Events
Calendar of Events
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Summer Reading Book Club: In July we will meet to discuss "Dragon Teeth" by Michael Crichton. Books are ordered through interlibrary loan. You do not need to purchase books. Just let the library staff know of your interest. They will place a hold on the title for you and you will receive notification when the… |
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1 event,“I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like…Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music.” -Monica Baldwin |
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1 event,“Oh sure, I’ll only eat half the ice cream sandwich…said no one ever.” -Unknown |
2 events,“Life is a watermelon. Pull out the seeds of woe to taste the pulp of joy.” -Sushmitha Sriram Kumar
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Jake Koval, our library's Digital Navigator will be at the library to help with your phone, tablet, and laptop questions. He also has laptops to borrow. Stop in and get help with your questions. |
1 event,“The strength of my mother is something I didn’t pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, “I’m getting my kids out of here. I’m creating opportunities for these young people by any means… |
1 event,“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” -Wayne Dyer |
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Join us in watching "You, Me and Tuscany". You are welcome to bring your own comfy camp chair, snacks, and beverage. The library will provide popcorn. |
1 event,“A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!” -Mehmet Murat Ildan |
1 event,TARANTULA APPRECIATION DAY “Yet here we have the young Tarantula, wishing to leave her mother and to travel far away by the easiest and swiftest methods, suddenly becoming an enthusiastic climber. We know her object. From on high, finding a wide space beneath her, she sends a thread floating. It is caught by the wind,… |
1 event,NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY "That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.” -Anthony Trollope |
2 events,Amy (Zepczyk) Janecek, Ashland County Elder Benefit Specialist, will return on the second Monday of the month, 9am-noon in September. AGENT ORANGE AWARENESS DAY “We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.” -Jim McDermott |
2 events,“The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.” -Casper David Friedrich
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You are welcome to bring your comfortable camp chairs, snacks, and beverage. The library will supply popcorn. |
1 event,NATIONAL VINYL RECORD DAY “I’ve always been a fan of vinyl. There’s something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you’ll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation… |
3 events,INTERNATIONAL LEFT HANDERS DAY “The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.” -Victor Hugo
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On Thursday, August 13th, the Friends of the Library will hold their regular monthly meeting at the library at 5pm. New members are welcome! Following the Friends meeting a movie will be shown at about 6pm. You are welcome to bring your own comfortable camp chairs, snacks, and beverages. The library will supply the popcorn. At… |
3 events,NAVAJO CODE TALKERS DAY “We used our language, the sacred language of our people, to create acode that helped save lives and end the war.” -Code Talker
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Acrylic Painting at the Library: You may bring: your own canvas, brushes, water container, chalk pencil, (If desired: easel, snack and beverage). You are welcome to use the supplies available at the library. We have canvases, brushes, chalk, and paint, but they may or may not be the size canvas or brushes, or paint colors…
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Acrylic Painting at the Library: You may bring: your own canvas, brushes, water container, chalk pencil, (If desired: easel, snack and beverage). You are welcome to use the supplies available at the library. We have canvases, brushes, chalk, and paint, but they may or may not be the size canvas or brushes, or paint colors… |
1 event,NATIONAL RELAXATION DAY “You are worthy of rest. We don’t have to earn rest. Rest is not a luxury, a privilege, or a bonus we must wait for once we are burned out. I hear so many repeat the myth of rest being a privilege and I understand this concept and still deeply disagree with… |
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2 events,NATIONAL THRIFT SHOP DAY “Thrifting isn’t about being cheap, it’s about being clever, creative and kind to the planet.”-Anonymous
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Jake Koval, our library's Digital Navigator will be at the library to help with your phone, tablet, and laptop questions. He also has laptops to borrow. Stop in and get help with your questions. |
2 events,SERENDIPITY DAY “Serendipity: such a beautiful word describing the occurrence of events by chance. I like to think it’s the energy you put out into the world returning to you with love.” -Steven P. Aitchison
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You are welcome to bring your own comfortable camp chairs, snacks, and beverage. The library will supply popcorn. Today movie will be Hoppers. |
1 event,NATIONAL AVIATION DAY “Flying is freedom. The freedom to explore the world from above, to dance with the clouds and escape the bonds of earth.” -Richard Bach |
2 events,NATIONAL RADIO DAY “The power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.” -Hallie Flanagan
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Calling all grown-ups to a Storytime just for you. Our theme will be The County Fair. I’ll have a story, poem, game or activity, song, and craft project for us to do. They will all be based around our theme. Please register to attend, so that I have enough supplies for everyone. But don’t let… |
2 events,HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY “Wear aloha in every action; let it shape your choices.” -Leilani Makai
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Paint with Skye to create, "Splatter Galaxy" Wear a paint shirt and bring an old can for cleaning your brushes. All other materials will be supplied. |
1 event,NATIONAL BE AN ANGEL DAY “Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.” -Eileen Elias Freeman |
1 event,FIND YOUR INNER NERD DAY “Nerds are just people who are passionate about what they love.” -Jacob Miller |
2 events,NATIONAL WAFFLE DAY “There’s something about waffle geometry and the transformative power of the waffle iron that turns a recipe into an adventure and if there’s one thing that’s become clear to me, it’s that I’m not the only one who finds adventure irresistible.” -Daniel Shumski
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Summer Reading Book Club: In August we will meet to discuss "The Way of the Bear" by Anne Hillerman. Books are ordered through interlibrary loan. You do not need to purchase books. Just let the library staff know of your interest. They will place a hold on the title for you and you will receive… |
3 events,NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOUNDERS DAY “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” -John Muir NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” -Malorie Blackman
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You are welcome to bring your own camp chair, snacks, and beverage. The library will supply popcorn. |
1 event,NATIONAL DOG DAY “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring-it was peace.” -Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel |
1 event,WORLD LAKE DAY “A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” -Henry David Thoreau |
1 event,RAKSHA BANDHAN DAY “Raksha Bandhan is Sanskrit for “the bond of protection, obligation, or care.” This is a special day celebrated in the Hindu tradition that recognizes the special bond between brothers and sisters. Sisters of all ages tie a talisman or amulet, called the rakhi, around the wrists of their brothers. The sisters symbolically… |
1 event,INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS DAY “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” -John F. Kennedy |
1 event,NATIONAL BEACH DAY “To escape and sit quietly on the beach-that’s my idea of paradise.” -Emilia Wickstead |
2 events,NATIONAL ZOO AWARENESS DAY “Zoos remind us that we share the Earth with other creatures , each with their own needs and ways of being.” -Virginia McKenna
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Be sure to update the library with your final reading point count. The final Reading Medals will be awarded and fun prizes will be drawn for. |
1 event,NATIONAL COMIC BOOK DAY “Writing a comic book series, you’re so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.” -James Gunn |
1 event,WORLD COCONUT DAY “Coconuts teach us that shelter can protect sweetness, if we learn to open gently.” -Lina Patel |
1 event,NATIONAL SKYSCRAPER DAY “From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man-the function of his reasoning mind.” -Ayn Rand |
1 event,NATIONAL FOOD BANK DAY “Too many people are hungry not because there is a dearth of food. It is because there is a dearth of love and care in human hearts.” -Jaggi Vasudev |
1 event,NATIONAL HUMMINGBIRD DAY “You are Life passing through your body…You are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz |