Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Holiday and did not get sick.  I did, so I was not organized. Oh well, maybe next year!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

 

The library is open New Year's Eve

Fleming in Beamsville from 9am-5pm

Moses F. Rittenhouse Library from 10am - 5pm!

 

We are closed New Year's Day.

 

Open regular hours on Friday!

Fleming from 9am-5pm

Moses F. Rittenhouse Library from 1pm-5pm

 

We are getting new books in all the time! Check our new displays! If you have a book suggestion you can comment here or place a purchase request via the library's website  www.lincoln.library.on.ca under the heading Services.

 

There are still spaces in all our teen programs! Register Today.

Monday Afterschool Teen Clubs

   (grades 6 to 12)

Mondays, 3:30 pm, Fleming

$5 per club. Please register.

 

Snowman Craft Club

January 19 & 26

 

 

Let’s Celebrate Club

• February 2 – Mardi Gras

• February 9 – UnValentine’s Day

• February 23 – Chinese New Year

 

Drama/ Improv Club

• March 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30

 

 

 Have a Happy New Year!

 

 

 



 

 

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Winter Programs 2015

Monday Afterschool Teen Clubs

   (grades 6 to 12)

 

Mondays, 3:30 pm, Fleming

$5 per club. Please register.

 

Snowman Craft Club

January 19 & 26

 

  

 

 

 

 

Let’s Celebrate Club

• February 2 – Mardi Gras

• February 9 – UnValentine’s Day

• February 23 – Chinese New Year

 

Drama/ Improv Club

• March 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30

 

 

 

 

 

Drop In Thursdays

(grades 6 to 12)

Board games, craft corner & more

• January 22 & 29

• February 12, 19 & 26

• March 12 & 26

Free.

 

Teen Advisory Committee

 Teens between 11 and 18 can help the library AND earn community service hours by joining TAC!

     Suggest, plan and promote activities and more.

 First Thursday each month, 3:30 pm, Fleming

•  January 15 (one-time change to 3rd Thursday)

• February 5

• March 5

Free; drop in

 

 

 

 

  

 

Sorry due to low registration...

There will be no Teen Christmas Craft this year. Have a wonderful holiday!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Open House at the Fleming Library this Saturday December 13th, 2014

 

Everyone is welcome to the Lincoln Public Library's Christmas Open House on Saturday December 13th from 1 to 3pm.  Our Drama Club will be performing a Reader's Theater at 2:30pm.  Please support our talented group of teens.

If you can't make the Saturday performance on Monday December 15th at 5pm, our group will performing  for the last time. So don't miss out on some Christmas Fun. Hear about the Year Santa Got Mixed up and of course an old favorite the Polar Express.

There will be refreshments!  See you there!

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The books are due back December 23 today... Yikes

I am no longer organized. Last week I thought I was ahead of the game... this week... not so much.  I have all my Christmas stuff under my stairs. In order to get to it. I had to move furniture, a bookcase full,  I mean full... like overflowing.... with books. I was tired before I began.   I had lost interest by the time I yanked my fake tree out of the cubby hole, but still carried on until I found my Christmas balls. Yes the old fashioned ones that break if you breath on them. I remembered that I needed Christmas hooks to hang these balls to my tree. I no longer have any. So my tree is up and has no decorations and boxes everywhere.  Not good... 

I hope to be organized by Thursday. I will be off that day so just to remind everyone that  there will be no Teen Advisory Committee on Thursday December 6th, 2014.

Our Teen Drama Club is practising for Our Reader's Theater Performance on Monday December 17th at 5:00pm at the Fleming Library. Everyone is welcome to come and support our great actors!

There are still spaces left in the Christmas Craft Program on Thursday December 18th at 3:30pm. Please register today.

Speaking about today, do you know what today is? Today is the day that I will be planning for our Winter Programs. Yes! We will have more things for you to do at the library. I will be using the Teen Advisory Committee's ideas to bring you great programs and more. Thanks guys! :)

Well on that note. I have to go plan some stuff. So everyone get organized. LOL... Christmas is coming...

