The loooooong weekend!

Once again, we’re gearing up for a long weekend. If you need books, make sure you drop in on Saturday to stock up.  We’ll be closed Sunday and Monday. And don’t worry about trying to return books during those two days….we don’t put out the blue return box when we’re not open.  Keep everything until Tuesday, and we’ll make sure it gets checked in properly.

Library Hours:

Friday, May 17 …….OPEN 9:30am – 5:30pm

Saturday, May 18……OPEN 10:00am – 5:00pm

Sunday, May 19…….CLOSED

Monday, May 20……CLOSED

 

Have a safe and happy long weekend!

It was a Magic morning!

We made it to Friday!  And it was such a fun March Break! Yesterday, we visited the Carleton Place Arena where illusionist Chris Pilsworth dazzled us with his amazing magic!

We had LOTS of people in attendance and it was a great morning to be tucked inside a warm building. Good thing Chris was HILARIOUS!

He started everything off with a wonderful trick involving a young girl from the audience.  She was shy to begin with, but boy…did she turn out to be a great assistant!

She used some of her own magic skills to help him put a magic cape back together…..

And then…..it turned into a hat!

She was not impressed!

Later, Chris developed a problem when using a red whistle…..

One whistle….two whistles….three whistles….

And we all enjoyed his stylish dance moves! (Plus, where DID he get those orange pants??)

But it was the big finale that got us all laughing! Thanks to Wes in the back row (who was texting to his wife when Chris plucked him from the audience), and Shelly (who probably had no intentions of participating in a magic trick when she got up this morning)…we watched a funny skit play out that included a BIG jug of water, a rubber duck and a piece of paper. WOW!

Nobody got wet,  but everyone was amazed!  It was an exciting morning.

You can see more of the photos on our Facebook page later this week! If you didn’t come to this event, why not?  We do LOTS of fun things at the library all the time. Keep watching for more events coming soon!

 

CLAUDIA COUTU RADMORE – POETRY READING EVENT!

 On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 we invite you to the library for a poetry reading by Claudia Coutu Radmore, author of

‘a minute or two/without remembering.’

Join us for an inspiring and evocative evening as Claudia transports us back in time to 1672 when her first French ancestor sailed to New France!

Walk in their shoes, listen to their stories, and experience history!

A minute or two/without remembering takes us from Claudia’s seventh great grandmother, Marguerite de Laplace, one of the ‘daughters’ of the king of France, sent to New France to marry a fur trader; to the Cottu family’s relation to Louis Riel; through the ten year Iroquois threat when the family moved into Montreal for safety; ending with the heartbreaking Seven Years’ War, and its aftermath.

I have come to discover that Claudia is a multi-facetted and multi-talented woman. Born and raised in Montreal, Claudia has spent her life as an educator, an artist, and not least of all, a very accomplished wordsmith.

In 1984 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queens University, Kingston.  She has taught elementary school, high school, and adult education in Quebec and Ontario, and trained pre-school teachers as a CUSO volunteer in Vanuatu 1985-1988.

Claudia paints portraits and landscapes in oils, and writes poetry.  She is well known for her Japanese-form poems, as well as for her lyric poetry.  Claudia has edited the Haiku Canada Anthology for several years, is the owner/editor of Bondi Press, and is the president of KaDo, Ottawa’s haiku group.

Author of Your Hands Discover Me (2010), a minute or two/without remembering (2010), and Accidentals (2011), Claudia also edited letters written to her by Leonard Budgell from Labrador, who was a fur trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company, writing the forward to his book “Arctic Twilight” which was published in 2008.  Now retired, Claudia has made Carleton Place her home since 2004. As these are just some of the highlights of Claudia’s career, please visit her website at http://claudiacouturadmore.ca for more info.

So, please join us Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 7-9 p.m. as we listen to the voices of Claudia’s ancestors.   It’s free – just call 613-257-2702 to reserve your spot!

Everything Old is New Again

Another wonderful display by the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum has transformed our library space once again. Jennifer dropped by and changed out the case with fascinating “new” objects you just need to stop and look at!  We always find these presentations to be so relevant and amazing…it’s hard to believe some of these objects sit in boxes, carefully preserved until Jennifer has a chance to use them again!

If you haven’t been to the library lately, stop by and take a few minutes to look in the big glass case. And bring the kids! There are plenty of wonderful items to look at a discuss. A great way to get in a little local history until the museum opens again!

We’re Conferencing!

You might not even notice, but a few of the staff from the library will be away this week at the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference 2013! (Don’t worry, the library will be running as usual. Our staff is THAT good!)

While we’re there, we’ll be posting (hopefully) on Facebook, so please go to the Carleton Place Public Library Facebook page in order to see some of the fun.

Toronto will be bustling with librarians (it’s a sight to see, believe me!), all of us going to workshops, making new connections and gathering exciting ideas to bring back to our own libraries.  I can’t wait to see what we might discover this year.  And please, if everyone would take a moment to place an order with Mother Nature to ensure there won’t be a blizzard this year, it would be greatly appreciated!

See you next week!

Sock Monkeys at the Library

You can never go wrong with monkeys.  Or puppets. Combine the two and you have magic! This week, we made sock monkey puppets and had crazy hair day for storytime.

After being inside for days because of the cold, many of the kids were happy to get out and do something fun. Needless to say, it was a wee bit loud at the library!

But we all enjoyed ourselves and hopefully, everyone had fun with their new little friends at home.

Just a sample of all the fun things we do each week with our young friends.