Volume 8 Issue 7 Changing the Way You Look At Libraries July 2008
The
Whistle Stop News
Published Monthly @ the North Baltimore Public Library
Noticed Any Changes???
The library announced recently that it had received a grant totaling more than $15,000 which would be used to purchase furniture and other display items for the children’s, teens, and adult sections. As new pieces have arrived they have been placed in their new homes. Have you noticed anything new? We will soon be having a celebration that will highlight these new improvements to your library.
Services Available to our patrons
We want to remind our patrons that your community library provides some services that hopefully help our patrons. We have a copier that will make black and white copies for a minimal fee per page. We also can fax or receive faxes. To send a fax it costs $3 for the first 5 pages and 20 cents for each additional page. We can receive faxes at a fee of 20 cents per page. We have an Ellison machine in the children’s department with an extensive collection of dies. Patrons must bring their own paper but the use of the machine is free. The librarians are willing to give a simple lesson to use this timesaving machine. It does more than just school decorations and letters! We receive many magazines and newspapers. You are free to sit in our periodicals section and read in air conditioned comfort. Magazines can be checked out for one week. A chess/checkers table is set up in the teens section (anybody can use it!) The computers in the adult and children’s side are available for free to our card holding patrons (children must have parental permission). The paintings and prints on display in the library can be checked out like a book for 90 days. The Ralph Wolfe Community Room that can be rented for reunions, showers, or other get-togethers for $35 per day. There is a $25 deposit which is returned after the key is returned. We try to serve our community in many ways.
Our
Summer Reading Grand Finale will feature PT Reptiles on July 9th.
Come and see the creepy crawly creatures Peter has to show us.
Early Closing
We are closing early on Wednesday, July 9th at 5:00 PM to prepare for our Summer Reading Grand Finale.
Be sure to be back here at 7:00 for fun, snacks and P.T. Reptiles.
We have had 173 children and 201 adults sign up so far for Summer reading. Thanks so much for coming out and taking part!
Meet the Librarian….
Our Library Director is Lesley McKinstry. She and her husband Roger live in Arlington. They have two sons, Mark and Gregg.
Lesley is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a Masters in Library Science.
She has been director of this library since July, 2000.
Roger is the Director of Pharmacy at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kenton.
Mark is Senior Systems Analyst with Chiquita International in Cincinnati.
Gregg is Executive Sous Chef at The Oceanaire Restaurant in Cincinnati.
She spends her spare time - when she finds any - working in her garden or traveling with Roger.
She has worked hard to bring about several changes to the library to make things more “user friendly” here for our patrons.
During these times of shrinking budgets and prices spiraling higher and higher she has worked hard to keep us within our budget while still maintaining a beautiful facility of over 15,000 sq. feet well stocked with the latest in printed books, magazines, DVDs and music CDs.
Did You Know?...
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
So if you are a blond-haired child, watch out!
teen summer read
Join us on Tuesday
, July 8 from 2-3 pm for a Teen Celebration. There will be games, snacks
& winners will be drawn for the Teen Grand Prizes!
A very special thank you to all the teens who volunteered at Summer Children’s programs! We appreciate all of your time! Volunteens are: Angie Bosak, Jeanella Brown, Emily Chapman, Olivia Hall, Bryce Heilman, Brock Lincoln, Jaymie Payne, Jennie Povenmire, Tessa Reinman, and Hannah Robach. Their names will go into a special drawing for prizes!
Sharpie Tie Dye Day June 10
Did You Know….
To survive the cold of winter months, many insects replace their body water with a chemical called glycerol, which acts as an "antifreeze" against the temperatures.
Quilt Show
The North Baltimore Public Library, along with the NB Crossroads Quilt Club will be hosting a Quilt Show during North Baltimore Summer Fest on Saturday, July 26 from 9 am – 4 pm. There is no charge. Interested people may bring quilt show items (limit of three items per person) to the Library on Friday, July 25 between 9 am and 6 pm. Items which are made by a friend or relative may be brought in for the show.
Registration forms, which are also available at the library, need to be filled out for each quilted item. Library hours are 9:00 am until 8:30 pm Monday through Thursday and 9:00 am until 5:00 pm on Friday and Saturday. Quilt show items are to be picked up from the Library on Saturday, July 26 between 4:30 and 5:00 pm.
