Ballston Reader
What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, July 6th, 2018
Summer Reading!
Sign In Page
https://toblibrary.beanstack.org/users/sign_in
Sign up for Summer Reading Youth Programs started June 18th, and
logging minutes started, June 22nd!
Click the link below if you have no registered for Summer Reading yet!
Week 3
Registration for Youth programs during weeks 4-6 (July 16—August 3) will begin on Monday July 9. Sign up can be done online through the Library’s website or by calling the Library at 518-399-8174.
Drop-In Technology/Computer Help
Bring your own devices, or use the Library computers, and get your questions answered. *Drop-in
Monday, July 9th at 1:00pm
Saving Slater
Saving Slater: The Story of SLATER, and how she became the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum. Learn the history of Destroyer Escorts, SLATER's involvement in WWII, service in the Greek Navy, and restoration into a world-class museum. - *Registration
Monday, July 9th at 7:00pm
Baby Bookworms is starting another session! - *Registration
Tuesdays or Fridays at 9:30am
Music Medley will continue through the summer! *Drop-in.
Tuesdays at 10:30am
The Magic of Minerals and Magma
Tuesday, July 10th at 4:00pm - *Waiting List
Table Top Game Night
Tuesday, July 10th at 6:00pm - *Registration (Rescheduled from 7/12)
Chapter Chat Book Club
Tuesday, July 10th at 7:00pm - *Registration
Price Chopper Kids Cooking Club - *Waiting List all sessions
3 Sessions - 1:00pm, 2:00pm & 3:00pm
Yoga with Judy Rightmyer - *Registration (You are signing up for both dates)
Wednesday, July 11th& 18th at 7:00pm
Read to Leela - *Drop-in
Thursday, July 12th at 10:00am
Family Movie Morning - Sing - *Drop In
Thursday, July 12th at 10:30am
Storytime in the Park at Jenkins Park - *Drop-in (Weather dependent)
Thursday, July 12th at 4:00pm
Exploring Earthquakes - *Registration
Thursday, July 12th at 4:00pm
Family Story Time - Drop-in
Friday, July 13th at 10:30am
The Library offers summer programs and events for all ages. Program Registration for weeks 1—3 (June 22-July 14) began June 18, registration for weeks 4-6 (July 16—August 3) will begin on July 9. Sign up can be done online through the Library’s website or by calling the Library at 518-399-8174.
All are free and open to the public but due to age or space restrictions some will require registration. All participants must enroll in the Summer Reading Program but may attend as many programs as they wish. Please call if you cannot attend a program you registered for. If you are a no call/no show for a registration program you will not be able to register for upcoming summer programs.
Yoga with Judy Rightmyer
Two different sessions will be offered!
Wednesday, July 11th & July 18th @ 7:00PM
AND/OR
Monday, August 6th, 13th, & 20th @ 7:00PM
Drop-In Technology/ Computer Help
Sarah from Rensselaer County Cornell Cooperative Extension will help you with all of your technology questions! Bring your own device, or use ours.
Drop in, no registration.
Wednesday, July 9th from 1:00 - 3:00pm
Mom's Meet Up @ the Library
July's meeting will include a presentation from The Wonder Room about Learning through Play!
Monday Morning -
August 6th @ 10:00am
Check Out These Books!
Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce
"Emmeline Lake has big dreams. She’s already doing what she can to support the war effort as a volunteer telephone operator for the Auxiliary Fire Service. She writes frequent letters to keep her boyfriend up to date and in high spirits while he’s fighting Hitler and the Nazis. But she wants to do even more: Emmy dreams of becoming a war correspondent.
She’s so busy dreaming, in fact, that she doesn’t pay attention during her interview for a job she spotted in The London Evening Chronicle. Emmy daydreams of seeing her byline under important reports from the front. Instead, she’s hired as a typist for another publication: Woman’s Friend. Emmy will spend her days typing up tough-love advice from Mrs. Henrietta Bird, author of the column “Henrietta Helps.”" - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
The Poisoned City by Anna Clark
Make no mistake: The water crisis that has plagued the people of Flint, Michigan, is not the result of a single decision. Rather, it is the disastrous culmination of state government dysfunction, decades of enforced housing segregation and the meteoric rise and fall of the American automobile industry.
In April of 2014, Flint residents discovered that the water pouring from their faucets was not only undrinkable but also downright toxic. Due to a recent switch in the city’s water supply, Flint’s lead pipes corroded. Initial reports from horrified Flint citizens were largely ignored. By the time the state of Michigan admitted to its mistake, 12 people had died and Flint’s children had been exposed to irrevocable harm. Anna Clark, a journalist and regular contributor to the Detroit Free Press, recounts the tangled series of events that eventually led to the city’s poisoned water supply in The Poisoned City. - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Sadness is relative, and this is the overwhelming theme in Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation. In the year 2000, a young woman has everything one might need to be happy. A recent Columbia graduate in her 20s, enviably thin and beautiful even at her worst, she lives in New York’s Upper East Side with enough inheritance to last a long time. But there is a hole in her heart that her youth, health and wealth can’t fill, and her answer to fix this mishap is to literally sleep it off.
With the help of a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs, prescribed by the world’s worst psychiatrist, the young heroine sinks into a type of hibernation, surfacing only to take us on a journey of her sad childhood and even more despairing adulthood. Each revelation supposedly unloads the baggage for good and cleans the slate for when the hibernation ends. - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review articcle
Board of Trustees Monthly Board Meeting
Wednesday, July 25th at 7:00pm
Community Display Spaces
Calling all artists & collectors!
Town of Ballston Community Library
Email: web.toblibrary@gmail.com
Website: toblibrary.sals.edu
Location: 2 Lawmar Lane, Burnt Hills, NY, United States
Phone: 5183998174
Facebook: facebook.com/toblibrary