February 2010 Events

Tiny Tots Time – Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
This program brings babies and caregivers together for an hour of stimulating experiences intended to nurture the bond between caregiver and child and to increase the caregiver’s awareness of their child’s development.

Preschool Story Time – Fridays at 10 a.m.
Help your child prepare for school while having fun too! Meaningful literacy activities, such as reading, singing and playing with children, can impact a child’s brain development and subsequently, help provide them with the pre-reading skills they need to start school.

Homeownership Resource Center – Monday, Feb. 1 and 8 from 5-8 p.m.
From January 11 through February 8 the Homeownership Resource Center is open to answer your questions. Learn about down payments, refinancing, renovation programs, equity lines, loans, credit, budgeting, assistance programs and more.

English Conversation Group – Wednesdays at 1 p.m.
For students learning English as a second language, this is a chance for you to practice everyday conversation skills.

Foreign Film – Tuesday, February 2 at 6:30 p.m.
Linda, Linda, Linda (114 minutes, Not Rated, in Japanese with English subtitles) Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert.

Basic Email – Thursday, February 4 at 1:30 p.m.
Set up a web-based email account. Learn to manage your account, send and receive email, add attachments and more. Registration is required.

Library Board Meeting – Thursday, February 11 at 4 p.m.

Paranormal Valentine’s Day Party – Friday, February 12 at 7 p.m.
Teens in grades 8-12 are invited to dress up like a love-sick vampire, ghost, werewolf, zombie, or other creature and celebrate V-day the monster way. You can make fake blood, tattoo henna bite marks on your neck, and much, much more.

Chocolate Brunch – Saturday, February 13 at 10 a.m.
Start your day the rich-and-creamy way. This free family Valentine event features a chocolate fountain with bread and fruit for dipping, as well as traditional breakfast foods with secret Valentine ingredients. Drop in any time between 10 a.m. and noon.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians Party – Saturday, February 13 from 1-2 p.m.
Calling all Demigods! Come to Camp Half Blood to compete in the REAL Olympics. Join your cabin-mates in completing a series of strenuous challenges. Then go on a quest to earn your place on Mount Olympus. (A free program for grades 4-8.)

Knitting 101 – Mondays, February 15 – March 8, at 6 p.m.
Have you always wanted to learn to knit but never found the time? Then this class is for you! Meet once a week for four weeks with other beginning knitters to learn how to cast on and bind off, knit and purl. Students will also complete a simple project. There is no cost for this program and all supplies will be provided. Please contact the library to register.

Film – Tuesday, February 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Elephant (Rated R, 80 minutes) This realistic drama takes us inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. With each student, we see high school through a different lens, ranging from friendly and innocent to traumatic and disturbing. It’s an ordinary high school day. Except that it’s not.


Book Discussion– Thursday, February 18 @ 7 p.m.
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Caelum and Maureen Quirk move to Littleton, Colorado, to work at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum travels to Connecticut to be with his sick aunt, Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously she survives, but is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum grapples with revelations from the past and struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary -- and American.

Sport Stacking – Saturday, February 20 at 12:30 p.m.
Who knew plastic cups could be so much fun? If you’re in grades 4-8, try your hand at this fast-paced, exciting game. Watch a how-to video on the basics of Sport Stacking at this web site, then come to the library February 20 to try it yourself!

Sock Hop – Friday, February 26 from 6-8 p.m.
The whole family is invited to twist and shout at the library after hours! Take off your shoes and let your socks lead the way, move to the music as our DJ plays all your favorites. Do the Chicken Dance, the Bunny Hop, Walk Like an Egyptian, and more. Parents and grandparents, spend an evening moving and grooving (and laughing) with the children in your life at the Library Sock Hop!

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Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.

As a runner, I give this book a solid 10. By the end of it I was so inspired about running that I wanted to just go and run 50 miles right out the gate. I'm not even kidding (however, I thought better of that and decided to stick to my 5-mile jaunts). So, way to be super inspiring, Born to Run! But even if you're not a runner, there's fascinating stuff here: about the way we appear to have evolved to be the world's greatest distance-running species; about the way that modern, "advanced" running shoes tend to promote more injuries, not fewer injuries, than the cheapest shoes on the the market, than the shoes of yesteryear, than no shoes at all; about a tribe of people who--every single one of them--can achieve feats of endurance running that seem superhuman to us, but probably are in reach of all human beings.

~Katrina