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North Douglas Herald Lower Umpqua Library District (LULD) Continues to Expand Coos Bay Public Library donated shelves, which will provide additional space for LULD’s collection. If there are any titles that you would like the library to consider adding (books, DVDs, CDs, magazines etc.) then please call, visit, or email LULD to make your suggestions. We cannot guarantee that LULD will add any particular item due to such issues as shelf space and budgetary concerns, but the library does purchase many items based on patron feedback. If LULD is unable to purchase a specific item that you would like to borrow then staff may be able to request it for you from another library system elsewhere in the country, or even internationally. Such interlibrary loan requests cost patrons $5.00 each, which covers the cost of postage. LULD will soon be adding books to its collection that were donated by the Library of Congress as part of its Surplus Books Program. Due to increased public interest, LULD added a new page to its website that focuses on online genealogical (family history) research. Go to www.luld.org/genealogy for a list of free genealogy websites. The library has also been adding more books to its collection about this topic, which are available for borrowing. Please call or visit the library if you would like additional information or help with your research or to borrow any of these materials. LULD has upcoming events throughout the month of June. These include: • Pre-school Storytime will be held at LULD every Wednesday at 11 am • Knit and Crochet Group will meet at LULD every Wednesday at 4 pm • A planetarium experience at the Reedsport Community Center (451 Winchester Ave), which will be held in cooperation between LULD, Southwestern Oregon Community College and the Reedsport Community Center. It will be held on June 1 st from 9 am until 12 pm. • LULD’s Summer Reading Program will begin on June 15 th and continue until August 21 st . Children and teenagers are invited to read during the summer for the chance to win prizes. • Father’s Day outdoor book sale, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, will be held in the LULD parking lot from 10 am until 4 pm on June 15th • A presentation by Cindy Farber at LULD on dealing with garden predators and disease and summertime succession planting at 10 am on June 15 th • The kick-off party and parking lot barbecue for Summer Reading Program participants will be held at LULD from 11 am to 1pm on June 19 th In July, LULD will host additional events such as Smokey the Bear and the Reedsport Fire Department. The July issue will contain the dates and times of these events. The library currently has job openings for which it is accepting applications: teen intern and substitute library assistant. Both positions are paid and are open until filled. Position descriptions and application forms can be found at www.luld.org/employment. Alex Kuestner Library Director/District Manager Lower Umpqua Library District 395 Winchester Ave Reedsport, Oregon 97467 (541) 271-3500 www.luld.org June 2024 Letters from the Librarian “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” - Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy- Tacy and Tib When you think of “sum- mer reading,” do you conjure a vision of a sandy beach, a fat paperback, and an umbrella drink? Or pos- sibly a backyard hammock and an audiobook? For some of us, summer reading means a list of books recommended by a teacher or required for profes- sional development. For others, summer reading is all about leisure time or an escape to a page-turning adventure. Whatever “summer reading” means to you, I hope you’ll make the library a part of your season’s plans. The library will be joining the rest of the state in a summer reading theme of “Read, Renew, Repeat.” Shadows Along the Creek (Paperback) by Rusty L Savage 2.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon $14.84 Judson Ringo has not been dealt an easy hand in life. After loos- ing his father, and nine months later his mother, he is left on his own at seventeen in rural 1890s Kentucky. He goes to Tennessee to live with his uncle, but instead of being treated like family, he is a slave. Judson faces each challenge as it comes, thinking only to survive. After four years in bondage, John Harrington dies and Judson is set free. He returns to his father’s farm on a cold winter night, finds it in ruins, is suspected of murder, and begins life all over, finding strength in the midst of struggle and love in remnants of buried dreams. Martha Jane gets her buggy stuck in the mud on a cold winter night. She tries everything, but cannot get the buggy back on the road. She is all but ready to leave the buggy, when a horse and rider approaches. The hopes and dreams Martha Jane believed long dead come to life once more. NOW A VAILABLE ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/9NlFOYc This summer’s activities for children, teens, and adults will feature crafts, snacks, free books, swim passes and other fun prizes. Come in, “check out” some of the fun programs we have planned, and take some books along with you when you leave. Can’t make it in? We’d be so glad to deliver! Call us at 541-836-2648 during open hours or send us an email at info@ndld.org and we will help you reserve books and other materials over the phone or through the online catalog, and then we’ll deliver to your door anywhere in the district on the first Wednesday of each month. Our hours this summer are Tuesdays and Thurs- days from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesdays from noon to 7 p.m.; and Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Miriam Sisson, Director, Mildred Whipple Library North Douglas Library District ndld.org 541-836-2648 The Highest Hill (Paperback ) by Rusty L Savage $13.66 This is the story of two young brothers, Bobby and Jackie Ringo, who struggle to overcome the hardships of an unpropitious home environment in rural west- ern Kentucky in the 1940s and 1950s. Their lives and futures are fraught with pit- falls and roadblocks, both debilitating and deadly. The reader will feel the dreams, aspirations and wonder of the youngest whilst living and growing up in very different time than our own. The boys, left on their own much of the time cope with a drinking and abusive father, barely escape being sent to reform school, struggle to stay in school, graduate and overcome their circumstance and to reach higher and higher to achieve a better life as kids and for their futures. Follow Bobby and Jackie through the early 1950s, starting at ages’ nine and twelve, through their high school years to a dramatic climax of personal and physical struggle with the “Ringo Streak” and its repercussions. If they survive, it’ll be to eventually realize the true lessons of the Highest Hill which continues to reveal its real measure and meaning. NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/jivKij6 Page 3 Yoncalla Public Library Notes Summer is right around the corner and the Yoncalla Public Library’s Summer Reading program is set to start on Wednesday, June 12 th . This is a K-12 program that will run every Wednesday through August 7 th . Activities will include journal design, camel rides, a birthday party for Smokey the Bear, and so much more. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for all the details. We’ve added two new programs to our monthly schedule: Teen and Young Adult Book Club which will be the last Wednesday of every month from 2-4pm and Kindle Club every other Thursday from 6-7pm. Coffee Club, which is every second Saturday of the month from 10-12 is still going strong and we also have STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) learning activities for children and teens every second Thursday of the month from 4-7pm. Our last STEAM activity will be July 11 th . Follow us on Facebook for more information and to see what we’re up to every week. Our hours are M 1-5, W 10-4, Th 4-7, and Sat 10-2. See you at the library! A Place to (Paperback) Die by Rusty L Savage 4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon $15.66 Johnny Ringo’s brother was dead. “I’ll get ‘em Frank, I swear to you I’ll get them”. What a place to die, there on the frozen banks of the Rough Creek. The Law wasn’t doing anything about it and Johnny had decided he would. It was 1938 and the county was full of Bootleggers. One of them ‘Shiners” did it. Johnny was gonna find out who and he knew how to do it. Trouble is there are a lot of prime suspects and a good deal of danger from any one of them. Johnny has a plan, if he can keep out of sight of the Sheriff long enough and keep from getting killed himself. He knows the woods and hills and he will find out what he needs to know. NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/2cOZfG2 Rusty’s Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B014RNIWNC
