11:30am Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION RTEC The London City Fire Department will roll in with a firetruck to give kids an up close look at all the equipment that is used to save lives. Get inside a firetruck, try on the gear, and learn what it takes to be a fire fighter.

Kids will also learn fire safety tips that will teach them what to do in an emergency.

Preschool Playdate

Homeschool Happenings: Ships Ahoy!

Friday, May 10th • 11am-12pm Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION

Thursday, May 16th • 10:30-11:30am Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION

Let’s have a playdate at the library! We’ll meet up with our old friends and make some new ones! Let’s dance, read stories, play, and enjoy a fun time together!

Let’s use our best engineering skills to construct little boats that can carry heavy loads of pennies. We’ll discover how to measure surface area and have a great time floating our boats!

LEGO Club

Thursday, May 16th • 6-7pm Location: Community Room NO REGISTRATION Parents! Did you know that building with LEGOs enhances fine motor skills? Bring your favorite master builder and take advantage of the library’s LEGO collection. Take home a LEGO book full of fun ideas that will keep building on your child’s imagination.

Paint, Rattle, and Roll

Friday, May 10th• 4-6pm Location: Auditorium Patio NO REGISTRATION RTEC Stop by the library and paint using objects that rattle and roll! While kids are busy working on their art projects, parents and grandparents can view the wonderful art work displayed in the auditorium by local artists!

Children’s Movie: A Dog’s Way Home Saturday, May 18th • 11am-1pm Location: Auditorium NO REGISTRATION

Enjoy this heartwarming movie about a dog that travels more than 300 miles to find his owner after they’re separated. This touching movie will leave you with a happy heart! This movie is rated PG.

SUMMER READING JUNE - JULY

VENTRILOQUIST BARRY MITCHELL FRISCH MARIONET TES PLANETARIUM BRIGHT STAR TOURING THEATRE LIFE-SIZED CANDYLAND BEACH PARTY ART ACTIVITIES MOVIES AND MUCH MORE!

Storytime Schedule Tuesday 10am • Babygarten 11am • Ready to Read

Wednesday 10am • Babygarten 11am • Ready to Read 4pm • Readers are Leaders Which Storytime is best for your child?

Babygarten: Designed for children up to age 3, this program provides a basic understanding of child development, while providing an engaging time for children and caregivers!

Ready to Read: This interactive storytime is designed for preschool aged children, and focuses on building cognitive, social, physical, and early literacy skills.

Readers are Leaders: Geared for school aged students, this program provides a time to discuss books, play games, and participate in exciting hands-on activities.

ON DISPLAY

Small Wonders: Insects In Focus Now - May 25th

In the air, water, and even under foot, insects inhabit every domain of our daily lives, performing essential functions that balance our fragile ecosystem on earth. By using cutting-edge technology and custom methods, artist Bob Sober created Small Wonders: Insects in Focus, an exhibition of breathtaking beauty that allows viewers to see this hidden world like they’ve never seen it before. Small Wonders aims to inspire, in an artistic way, our natural curiosity to understand the form, function, and diversity of nature.

COMING IN MAY

OUTREACH SERVICES

Do you know someone with mobility or transportation issues who would enjoy a library delivery or bookmobile stop? Send them our way!

After a simple application process, we’ll work them into our routes as soon as possible and they’ll enjoy getting library materials every two weeks from our bookmobile staff.

Below is a current schedule for the bookmobile and outreach services:

WEEK 1

WEEK 2

MONDAY

MONDAY

Apartment Route

Carnaby/490 Route

House of Manor, Arlington Green, Noah Lane, and County Farm apartments, plus residential stops nearby

Carnaby Square Apartments, plus residential stops nearby

TUESDAY

Nursing Home Route

Pickup/Delivery

Parkway Route/490 Route Bookmobile

Cedar Lane Apartments, Little Shepherd’s, and London Village, plus residential stops nearby

WEDNESDAY

Lily/Campground Route Bookmobile

Little Learners, plus residential stops nearby

THURSDAY

School Route Bookmobile

Sonlight Preschool, and Refuge Baptist Academy, plus residential stops nearby

Bookmobile

TUESDAY

Pick-up/Delivery

Laurel Heights, Village Heights, and Laurel Village, plus residential stops nearby

WEDNESDAY

South Laurel Route Bookmobile

Hillcrest Nursing Home, plus residential stops nearby

THURSDAY

School Route Bookmobile

Cornerstone Preschool, McDaniel Learning Center, and The Creek Academy, plus residential stops nearby

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The library makes every reasonable effort to provide equal access to all patrons.

Please contact us at (606) 864-5759 at least three days in advance to request accommodations.