Warren Connecticut

The popular Pajama Read Returns!

November 20th at 6:30 PM Ms. Amanda will be sharing stories. Wear your jammies and slippers, bring a blanket and join us for an evening of cozy stories. (Pre Kindergarten through 2nd grade.)

Mrs. Angevine from Angevine farm will be here on December 4th for a Lunch Bunch event. We will have our lunch after kindergarten class, share a story and create a holiday craft with real pine and pine cones. This will be right after class until about 12:30 PM. For Kindergartners.

Then on December 13th, Mrs. Angevine returns for an After School program for grades 1-3. This time we will learn about how other countries celebrate the holidays, winter and the new year. We will be making a craft for the holidays and celebrate the coming of winter.

Please sign up for the classes in advance. Sign up is available at the library and the school. If you need further information, call the library at 868-2195.

See you soon…..

This summer the library will be opening a few extra hours a week in order to have more consistent library hours. As of July 1 we will be opening every day at 10:00 am and close Thursday and Friday at 5:00 pm. Tuesday we will be open until 7 pm and Saturday until 1:00 pm.

The children’s summer reading program, “Get a Clue” kicks off June 26th and will continue through August 7th. Lots of fun things to do are planned from working in code to fingerprinting , microhiking at Warren Woods, creating Warren’s own letter box to a visit from a real detective. The summer fun will include a search for Ike LaRue the detective dog. All this while doing lots of great summer reading. Come and sign up at the library June 26th.

We also have gotten in some great reading for the summer. So take the time to read a book. It is cool comfort on a hot summer day!

July 14th promises to be an evening of musical events.

Several local, well known musicians will be playing for the Warren Public Library at Warren Woods, starting at 6 p.m.. Among the musicians will be Bruce Wheeler and Bill Seguin who have played previously at this event.

Bring a picnic basket and enjoy an evening of family entertainment. Refreshments will be on sale. Admission is $10.00 per person or $30.00 per family. The event will be rain or shine.

The Connecticut Department of Environment Protection has once again provided a 2007 Connecticut State Parks and Forests Day Pass.

This pass is used to cover the cost of parking at state parks and forests. the pass can also be used to cover the admission fee for two adults and four children at state historical sites and exhibit centers at Dinosaur, Fort Trumbull and Gillettte Castle State Parks.

The pass is available at the Warren Public library and comes with a guide book to the state parks of Connecticut.

Visit the DEP website www.ct.gov/dep for further information, or call the library 860-868-2195.

Warren Woods was a spectacular background to a wonderful evening of music and relaxation.

Thank you to all who put in talent, time and effort to a very successful event.

The evening started with the Offbeats: Evelyn Williams, Nora Hulton, Virginia Small, Dave Reynolds, Pat Fraley, Diane Kinkade and Fumio Taniguchi. Their drumbeats and percussion got the evening off to a lively start. Aaron Kaufman played his wonderfully, breezy, beautiful style. Bruce Wheeler played some old and new favorites with his most adept guitar playing. The evening sun set with Bill Lauf’s music, lyrics and voice dancing down on all the concert attendees. All played with the fantastic sound set up by Marty Carlson.

Kids, and dogs, and picnics and good weather - What a great evening. Thanks to all who attended, worked and performed to support the library.

The Summer Reading Program “Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales” is underway, with a great schedule of Tuesday(4:30 pm) events.

July 11th - Animal Origami Lessons with Karen Layman

July 18th - A visit with Meghan Tanner and her Farm Pets(live animals!)

July 25h - Goshen Story teller Lis Avnet shares Animal Tales

August 1 - Sharon Audubon Animal Menagerie - learn about live birds, reptiles and insects by comparing them.

August 8 - The Celebration of Summer Reading - Ice Cream, prizes and surprises.

As part of this program we will have an Ongoing Pet Photo Contest open to the entire town of Warren. Bring your funniest, most adorable, most beautiful, most unique pet photos to the library and share your favorite pet moments. We know that the residents of Warren have some unique and wonderful pets. All photos submitted will be posted on the bulletin board. Please submit the photo and label it with the pet’s name(and yours!) and address. Depending on the collection recieved there will be prizes(funniest, most unique, fuzziest, most feathers, etc.) This contest is open to the whole community. Share your paws, claws, scales and tails with our Summer Readers and the community.

Connecticut State Parks & Forest Day Pass Available at the library. A Connecticut State program entitled “No Child Left Inside” (http://www.nochildleftinside.org/) has made available to the library a pass that waives vehile entrance fees for one private passenger vehicle carrying up to 12 passengers or the per person fee to any Connecticut State Park or Forest that charges admission. This may be checked out for one week at the library. An accompanying book describes each park or forest in the state. Please check at the library desk.

The 2006 Connecticut Boating guide is also available at the library.

Don’t forget to pick up your summer reading at our ongoing book sale.

Happy summer reading!

Upcoming events:

Storyhour at 10:30 AM Fridays, now through June 30th. For our future readers. Come share a story and some fun.

Digital Camera Workshop for Everyone. Thursday, June 8th, 7 - 9 PM. Come and meet other digital enthusiasts. Learn the basics of your digital camera. Share photos and ideas on how to take pictures, store them and print them. Bring your camera and the instruction booklet and some samples of your photos.

Other Notes We are very pleased to announce that we now have a children’s librarian for Warren Public Library, Amanda McGrew. Amanda will be here a few hours a week and will facilitate programming as well as assist in developing the children’s library for our growing population of younger readers. Keep an eye out for announcements of programs and our Summer Reading Program dates and activities. We have created a questionaire so that parents and kids can tell us what programs they would like to share. We are looking forward to your response.