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The INDEPENDENT, June 6, 2012
Between the Bookends
By Susan Cackler, Library Assistant
Banks Public Library
Construction work contin-
ues at the library. Work is tak-
ing slightly longer than expect-
ed due to some product de-
lays. No firm re-opening date
has been set, although we
hope to be open for a few
hours a day starting June 11.
The renovation will result in
an expansion of the library into
the existing community room
and construction of a new lobby. This expansion will
provide room for our ever-expanding library collection,
additional seating for patrons to read or access library
Wi-Fi with their laptops, and increased staff work
space.
The city of Banks is providing the funding for the
renovation portion of this two-phase project. The sec-
ond phase, construction of new space to allow for fu-
ture growth of the library and to reinstate a communi-
ty room for public meeting use, will be financed
through various funding sources, including grants and
donations. The Friends of the Library and a group of
interested citizens are spearheading the fundraising
campaign. To prepare for this effort, the Library Ex-
pansion Team is undergoing training provided through
a grant from the Ford Family Foundations.
Summer reading signups begin at all WCCLS li-
braries on June 1. Since the Banks branch will not yet
be open, we ask that our young readers be patient
and sign up in the following weeks when we are open.
Readers are welcome to start counting books as of
June 1. If readers do decide to sign up at a different
branch, please remember that you are only to partici-
pate at one library, so that would be the library you
would use for all drawings and the free book after
This Father’s Day
It’s time for a STIHL
meeting your goal. Programs for the Summer Reading the purchase of new furniture for our expanded space.
Program kick off in Banks on June 21, at 2:00 p.m.,
On the Shelf:
with BJ the Clown. He will entertain young and old
Our shelves and books are all in storage, but new
alike with his antics. Check WCCLS.org for a sched-
titles
will be ready to go when we reopen. Be sure to
ule of all of the summer reading programs.
come
by in June and see our new look and select
Our preschool storytime reader, Miss Cathy, is retir-
some
summer-time
reading.
ing next month. She will be with us for just one more
storytime on June 13. Join us at 10:15 a.m. to hear
Banks Public Library: 111 Market Street.
stories about oceans and give Miss Cathy your best
Hours: Mon., Fri., Sat., 11 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
wishes. After June 13, we will need to find a new sto-
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Join us for craft night Wednesday, June 13 from
Internet: www.wccls.org Browse library
6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the library. Enjoy some lively con-
resources, reserve or renew materials
versation while you work on your favorite craft. Come
online. Call for information.
and meet some new friends or visit with old ones while
using the library’s work space. You may
find knitters, scrapbookers, quilters and
maybe even a tatter or two. If you would
ans,” he said.
like to be on an e-mail reminder list for From page 8
healthiest
states
in
the
nation,
In the face of rising obesity
craft night, call the library with your name
and
to
do
that,
we
must
ad-
rates,
Oregon and the country
and e-mail.
dress
the
obesity
epidemic,”
are
addressing
the issue on
Thanks to all of the vendors and cus-
said
Oregon
Public
Health
Divi-
many
fronts.
As
the
state works
tomers who helped to make The Friends of
sion
Director
Mel
Kohn,
M.D.,
to
transform
the
health
system
the Banks Public Library Annual Plant,
M.P.H.
“The
best
way
to
do
this
for
Medicaid
for
better
health
Book and Art Sale a success.
across
the
population
is
to
put
and
lower
costs,
new
Coordi-
The Plant, Book and Art sale is a major
fundraising activity for the Friends of the healthy options, such as eating nated Care Organizations,
Banks Public Library. The Friends’ funds better, moving more and living (CCOs) will bring the ability to
are used by the library to purchase best- tobacco free, within reach, es- engage patients and communi-
sellers and current titles, CDs, DVDs, pecially where children are ties to address preventable
conditions such as obesity-re-
equipment and programs for the library concerned.”
For
example,
Kohn
said,
lated illnesses. For example,
throughout the year. The Friends fund a
communities
can
make
access
the Public Health Division will
weekly Story Time for preschool children,
to
physical
activity
opportuni-
connect CCOs to local partners
a summer reading program for early read-
ties
more
convenient
for
peo-
that can encourage employers
ers through teens, and provide books for
ple,
such
as
by
building
bicy-
to develop policies in the work-
the Banks Community Auction. The
cling
and
walking
paths,
and
place that help people to man-
Friends are also seeking donations to fund
improving healthful food op- age their weight. And Oregon’s
tions by making fruit and veg- Women, Infants, and Children
etables more readily available program continues its work to
in workplace cafeterias. “We maintain the state’s high
starting at
still have a long way to go, but breastfeeding rate, which re-
95
95
starting at
we’re working with education, duces risk for diabetes in chil-
health care and the private sec- dren and obesity in nursing
tor to improve access to mothers.
healthy options for all Oregoni-
See Obesity on page 11
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