Children's Health Fun Fair & other programs

Another Children's Healthy Fun Fair is on the records. What a successful event it was with over 600 people coming through our doors in the four-hour period. Hats off to all the people who gave of their time to help out at the fair. If those of you who attended know of something else you would like to see offered, we are always open to suggestions. Stop by the library, or email us with your ideas to make our fair even better and mark your calendars for March 3, 2012.

Spring forward...Hope everyone remembers the changing of the clocks. This is when an hour of sleep is 'snatched' away, leaving many of us with what surely feels like jet lag! Though daylight time was first begun in the United States in 1918, it didn't achieve much popularity and eventually states were allowed to decide for themselves about its observance. As time went on, every state in the union implemented this practice, with the exception of Arizona and Hawaii. The requirement of date to commence and date to cease is uniform. Those dates are currently further apart from the typical first Sunday in April start to last Sunday of October end that the United States used to from 1987 to 2006. This year we will have daylight savings time until Sunday, November 6. The time is always adjusted at 2 a.m. local time.

Another change the week is bringing for library patrons is a glimpse of our new shelving in the adult fiction area. The library reopened following five days of closure for transferring of books from the old shelving, muscling those shelves out of the way and replacing them with the new ones, then reshelving the books, in proper order, of course! Even if you're not a fan of adult fiction, stop by and take a look at how nice the shelving looks.

The arrival of spring break drives home the point that the school year is fast drawing to a close. That means that the second graders will be making their annual spring pilgrimage to the library to learn how to find their way around and get the information they will be needing as they move through the school years. That also means the library will be gearing up for our summer reading program. If your children have never participated, please consider taking part in One World, Many Stories Summer Reading 2011, with sign up the week of May 23 and the five-week program beginning on May 31. We are already working to line up some interesting presenters to share information about their countries of origin at our special programs. Our crafts for the various age groups will reflect items from other countries as well. This is a no-pressure program. Your child may take part in as little or as much as he/she chooses. Information will come home from school with your student some time in May; but if you have any questions at all, give us a call.

A few things coming up in the children's library include our March After School Club which will feature Amelia Bedelia. This program is a fun time for kids kindergarten through the fourth grade, starting at 4 p.m. on the 29th. Most kids really enjoy the antics of Amelia Bedelia as she uses her logic to manage the Rogers household. Story time parents, please note that the next session of story time will be Thursday, March 31. See you at Memorial Library!