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Between the Bookends * t " ............ ........ ùŸi'i'i'i'i'sïnâ'aii By Ann Krutsinger, Library Assistant Banks Public Library Now that the heat of the summer has passed, it is a good time to consider us ing a “Cultural Pass to Ad venture.” Anyone who has a Washington County Li brary card and is in good standing (no excessive overdues, lost books, etc.) can check out a pass for any one of the passes that the Banks Library possesses. And the list is of participants is im pressive: * CM2 - The Children's Museum ‘ Japanese Garden * Oregon Garden, located in Silverton OR * Pittock Mansion ‘ Portland Art Museum * Portland Classical Chinese Garden * Washington County Historical Museum * Oregon Historical Society If you haven’t registered with the library as a “Cultural Pass" user, call or come in and fill out the small form that is at the desk. After that, you can reserve any of the passes ahead of time! So when company comes from out of town, you can explore the many sights of Portland’s finest cul tural venues. If travel is in your future, the library is always buying new travel guides. We try to stock guides for the most common destinations for our pa trons. A new Frommer’s series that we’ve bought is “The Irreverent Guide” series, which The New York Times says is “...like being taken around by a savvy local.” Currently, the library has three guides in the series - Washington, D.C., Lon don, and San Francisco. How irreverent are they? The publisher, Michael Spring, has this to say: “What the ‘Irreverents’ give you is the low down, the inside story. They have nothing to sell but the truth, which includes a balance of good and bad. They praise, they trash, they weigh, and leave the final decisions up to you. No tourist board, no chamber of commerce will ever recommend them.” Banks Public Library: 111 Market Street Hours; Toes., Wed,, Thurs., 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Frl. and Sat. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Preschool Story Time: Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m., through July. Phone: (503)324-1382 Internet: www.WILInet.wccls.lib.or.us. to browse library resources or to reserve materials electronically. S a tu rd a y w o rk s h o p on art of w ritin g sh o rt sto ries Gina Ochsner, award-win ning author of The Necessary Grace to Fall, will conduct a writing workshop at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, October 4, in the St. Helens-Scappoose Chamber of Commerce building, 2194 Co lumbia Blvd., St. Helens. The cost for the 1.5-2 hour work shop will be $15.00. The workshop will be a hands-on instructive session on the art and craft of the short story, from idea generation and story inception to a discussion of story architecture and the in gredients necessary to such ar chitecture. The workshop will “Letters to the Front” contest for youth A writing contest, “Letters to the Front," is being sponsored by the Military Officers Associa tion of America through Veter ans Day on Nov. 11. Prizes will be awarded for the best letters written to an unspecified armed forces member who is present ly stationed overseas. The let ters should be 100 to 200 words in length and need to be appli cable to a service member re gardless of assignment location, branch of service or gender. A $3,000 scholarship will be awarded to the winning entries in two age groups - 12-and-un- der, and 12-to-18. A computer system valued at $3,000 will be awarded to the winner in the age 19-and-over category. En try forms can be downloaded from the website <www.letters- from-the-front.com>. be fun and informative. Participants need to bring writing instruments and paper or journal. A Question and An swer session will discuss sto ries, how to publish, etc. To reserve your spot, call St. Helens Book Shop, 503-397- 4917, or e-mail <bookshop@ colcenter.org>. If anyone has work that they would like Ochsner to critique, she will be available after the workshop. Extra fees will apply and a reservation is necessary. Notify St. Helens Book Shop, if interested, for details. W ashington C o u n ty Fair C om plex site of H allow een light sh o w event Finishing touches are being put in place for a new Hal loween event at the Washing ton County Fair Complex in Hillsboro that will light up the night. Bi-Mart Frite Lites, pre sented by Columbia Communi ty Bank, is a walk-through, ani mated light show featuring scenes of Halloween and the Fall season. The concept and design of the show comes from Lake Os wego-based Lights for All Sea sons, Inc., which is known for creating the larger-than-life ani mated light displays at the Win ter Wonderland light show each December at the Portland Inter national Raceway. Their latest concept is this Halloween/Fall light show, which is making its North American debut in Hills boro this year. Visitors will see a witch flying to the moon on her broom, bats flying through the sky, ghosts and goblins, and many other surprises. “Our goal is to give to the com munity a new, family-oriented event for Halloween that every body from youngsters on up to Senior Citizens can attend and enjoy,” said Don Hillman, Exec utive Director for the Washing ton County Fair Complex, which is producing the event. Ten percent of tickets sold will go to benefit Doernbecher Children’s Hospital on all nights except Sundays, when that same percentage of the ticket sales will go to the Bonnie L. 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