Earth Nite

Date: 
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Contact: 
Contact: Help Desk @ 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen
Children

Join us for a family-friendly celebration of our home - the Earth. Activities include: "Trash" origami, making a bird house from a recycled milk container, creating a book sculpture from old books, sampling a veggie pizza, viewing short films, learning energy-saving tips from Sustainable Warwick, and making a container vegetable garden with Gar Wang. Special musical guests Tony Vee and Matt Price will provide entertainment. The first fifty visitors will receive a free seedling tree to plant at home.

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Relishing Retirement with Sally Pellegrini

Date: 
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Contact: 
Contact: Help Desk @ 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult

Retirement, that next phase of life, offers so many possibilites and challenges. Come and discuss the numerous aspects of this life change with recent retiree, Sally Pellegrini, and fellow community members during a relaxed and encouraging monthly get-together.

Programmer/Name Contact: 
Sally Pellegrini
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Relishing Retirement with Sally Pellegrini

Date: 
Tue, 04/16/2013 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Contact: 
Contact: Help Desk @ 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult

Retirement, that next phase of life, offers so many possibilites and challenges. Come and discuss the numerous aspects of this life change with recent retiree, Sally Pellegrini, and fellow community members during a relaxed and encouraging monthly get-together.

Programmer/Name Contact: 
Sally Pellegrini
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Book Discussion - "Call the Midwife"

Date: 
Thu, 04/11/2013 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Contact: 
Contact: Help Desk @ 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen

In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women"from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side.
Join Allison Petrus-Wilkins for a discussion of Jennifer Worth's best-selling memoir.

Programmer/Name Contact: 
LA
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Red Cross Emergency Preparation

Date: 
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Contact: 
Contact: Help Desk @ 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen
Children

"Be Red Cross Ready" is a Red Cross preparedness presentation that teaches communities how to Get a Kit, Make a Plan, and Stay Informed before and during a disaster such as a snow storm, flood, fire, and other hazards, strikes our region. The presentation is about half an hour long, and it covers topics such as sheltering in place, evacuation, emergency kit preparation, setting up a meeting place, and many more.

Programmer/Name Contact: 
Olga Wallace (845) 673-5693 olga.wallace@redcross.org
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Library Tax Levy Vote

Date: 
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 9:00am to 9:00pm
Contact: 
Rosemary Cooper at rcooper@rcls.org or at 986-1047, ext. 6
Age Group: 
Adult

Registered voters who are residents of the Warwick Valley Central School District are eligible to vote on the Library's 2013/2014 tax levy proposal. Voting takes place in the Community Room on the lower level.



      
      
  
  

Emotional Freedom Techniques

Date: 
Thu, 06/06/2013 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Contact: 
Contact: Help Desk @ 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult

Debra Hollinrake will demonstrate easy, hands-on techniques to reduce stress. Learn how to release negative emotions to think clearly and excel at life's pursuits.

Programmer/Name Contact: 
Debra Hollinrake dhollinrake@intentionalpower.net 570.832.4877
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The Deep: A Multi-Media Celebration of Whales and Dolphins with Mary Makofske

Date: 
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Contact: 
Contact: Help Desk @ 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen

Combining the spirit of Earth Day and National Poetry Month, poet Mary Makofske will read here thirteen part poem, "An Inward Bruise" accompanied by whale song, music and photos of these magnificent creatures. "An Inward Bruise" won the Lullwater Review Poetry Prize and appears in Traction (Ashland Poetry Press), Makofske's latest book and winner of the Richard Snyder Prize.

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