The Library is in need of quilt racks to display quilted items. Racks may be brought to the library on Friday, July 25 between 9 am and 6 pm. Owners are asked to attach their name & telephone number to the racks. Racks may be picked up on Saturday, July 26 between 4:30 and 5:00 pm. Volunteers, who are comfortable climbing ladders, are needed on Friday July 25 from 4 – 6:30 pm to hang quilts and also on Saturday, July 26 from 4 – 5:00 pm to take down quilts. Interested persons may contact Esther Nagel at the library at 419-257-3621 or 419-669-2226.
THE PERFECT EXCUSE!
or
Why my items have not been returned to the library!
... cuz I left it in my truck and my truck was in an accident and got towed to the garage and I won't be able to get to the garage until this weekend.
...cuz my mother took it camping and lost it.
... cuz my dog ate it.
... cuz it flew out the car window on the Interstate and was runover by an 18 wheeler!
...cuz I gave it to someone else to return, and they lost it.
...cuz my brother (or sister) hid it on me.
...cuz it was taken by an alien up to their ship for research and never brought back.
Children’s News & Notes
July 2008
RIDIN’ THE
SUMMER
READING WAVE!
Toddler Busy Bees
for kids age 1-3 with an adult
Wednesday at 10:30 am
Final Summer Session - July 2
Preschool Busy Bees
for kids age 3 ½-6
Thursday at 10:30 am
Final Summer Session - July 3
Bug
Safari Trail Walk
with Wood Co. Park District
for kids entering grades 1-6
Wednesday, July 2
Meet at the Slippery Elm Trail @
1:30 pm (or at the library @ 1:15 & walk over with Miss Cheryl) – If rainy, we’ll meet inside the library.
FINALE CELEBRATION
Wednesday, July 9
from 6:30-8 pm
Everyone is invited! Meet Hamburglar from McDonald’s! Enjoy a Snow Cone! Discover all the Creepy, Crawly Creatures of PT Reptiles! Summer Reading Winners will be announced!
LIBRARY BINGO
Wednesdays July 16-August 13
from 1:30-2 or 7-7:30 pm
Prizes & fun for kids of all ages!
FUN BUS
Mondays through August 11
from 1-4 pm
Sponsored by YMCA & United Way of Greater Toledo
3rd Annual PARK FUN DAY
Will be held at the NB Village Park
On Saturday, July 12
From 1-3 pm
For kids of all ages!
Come for Arts & Crafts, Button the Clown, Nature Activities, Petting Zoo, Snacks, Sports & more!
Visit Miss Cheryl at the Library Puppet Station!
Everything is free!
Sponsored by the NB Community Coalition & area businesses and organizations!
Did You Know?...
If you eat your ice cream too fast, you’ll experience "Sphenopalatineganglioneuralgia," which is the medical term for "brain freeze."
Memorials
In Loving Memory Of…
The Yada Yada Prayer Group
And
The Memory Keeper: a Book of Friendship for Women
In Memory of: Joyce Carles
Given by: Bible Study Girls: Betty, Lotus, Helen, Cy & Pat
Every Day Deserves a Chance
In Memory of: Ralph Povenmire
Given by: Tony & Angie Swartz & Family
Guide to Pheasant Hunting
In Memory of: Dale Peterson
Given by: Tony & Angie Swartz & Family
Children’s book: Dulcie’s Taste of Magic
In Memory of: Mary Ann Kline
Given by: Allison Beaupry
Who Wants Candy?
In Memory of: Mary Eishen and her generous offer of cookies
Given by: the Zimmerman Family
Gardening When it Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
And
The Gardener’s Palette: A Year of Color in the Flower Garden
And
Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
In Memory of: Myrtle Richard
Given by: Denise Green, Barb Pundt, Shannon Dillon, Jan Paul, Linda Wells, Lori Allison, Beth Marshall
Costume Jewelry
In Memory of: Florence Lindquist
Given by: Jim & Brenda Harmon
Children’s book: The First Christmas Stocking
And
Children’s book: Me and My Family Tree
And
The Family at Home: Love, Life, Style
And
The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
In Memory of: Sharon G. Morrison
Given by: Alice & Maurice Hough
Children’s book: Baby Horses
In Memory of: Margaret Joyce Carles
Given by: North Baltimore High School Class of 1947
The Complete Book of Crochet Stitch Designs
In Memory of: Ada Bauman
Given by: North Baltimore Food Assistance Program
Book Chatters’
July Selection
The $64 Tomato
by William Alexander
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. When the author of this hilarious horticultural memoir
plants a large vegetable garden and a small orchard on his Hudson Valley
farmstead, he finds himself at odds with almost all creation. At the top of
the food chain are the landscaping contractors, always behind schedule,
frequently derelict, occasionally menacing. Then there are the herds of deer
that batter the electrified fence to get at Alexander's crop, and the
groundhog who simply squeezes between the wires, apparently savoring the
10,000-volt shocks. Most insidious are the armies of beetles, worms, maggots
and grubs that provoke Alexander, initially an organic-produce zealot, into
drenching his entire property with pesticides. He braves these trials, along
with hours of backbreaking labor and the eye-rolling of his wife and
children, for the succulence of homegrown food. He also manages to maintain
a sense of humor, riffing on everything from the ugliness of garden
ornaments to the politics of giving away vegetables to friends. Alexander's
slightly poisoned paradise manages to impart an existential lesson on the
interconnectedness of nature and the fine line between nurturing and
killing.
