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
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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