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Where is the time going... my theme for the blog :)

Well, I did it. I took down my Halloween Decorations on the weekend.  They looked a little sad poking out of the snow on Wednesday November 19.  They looked even worse after the snow melted on Saturday November 22 during the torrential rain storm.  The decorations had their last hurrah on Sunday morning. They all came down on Sunday afternoon.  Unfortunately most of my decorations will not be returning for another Halloween.

I just checked the date when the library books are due back... December 16.... Can you believe it.... About 3 weeks from now it will almost be Christmas!   Have you started your Christmas Shopping? You know what.... I have! Really... I have started my Christmas shopping! Me, who just took down my Halloween decorations! I am so impressed with myself. :) 

I am thinking since I am so far ahead that I may make some Christmas gifts or decorations to give away or keep for myself.

We have a lot of great Christmas Craft Books and even Christmas Cookbooks at the Lincoln Public Library. Why not bake or make something for that special someone instead of buying them a gift from the Dollar Store. I am sure your Aunt or Grandad would love it!

Here are a few suggestions that may make your Christmas a little easier!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

          

Come to the Library today and checkout our Christmas Holiday Collection.

 For those of you who like to make crafts in a workshop setting; we have our Christmas Jar Craft for grades 6-12. Come to the Fleming Library on Thursday December 18 from 3:30-4:30pm. Register today. The fee is only $2.00

 

   

 

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Do you need community service hours?

I am still taking volunteers for the Seniors Computer Training.  If you are thinking about it, you may want to see a few YouTube Clips on Cyber- Seniors http://cyberseniorsdocumentary.com/ Once you seen the clips and still want to help out ,call Margaret at 905-563-7014 ext 210 for more information. This is a rewarding experience.

  

Last Friday, I went to the Child Youth Blow Out in Toronto. It was a blast. I was so lucky, Kelley Armstrong  was there and she  talked about how to write a book. She is great. If you not have read any of her books. I really recommend them. Here is a list of some of her series.

The Darkest Power

1. The summoning

2. The awakening

3. The reckoning

Darkness Rising

1. The gathering

2. The calling

3. The rising

 Age of Legends
1. Sea of shadows

 Also at the Child Youth Blow Out  some of the other libraries in Ontario were showing us what programs they are running. Stayed tuned  in the  few next weeks for our Winter Program Sessions.

Are there any programs that you would like to see happen for teens at the Lincoln Public Library?

For example:

• Are you interested in New Age stuff like tarot cards?
• Would you like a Chicken Soup for the Soul type program?
• How about Steampunk?

Let me know what you would leave your house for to come to the library and participate in a program. You can call me at 905-563-7014 ext. 210 or email  daley@lincoln.library.on.ca  I am looking forward to hearing from you. 

The Christmas Season is coming fast. Some people already have their tree up and Christmas lights on. I still have my scarecrows and Halloween stuff outside my house. I am so behind. I better take it down soon or it will look like the Nightmare before Christmas; I love that movie.  It's about  Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept. The director of the film is Henry Selick and the writer is Tim Burton (based on: a story and characters by), Michael McDowell (adaptation),  We have  the DVD at the library. So if you are 16 and over you can take out DVDs on you own card.

Well on that note. Have a great day everyone. Now I have that song in my head. This is Halloween, Halloween.

Here is some information on the song "This is Halloween" from the Disney Wiki
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/This_is_Halloween

This is Halloween" is a song by composer Danny Elfman from the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is performed by the residents of the fictional "Halloween Town", which is the film's main setting. The song is featured in HalloWishes at both the Magic Kingdom and at Disneyland's Halloween Screams. In Calaway Park, it is featured in the haunted mansion. It is also used as the background music for the Halloween Town world in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, as well as the background music of the Disney INFINITY in the skydome of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The song is featured in the music video game Just Dance 3.

So if  you too want the song stuck in your head. Here are the lyrics.

Shadow:

Boys and girls of every age

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?                       

Siamese Shadow:

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

Pumpkin Patch Chorus:

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

Ghosts:

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene

Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright

It's our town, everybody scream

In this town of Halloween

Creature Under the Bed:

I am the one hiding under your bed

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

Creature Under the Stairs:

I am the one hiding under your stairs

Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

Corpse Chorus:

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Vampires:

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

Mayor:

In this town, don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Corpse Chorus:

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can

Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

Harlequin Demon, Werewolf & Melting Man:

Scream! This is Halloween

Red 'n' black, slimy green

Werewolf:

Aren't you scared?