Did You Know?...
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the world’s food crop according to UN estimates.
Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. It takes most people about half a year.
The exoskeleton of a scorpion, made of chitin, reflects ultraviolet rays and will glow pink or green under a black light.
American Literature uiz
1. What is the name of the frightened schoolteacher in the American classic tale "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
A Dr. Peter Venkman
B Rip Van Winkle
C Ichabod Crane
D John H. Watson
2. What American folk hero fed his horse, Widowmaker, barbed wire and nitroglycerin?
A Paul Bunyan
B Johnny Appleseed
C Davy Crockett
D Pecos Bill
3. What poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins with the line "This is the forest primeval"?
A Evangeline
B The Courtship of Miles Standish
C The Song of Hiawatha
D Paul Revere's Ride
4. Who used lowercase letters in his poetry?
A robert frost
B e. e. cummings
C walt whitman
D bret harte
5. What is the name of the family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?
A The Joads
B The Ewings
C The Bradys
D The Collins
6. What is the name of ship in Moby Dick by Herman Melville?
A The Caine
B The Enterprise
C The Bounty
D The Pequod
7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is subtitled by what other name?
A Life Among the Slaves
B Life Among the Lowly
C Life Among the Downtrodden
D Life Among the Poor
8. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the short story, “The Great Stone Face” based on what?
A A severe school teacher.
B A statue in the state capitol.
C A natural rock formation on the side of a mountain.
D His father.
9. The mutiny in The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk involves a search for what?
A A key
B The person who burned up a Silex coffee pot
c A quart of strawberries
D All of the above.
10. Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the pen name of Mark Twain. “Mark Twain” is a river boat term meaning what?
A A Divided waterway
B Two fathoms
C Three fathoms
D A fork in the river
Did You Know?.... The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
Summer Birthday Club/ June & July 2008
June 2 Cloei Chapman – age 8
June 4 Alexis Rader – age 8
June 5 Adam Morrison – age 7
June 5 Hannah Robach – age 12
June 5 Kaelah Woods – age 10
June 6 Olivia Frost – age 10
June 6 Madelyn Instone – age 10
June 6 Kaley McCartney – age 11
June 6 Chase Naugle – age 8
June 10 Abigail North – age 6
June 11 Gage Carles – age 10
June 14 Harley Cole – age 8
June 13 Taylor Grilliot – age 11
June 15 Isabella Courtney – age 2
June 16 Caden Rayle – age 6
June 23 Bianka Robach – age 10
June 27 Chloe Lamb – age 5
June 29 Victoria Mendieta – age 11
June 30 Dylan Ankney – age 5
June 30 Blake LaBean – age 10
July 1 Jasmine Bretz – age 12
July 2 Joshua Clayton – age 3
July 3 Kennedy Bretz – age 7
July 6 Gracie Douglas – age 5
July 7 Bailey Boyer – age 9
July 7 Cheyenne Hernandez – age 11
July 9 Hannah Beard – age 12
July 9 Jaden Bucher – age 6
July 9 Seth Cole – age 6
July 10 Jordan Kimmel – age 6
July 11 Corrina Sue Adkins – age 6
July 11 Destynee Spieker – age 10
July 14 Katie Leady – age 10
July 14 Ahshawlee Lindquist – age 12
July 16 Jared Beckford – age 12
July 17 Garrett Boyer – age 12
July 17 Christian Richmond – age 11
July 20 Emily Stefanka – age 12
July 21 Victoria Ebersole – age 10
July 22 Mia McCartney –age 5
July 22 Hanna Rose – age 8
July 23 Isabella Ayers – age 6
July 23 Noah Cotterman – age 9
July 23 Kirsten Mason – age 6
July 25 Casey Mowery – age 4
July 26 Kialeigh Leady – age 7
July 28 Kalissa Carpenter – age 9
July 28 Cora Corman – age 8
July 31 Isaiah Diller – age 8
Editor’s Note: Due to an oversight, we left June’s birthdays out of the June Newsletter. We apologize to all who have June birthdays for the mistake.
