This Tuesday evening, June 17, this Library will be rockin’! Detroit Garage band The High Strung will be here to lead off our summer reading program with a few hot guitar licks! There will be no shhshing going on here that night (the concert will actually take place on our south lawn - bring your blanket or lawn chair).
With an opening act by Avon Lake’s own sensation, Alana Bilancini, this concert promises to be one of the big acts of the summer here in Avon Lake and is suitable for all ages. The audience will participate in improvising and performing a premier rock ‘n roll composition.
While you’re here, be sure to sign up for one of our three, count them, three, summer reading contests. We’ve got contests, and prizes, for children, teens and adults! And don’t forget our Picture You ReadingContest.
Regular readers of this blog and visitors to the Avon Lake Library may recall Rachel’s Mugs. Rachel Miller is a peace corp worker from Painesville working in Guinagourou, Benin. Rachel is working with the community there to build a library and her mom, Susan, who’s a skilled potter, created and sold some gorgeous mugs to raise money for the project. Our patrons and staff purchased many of those mugs. Rachel is home on leave for her sister’s high school graduation and she and Susan stopped by to say hi and give us an update.
All the money has been raised, the foundation poured, and Rachel worked along side community members of all ages to make 8000 huge bricks! The roof, made of tin, will be raised shortly. The first books are on order and six teen intern librarians have been chosen to work under a village teacher’s supervision to staff what is truly a community library!
Rachel, Susan and the people of Guinagourou are grateful for the support of the people of Avon Lake who contributed half the money needed to make this library happen. And we’re grateful for our beautiful mugs (dishwasher and microwave safe even).
Join Joe Reitz, Avon Lake City Engineer and Al, the infamous alligator from the sewer, to learn about the City’s work to preserve water quality and what you can do to assure that you, your family and your neighbors will continue to have fresh, clean water to enjoy.Joe and Al have an entertaining and informative presentation to share and there will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion.Clean, pure, highly potable Avon Lake water will be served.
Send us a picture of yourself reading a Library book in a favorite or unusual setting and we’ll post it on Avon Lake Public Library’s flickr page. A selection of photos will also be displayed at the Library and here on our blog. You might be reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson while on the Appalachian Trail or The Ohio Gardening Guide by Jerry Minnich out by your tomato patch. Use your creativity and sense of fun.
Send your photo as an attachment to refdesk@avonlake.lib.oh.us before August 15 with your name and address in the message. Photos must be no larger than 2 MB. Here at the Library, Adult Service librarians, with your permission, can TRY to help you in copying your photo from a memory stick/CD/USB. We’ll post pictures as we receive them.
After August 15, prizes will be awarded for:
The photo taken the farthest away from Avon Lake (as evident from the photo itself)
The best photo featuring an identifiable setting in Avon Lake
The best match between the book and its setting or activity
The best overall photo
Winners will be chosen by a random panel of Library staff and patrons. We do not guarantee that panel members know anything about photography or art or will make their selections based on any objective criteria, though all members will be chosen for their well-developed senses of fun. Winners will receive a fancy certificate, suitable for framing (depending on your standards), and bragging rights.
I grant permission to Avon Lake Public Library to use depictions and reproductions of my photograph or portion thereof, including electronic formats, for non-commercial purposes.
This photograph is my creation, and I have the right to grant this permission and the consent of all individual(s) featured.
I also understand that I will not receive compensation in any form for the use of my likeness in the photograph or for the photograph itself.
I do hereby certify that I am 13 years or older.
Further, I release the Avon Lake Public Library from all claims of any kind arising from such production, use, distribution or broadcasting of the photograph.
I give this consent voluntarily.
Further rules:
The title of the book must be clearly visible in the photograph.
The Library reserves the right to refuse any photographs it deems unsuitable.
Library staff and their families are not eligible for prizes.
Young Adult and every day patron Zac Hoenig just won the first place Gold Medal at the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Skills Competition at Hocking College in Nelsonville. This winning young man received a perfect score for his hospitality industry research project and presentation. Zac is about to graduate from Lorain County Joint Vocational School where he majored in hospitality. His Grand Prize includes a two-year full scholarship to Hocking Technical College. Way to go, Zac!
Along with his formal education, Zac spends quite a bit of time at the Library reading up on a variety of topics. It’s been my pleasure to help him with his research. He also is active with his church youth group and is currently fundraising for a second trip to Mississipi with the group to help rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Zac is a friendly, thoughtful and hard-working young man who makes me hopeful for our future. Congratulations Zac on a well-deserved achievement!
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
Be sure to check out our Earth Day display of books on the Avenue in the Library and tomorrow night (Wednesday, April 23) at 7:30, come hear local author and culinary instructor Marilou Suszko tell us about her new book, Farms and Foods of Ohio, and the wonderful fresh food to be found right here in our bountiful state. Marilou shares her many marvelous stories of farms, farmers and good, wholesome food. She’ll tell us where and how to find the best local food, and give us great ideas about preparing it. Eat local, read local! Of course, we’ve got this book in our collection for you to check out.
This Wednesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m., we’ll be welcoming local blogger and all-around techie Gregg Eldred for a program on social media and web 2.0.
Want to know what the buzz is all about? Blogs, wikis, Facebook, MySpace? Want to join in the conversation or just know what your kids are up to online? Are you concerned about your company’s presence on the web or looking for ways to promote your business?
Gregg will lead us into the thicket and onto the World Wide Web.
Our friends at TrueNorth Cultural Arts will be presenting The Creation by Joseph Haydn on Friday, March 14 at Avon Lake United Church of Christ and Saturday, March 15 at French Creek Nature Center, both at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.TNCArts.org or from any TrueNorth musician.
Our Jane Austen Book and Movie Group will be discussing “the Austen book,” Pride and Prejudice, at their February 13 meeting. The group is led by Avon Lake resident and serious Austen-phile Jen Snyder, and they’d love to have you join them. It’s a Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.
March 12, also a Wednesday but at 6:30 p.m., the group will screen the 2006 movie with Keira Knightly, Matthew Macfadyen, Donald Sunderland and Judi Dench. If you haven’t seen it, it’s an eye feast. The movie will be shown in our MacMahan Room with state-of-the-art projection and sound equipment.
Beyond the wonders of Jane Austen’s writing and her sharp social observations, some of the fun of Austen is in the numerous adaptations of the story in modern novels and movies. One of my favorites is Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood version of the novel. We have a copy here at the library and I heartily recommend checking it out for a cold winter night’s entertainment. Along with the romance and humor, those scenes in tropical India are a delightful contrast to windy grey Cleveland in February.
And then there’s this youtube version, with its literal take on Pride.
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