September Events
Marcia Anderson
Check it out @ your Library™
What’s Happening at the Grand Rapids Area Library
September 2, 2011
The Library will be closed September 3, 4 and 5 for the Labor Day weekend.
Regular Hours will resume on Tuesday, Sept 6:
M-Thurs 9 am – 8 pm, Friday 9 am -5 pm, Sat. 10 am-2 pm
Thanks for your contributions of books or volunteer time, or your purchases (or all three) for the annual used book sale. Over $8,000 was raised this year! All proceeds go to the Grand Rapids Area Library Foundation, and will be used for books and programs for the Library.
September is Library Card Sign up Month! Make sure everyone in your house has a card. Encourage your friends and neighbors to get a library card, and to use it. So much to see, so much to do @ your Library!
September Programs
Fall Planting for Future Beauty Thursday, September 15, 7 pm
Bonnie Hiniker of Sunshine Gardens aka “Bonnie the Plant Lady”
Bonnie will offer ideas for fall planting that will yield flowering beauty next spring.
http://sunshinegardens.tripod.com/ for more information
Great Decisions Discussion: Global Governance, Wednesday, September 21 at noon in the community room of the Library.
International cooperation subjects political leaders to an ongoing test: balancing national needs with a commitment to building a durable international order. How has an increasingly interconnected and shrinking world affected the viability of existing agreements and institutions? What economic, social, political and security concerns are currently on the agendas of intergovernmental bodies, and what is the future U.S. role? http://www.fpa.org
Family Movie Night Thursday, September 21, 6 pm
Join us for another in our popular Family Movie Night Series! We will be showing the movie Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension on the big screen! Bring dinner or a snack and join us!
Amie Klempnauer Miller September 29, 7 pm
Author of She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award for memoir and creative non-fiction.
As a Midwestern, station wagon-driving, stay-at-home mom – and as a nonbiological lesbian mother – Miller both defines and defies the norm. Part love story, part comedy, part quest, this candid and often humorous memoir is a cultural roadmap to what it means to become a parent.
Story times! Bring the little ones for a fun morning with stories, songs, rhymes, a snack and craft.
Saturdays at 10:30 with teachers from ECFE
Mondays 9:30 and 10:30. Book Times resume on September 19
Sneak Preview: Genealogy Workshops October 15 led by Lois Abromitis, chair of the Education Committee of the Minnesota Genealogical Society. Preregistration is required. More details available on the Library website calendar.
Find more upcoming events on our Event Calendar
A direct link to the Library’s online event calendar is here. A link to just the events for children is available by clicking on the “kids” button on the Library's web site
Go Fish!
We have fishing rods for loan thanks to the local DNR Fisheries Division, local merchants and the Grand Rapids Evening Rotary Club. Fishing rods and PFDs for children and adults can be used on the fishing pier or along the river or borrowed for guests
if you don’t have enough!
Construction Zone
Hawk Construction is continuing work on a small building on the west end of the Library grounds. The construction is mostly done and the painting will take place next week. It will house a heat exchange unit that will transfer waste heat from the water discharged by the paper mill to the Library’s heating system. Installation of the equipment will be in late September or early October. Watch the progress on our blog at www.grandrapidsarealibrary.blogspot.com
You can renew or request material online through our web site at www.grandrapids.lib.mn.us. You can also call the automated renewal line at 218-741-9085
For more details on any of the programs, go to the Library’s Web Site: www.grandrapids.lib.mn.us You can also find a calendar on the left side of the page. Click on “Calendar” for a link to the complete list of events at the library.
Marcia L. Anderson
Director
Grand Rapids Area Library
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
218-326-7640