Holidays to Remember
July is . . . . Baked Beans Month, Ice Cream Month, Tennis Month, Read An Almanac Month, and Anti-Boredom Month.
July 1 is . . . Build a Scarecrow Day
July 2 is . . . Canada Day
July 3 is . Air Conditioning Appreciation Day
July 4 is . . . Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day
July 5 is . . . Workaholics Day
July 6 is . . . Fried Chicken Day
July 7 is . . . Strawberry Sundae Day
July 8 is . . . Video Games Day
July 9 is . . . Sugar Cookie Day
July 10 is . . Communications Satellite Appreciation Day
July 11 is . . Cheer Up the Lonely Day
July 12 is . . Pecan Pie Day
July 13 is . . Embrace your Geekness Day
July 14 is . . Klutz Day (Gerald Ford’s birthday)
July 15 is . . Cow Appreciation Day
July 16 is . . Juggling Day
July 17 is . . Peach Ice Cream Day
July 18 is . . Caviar Day
July 19 is . . Get Out Of the Doghouse Day
July 20 is . . Ugly Truck Contest Day
July 21 is . . Tug-Of-War Tournament Day
July 22 is . . Ratcatcher's Day in Honor of the Pied Piper of Hamlin Day
July 23 is . . Vanilla Ice Cream Day
July 24 is . . Cousins Day
July 25 is . . Threading the Needle Day
July 26 is . . Aunts and Uncles Day
July 27 is . . Take Your Plants for a Walk Day
July 28 is . . Milk Chocolate Day
July 29 is . . Lasagna Day
July 30 is . . Cheesecake Day
July 31 is . . Mutt’s Day
Like to do a little star gazing?
If you go out any clear night between July 7th and 14th between midnight and 1 AM, you will be able to find the planet Jupiter. Look due south and it will next to the constellation Sagittarius.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, 11 times as wide as the earth.
Even a small telescope will enable you to see the 4 largest moons, which will look like small, white points of light.
This week it will be at its closest approach this year, coming to within 387 million miles.
July is named for the first Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar.
July’s birthstone is the ruby which is a red gemstone.
July’s flower is the Larkspur which symbolizes passionate attachment.
The name of the Full moon in July is the Buck Moon.
July is normally the month when the
new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety
fur.
It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, because of the frequency of the thunderstorms during this time.
On July 4th, the earth will be at its point farthest away from the sun. This called its Apogee, and we will be more than 94,515,000 miles away from the sun. This will be 3.1 million miles further away than on January 4th.
Signs of Summer
When the anthills are small, it will be a dry, hot summer.
When the birds fly close to the ground, it will rain soon.
If the earthworms leave their homes in the ground, a heavy rain is on the way.
If the cows and horses huddle in a field, a storm is on the way.
If a rooster crows at noon, the rains will come soon.
If a cow bellows three times in a row, a storm is not far behind.
Two Canadians talking about Summer:
- So, did you have a
good Summer, eh?
- Oh yes indeed. We had a picnic that afternoon!!!
“I
pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
From the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
Preamble to the
Constitution of the United States of America:
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
My, how we’ve grown!
On July 4th, 1776, there were about 2 ½ million people in the United States.
This year, the population is estimated to be over 304 million
Go to the Population clock website at: www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
In 2002, the US government estimated that we imported $17.3 million dollars worth of fireworks. This year, the estimated amount will be $217 million, of which $207 will be from China.
The US government estimates that we will import $4.7 million worth of American flags from foreign producers, of which $4.3 will be from China.
"You're a Grand Old Flag" was written by George M. Cohan for his 1906 stage musical George Washington, Jr. The original lyric for this song came from an encounter Cohan had with a Civil War veteran who fought at Gettysburg. The two men found themselves next to each other and Cohan noticed the vet held a carefully folded but ragged old flag. The man reportedly then turned to Cohan and said, "She's a grand old rag." Cohan thought it was a great line and originally named his tune "You're a Grand Old Rag."
So many groups and individuals objected to calling the flag a "rag," however, that he "gave 'em what they wanted" and switched words, renaming the song "You're a Grand Old Flag."
You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of
The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev'ry heart beats true
'neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
