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School Vacation Week at the Gardiner Public Library
We had a wonderfully full school vacation week here in the library. Story time & crafts were on Tuesday morning at 10:30, then a Bugs, Bugs, Bugs program & craft with L.C. Bates Museum in the afternoon funded by Crossroads Youth Center and through a generous grant received by the Maine Community Foundation. Thursday was an Origami Fish Folding Workshop. Each program had a great number of people in attendance. Other things happening were Legos, as well as the train set, doll house, and Puppet Theater. We were so happy here with all the participation for each event. This is …
What’s Going On?!?!?!
Over the next couple of weeks, we have several irons in the fire. National Library Week is celebrated from April 10 – 16 this year. We have a display of “library” related books for your perusal. The ALA (American Library Association) theme for the week is “Libraries Transform Lives”. As part of the promotional campaign, we have blank “speech bubbles” available for folks to let us know how a library may have transformed your life! Next time you’re in the library, pick up one at the desk, and we’ll add it to our on-going display! School Vacation week is …
Passenger Pigeons in the Library!
On a windy Thursday afternoon, April 24th, the library held an origami workshop on Passenger Pigeons. Isabelle Files led the program where attendees came and folded 62 Passenger Pigeons for the www.foldtheflock.orgproject. We will enter our number of pigeons with the website. Attendees were ages 4 and up and all seemed to have a great time. We had a short history given to us about the year 2014 marking the centennial anniversary of the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and questions were asked about other extinct animals in our world. The very lively group did more folding …