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About Applegater. (Jacksonville, OR) 2008-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 2014)
Applegater Summer 2014 15 Williams branch is going strong Yard sale raises Adopt-an-Hour funds Our library’s yard sale event was a huge success! Following last year’s outpouring of support, we hope to reach fun-filled summer. Here are some of the our goal of $4,000 to keep the Williams branch of Josephine Community Libraries special programs that will be offered: • June 17, 2:30 - 3:30 pm: Live Bugs open the same extended hours for the next year. Herb Pharm is sponsoring with John Jackson • July 18, 2:30 - 5:30 pm: Create a Riot the first hour and the community is of Color with Wool, a felted wool project coming together to raise funds for the two and fiber study with Janis Mohr-Tipton. additional hours. Williams Friends of the Library is • July 29, 2 - 3 pm: Up, Up and Away in a Beautiful Balloon, a weather program happy to announce that we raised $2,336 at the yard sale! In July we will host another by our local National Weather Service. Adults are always welcome at event to raise the rest. We are over halfway programs as long as there is space left for there and want to thank those who helped the children. Bring children in often and make it possible. Thank you to everyone check with the librarians throughout the who donated items. We really appreciate summer for other self-directed activities the 40-plus volunteers who worked the day before setting up and pricing, worked and crafts that may be going on. We are looking for volunteers to help the sale, and cleaned up the day after. organize the book donations in the Book Thanks also goes to Forestfarm at Pacifica Palace. We would like to find someone who for donating lovely trees and shrubs. And is consistent and could come in on a regular to the volunteers who made food items— basis to sort the books and put them on the your treats were delicious and appreciated! Thank you to Pacifica Arts Guild for shelves in the storage shed until the book Top photo: Williams children enjoyed the having an egg hunt for the children as well sale in November. egg hunt by Pacifica Arts Guild. as games and crafts. Wacky Dog performed If you are interested in volunteering, Bottom photo: Margaret Foss (left) of please come to the library during open their fun music for little ones and Angela Green Clean Solutions and Crystal Pyren of hours and discuss this with the librarian. Hewitt delighted them with lovely face Luna Blue Farm donated raffle items. painting. Beautiful music was enjoyed Joan Peterson throughout the day thanks to Willie and Wi-Fi, and enjoying nature. 541-846-6988 the Poor Boys, Michelle McAfee, and • Summer Reading Program for kids of all ages begins in June. Omiza River. Our community is so fortunate Thirteen lucky people won raffle the world of insects and learn about bugs baskets stuffed with valuable items thanks to have a public library. As part of a and the environment, what they eat, how to Green Clean Solutions, Luna Blue Farm, countywide nonprofit library system, we they defend themselves, and how their Herb Pharm, Goodwin Creek Gardens, have access to so much more than we could camouflage works. This fun program is Dorothy Butz, Spit’n’Polish Antiques, and fit in our small building. We invite you to learn more about how your library works suitable for preschoolers through adults the Williams Grange. for you. Visit us online at josephinelibrary. Events and services from 1 – 3 pm. Create a riot of color with wool! • Preschool story time offered every org or stop in. The Williams branch is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays from On Thursday, July 31, Janis Mohr-Tipton Tuesday at 1:30 pm. will be presenting a program on fibers, • Free Wi-Fi hot spot is right here 24/7 1 – 5 pm. Danielle Schreck culminating with each participant creating to serve the Williams community. 541-846-7020 a felt ball or toy with wool fibers. She • Wi l l i a m s El e m e n t a r y S c h o o l / Williams Branch Library Manager will include a book talk showcasing great Community Garden behind the library dschreck@josephinelibrary.org science stories. Suitable for grades 4 – 12. offers a beautiful space for reading, using 2 - 5 pm, drop-in basis. Make-A-Robot. Thursday, August Voices of the Applegate 7. Fun for all ages as we wrap up the Voices of the Applegate, our community choir, performed its spring concerts Summer Reading Program by constructing on April 11 at the Old Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville, and on April 13 at a robot with cardboard boxes and tubes. the Applegate River Ranch House. Two African anthems were sung in memory of 2 - 5 pm, drop-in basis. Nelson Mandela and a sing-along was dedicated to Pete Seeger. Both men passed We hope to see you at the Ruch away earlier this year. Six folk ballads by Brahms and a medley of Beach Boy songs Library soon! were also included in the program. Thalia Truesdell Voices of the Applegate will begin rehearsals again in September of this year. 541-899-7438 Rehearsal dates will be noted in the next issue of the Applegater. Ruch Branch Library Manager For more information, call Joan Peterson at 541-846-6988. ttruesdell@jcls.org — Applegate Library — Our quarterly meeting of Friends of the Applegate Library (FOAL) was held in the library meeting room on April 8. It should be noted that FOAL meets four times a year—on the second Tuesday of January, April, July and October—usually at 5 pm in the meeting room. Our next two meetings this year will be on July 8 and October 7. We discussed the success of the hat sale, which earned FOAL over $600 last winter. Carol Hoon said that she would hold the sale again this year if we use only two specific patterns and ask the knitters to stick to those patterns because they sell so much better than the very unusual ones. Our new assistant, Michele La Fave, brings a variety of skills to the position. She will be leading science projects for young people throughout our summer program at the library. We plan to have our regular Summer Reading Program with “Live Bugs” as the theme. The reading program is meant to encourage children to keep up their reading skills while school is out. We will have guessing jars and other games for a — Ruch Library — Science is the theme for the 2014 Summer Reading Program, and we have some exciting projects planned. We will highlight a branch of science each week and have a science experience, related books, I Spy games, the popular Guessing Jars, and worksheets available. Registration for Summer Reading begins Saturday, June 14. We will begin with a bang on the first day of summer (Saturday, June 21) when a dozen local scientists will present “Scientists Among Us, Scientists Within Us.” This will be an opportunity to see what scientists do and for them to share an activity with the children, ranging from astronomy to zoology. The program will run from 1 – 4 pm on a drop-in basis. Please allow ample time to do all the activities and meet all the scientists. This is suitable for all ages, and adults are welcome to participate too. Live bugs will be here on Saturday, June 28, with John Jackson, the ever- popular Library Science Guy. Explore