Witches:

Well, that's just fine

Say it once, say it twice

Take a chance and roll the dice

Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Hanging Tree:

Everybody scream, everybody scream

Hanged Skeleton Men:

In our town of Halloween!

Clown:

I am the clown with the tear-away face

Here in a flash and gone without a trace

Invisible ghost:

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"

I am the wind blowing through your hair

Oogie Boogie Shadow:

I am the shadow on the moon at night

Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

Corpse Chorus:

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

Halloween! Halloween!

Child Corpse Trio:

Tender lumplings everywhere

Life's no fun without a good scare

Parent Corpses:

That's our job, but we're not mean

In our town of Halloween

Corpse Chorus:

In this town

Mayor:

Don't we love it now?

Corpse Chorus:

Everyone's waiting for the next surprise

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back

And scream like a banshee

Make you jump out of your skin

This is Halloween, everyone scream

Won't ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man Jack is King of the Pumpkin patch

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now

Everyone:

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

Child Corpse Trio:

In this town we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

Everyone:

La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat

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Remembrance Day 2014

 

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
 

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 

 

 

 

 

 

             We will never forget the horrors of War

DULCE ET DECORUM EST
by  Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.-- Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.In all my dreams before my helpless sight He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Wilfred Owen The Latin title of this poem means: "Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country." (From Horace, Odes, III. ii. 13)

 

What days for programs work best for you?

Hi Everyone,  :)

I am having trouble when is  the best  day and time to run teen programs at the library. For October, Mondays seemed  to work.  But for November, Mondays don't work. If you could please leave a comment and to let me know the dates and times that are best for you or email me at daley@lincoln.library.on.ca.

Also let me know what programs you would like to see run at the library. I would really appreciate any suggestions. You can even call me with your suggestions at 905-563-7014 ext. 210.

 

Thanks

 

Margaret

 

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It's all about the Drama

We will be running a Drama Club that will be mostly games and other fun techniques.

 

Therefore November & December  is Drama Club Months.

 

 

This game oriented program introduces basic drama concepts and more.

Mondays

 

 

Nov. 10 - Fun Drama Games – Let’s get to know each other

 

 

Nov 17– Tableaux Games

 

Nov 24 – Improv Games

 

 

Dec 1- Creating Characters

 

 

Dec 8- Reader’s Theater Practice

 

 

Dec 15 Reader’s Theater Practice and Performance from 5- 5:30  for parents and guardians.

 

Sign up today. The fee for all 7 sessions is $5.00.

Halloween is in 3 more days!!!! What are you going to be????

 

 I decided this year I will be a pirate. I have my dress. Yep, I will be wearing a dress and pirate boots.  So you better watch out if you bring back late books I will make you walk the plank! Just joking... or am I????

 

 

We just wrapped up our Undead Club. Sorry I don't have pics cause I always forget to take pics. It's so sad. We had ghost stories and looked at the different types of ghosts and hauntings. We held an  old fashioned Halloween party with bobbing for apples and pumpkin carving, it was a lot of fun. Then we had a zombie preparedness program. We made bloody t-shirts,  fake wounds and blood to disguise ourselves as Zombies and more.  Thanks to all the teens that participated. Have a great Halloween!

 

 

Get lots of candy! Trick or Treat!

 

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Its All About the Books

I don't know if you have seen this YouTube yet created by the Librarians at the Nashville Public Library!  Check it out it is good!

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pduszh4ADTU

 

Nashville Public Library team celebrates library cards in this adaptation of Meghan Trainor’s performance of “All About That Bass,” as seen on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. We had a little bit of fun showcasing how easily Nashvillians can borrow, download and stream books, music and movies.

At the Lincoln Public Library you can also borrow, download books and  music. Go the Lincoln Public Library's Website  www.liincoln.library.on.ca  . On the  home page left click on Audio & eBooks to access Overdrive. To download, 3 free songs a week go to Databases and left click on Freegal.

 

 

Ontario Public Library Contest

Ontario Public Library Week

October 19-25, 2014

October is designated as Canadian Library Month. Throughout Canada, the month raises public awareness of the valuable role that libraries play in the everyday lives of Canadians.

The theme for Canadian Library Month and Ontario Public Library Week 2014 is “Libraries Inspire”

OPLA "What inspires you @ Your Library" Video Contest for Teens

OPLA wants to know what inspires you @ Your Library! Your video will be used to help promote public libraries in Ontario. Enter this video contest and you could win an iPad, not to mention movie fame!

Rules

• the contest is open to teens
• video length 1 - 2 minutes (maximum)
• signed media release forms for participants required (these might be covered by your Library's release forms)
• post your video (or a link to your video) on the Ontario Library Association Facebook page with the hashtag #OPLW
• submissions must have cleared copyright on any third party content
• the contest will be open from September 2014 until the beginning of Ontario Public Library Week (October 19, 2014)

Prizes

• four iPads will be awarded to the:
  • two best videos as chosen by OPLA Council
  • two videos with the most "likes" on Facebook
• winners will be contacted via private message to the Facebook account that posts the video
• prizes will be awarded to Libraries if the videos are submitted by a group associated with the Library, or to individuals if submitted by an individual

Teen Advisory Committe this Thursday!

Teens between 11 to 18 can help the library and earn community service hours by joining the Teen Advisory Meeting! TAC for short!

Suggest, plan and promote activities and more!

We meet the first Thursday of the month at the Fleming Library. Our meetings run from 3:30-4:30pm.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, Margaret  905-563-7014 or daley@lincoln.library.on.ca

Our thoughts are with the Keunen Family

Sometimes it is hard to describe one's feelings when there is tragedy. Our thoughts are with Keunen Family. It is shock, followed by great sadness when a young life is lost. All I can say is that I am sorry and Adam, you will always be remembered.

It's Tuesday.... Halloween is coming and so is the Undead Club

What a Great Day!

 Guess what I saw on my way to work this morning? A rabbit... no... a moose.... no... one more guess? Pumpkins.... you got it right..... The Farmers have their  pumpkins out and ready for Thanksgiving.... But I am thinking HALLOWEEN!

Halloween is a great holiday. I guess you can call it a holiday. You get dressed up, give out or get candy. Everyone is in a good mood. You can't get better than that. No stress, just pure sugar rushes and cool costumes.  Then there are the decorations. The so cool decorations.  The leaves, the skeletons, witches and all things creepy.

All things creepy.....ghosts are definitely creepy.  On Saturday, the Lincoln Public Library was lucky to have one last paranormal investigation conducted by the Niagara Paranormal Society at the old Fleming Library on 4996 Beam Street.  It was creepy and interesting at the same time. Carol from the Paranormal Society explained and demonstrated how to use ghost hunting equipment and so much more.  At a later date, she and her team will be conducting a  presentation at the new library on their findings and more. So don't miss out. Keep checking the LPL Teen blog for more details.

If you can't wait for the presentation and still want to find out about ghosts and maybe even hear some spooky stories by our "indoor campfire", sign up for the Undead Club. On  Monday October 6th at the new Fleming Library 5020 Serena Drive is the day for all things ghostly.

Now back to the pumpkins. Yes pumpkins... We are going to have an old fashioned Halloween Party with games and of course pumpkin carving!!! So start thinking of some designs today. The Party takes place on Monday October 20th.

Going back to creepy, we will be doing an All things Zombie workshop. We will be focusing on how to make homemade blood. Yep.... blood and I hate blood. It makes me feel sick. Why you may ask we are making blood and scabs and other gross things? The reason is cause you guys wanted to know how. So we will as I cringe through the whole process and show you how to make these disgusting things together and we will have a great time doing it! LOL So circle  Monday October 27th on your calendar.

 The inspiration for this blog came from me seeing pumpkins today.  I love Halloween and I can't wait.
Sign up today for the Undead Club and prepare for the big day. The Club is on Mondays October 6, 20 and 27 from 3:30-4:40. The material fee for the club is $5.00. Don't miss out. Space is limited.

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