Friends of the the Library

April has National Library Week from the 10th to the 16th!

Friends of the Library will have their meeting on Thursday, April 7^th from  12:00-1:00pm at the Blue Lake Community Center.   
 Everyone is invited to attend!

WELCOME Dr. Anne B. Jones is the author of STOP, a manual for youth violence prevention, Gold Thunder, an autobiography of 1960 NASCAR Champion Rex White, All Around the Track, a collection of racing mini-memoirs, Brave at Heart, the story of Photographer Walter Victor & the Atlanta Braves, Tides of Fear, a thriller set on the Georgia coast and Tools for Successful Writing. She has just completed A Light on Peachtree: A History of the Atlanta Woman’s Club. STOP was published and released by the Atlanta Council on Battered Women, distributed nationwide, and included as part of the television documentary Behind Closed Doors, narrated by Monica Kaufman of Atlanta’s Channel 2 News Team. Brave at Heart was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year.
Dr. Jones specialized in working with at-risk students for thirty-one years, teaching in a variety of school settings, including Job Corp, Boys and Girls Town (a shelter for status offenders) and Dekalb Alternative School (an educational center for suspended students). She is a volunteer mediator and has been a rape crisis counselor, victim-witness assistant, volunteer probation officer, public relations writer, and member of the Gwinnett County Domestic Violence Task Force.
Dr. Jones has published over 500 feature articles on topics ranging from crime prevention to personality profiles and makes frequent presentations on writing and publishing topics at bookstores and writing workshops.

Make your lunch reservations

by calling Pam Butler at 638-0204, by noon on Monday, March 28, 2011.

The cost of the meal is $7.00. Be ready to let her know which number sandwich and drink you would like. If you cannot find your menu, please contact a Friend. Boar-Deli will be catering, and includes a six inch sub, chips, pickle, drink, & dessert.

John Grisham is the ALA's honorary chair for National Library Week. So, Grisham will be my author of the month.

The glass case will have information on National Library Week!

Lucinda Says: Thanks to all who helped make Game Night a great success.

Everyone had a wonderful time!

• Monday, April 11 – 2011 State of America's Report released

• Tuesday, April 12 – National Library Workers Day

• Wednesday, April 13 – National Bookmobile Day

• Wednesday, April 13 – 2010 Top Ten Most Banned and Challenged Books announced

• Thursday, April 14 – Support Teen Literature Day

The Washington County Public Library is offering a summer library program to the children of our community to encourage them to read for pleasure during the summer and to retain their reading skills.   This year’s theme is:       

To add to the fun and to create a sense of challenge that will keep kids reading, we’d like to offer incentives in our “It Pays to Read” store and prizes drawn at the end of the summer. Because of our limited budget, we cannot afford to offer this without help.

Any donation you care to make will be appreciated. A supply list can be provided for your collection and donation.

The Write Place!

The writers group continues to meet on the first Monday of each month at the Chipley library at 6:00 PM.

Please come and join us!

 

March Newsletter

Friends of the Library will have their meeting on Thursday, March 3rd from 12:00-1:00pm at the Blue Lake Community Center.

 Everyone is invited to attend!

Ruth McCrary, Friends member and educator, will review Swedish author, Steig Larsson’s trilogy, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.  She will give some interesting tidbits of his life and death.  The three books have been national bestsellers and movies have been made both in Sweden and the United States. In 2008 the books were the second bestsellers internationally.   Larsson never lived to see them a success.  Some people believe his death is the result of a crime. Ruth will review the books in terms of the influence of his life on the material in the books.  Is Michael Blomkvist, the male main character, based on Larsson’s life?  And, is Lisbeth Salander, the girl who…, based on a real life person?  She will also look at how politics, family, and the geography of Sweden influenced the author all of his life.  Ruth said, “I have been to Sweden and have walked the area of Stockholm where much of the story takes place.  I emailed a Swedish friend and asked specific questions as to how the Swedish people view Larsson and his books.  I will share her answers.” 

Teen Tech Week 2011 is March 6-12! Teen Tech Week is a national initiative aimed at teens, librarians, educators, parents, and other concerned adults that highlights nonprint resources at the library. The 2011 theme — Mix and Mash @ your library — focuses on encouraging teens to use library resources to express their creativity by developing their own unique online content and safely sharing it by using online collaborative tools.

Game Night

Thursday March 10th at the
Ag Center 6:00 pm
Bring your Team and get ready to play

Make your lunch reservations by calling Rosa Nell Baxley at 638-1470, by noon on Monday, February 28, 2011.

The cost of the meal is $7.00. Be ready to let her know which number sandwich and drink you would like. If you cannot find your menu, please contact a Friend. Boar-Deli will be catering, and includes a six inch sub, chips, pickle, drink, & dessert.

The Washington County Public Library is offering a summer library program to the children of our community to encourage them to read for pleasure during the summer and to retain their reading skills.   This year’s theme is:     
  

To add to the fun and to create a sense of challenge that will keep kids reading, we’d like to offer incentives in our “It Pays to Read” store and prizes drawn at the end of the summer. Because of our limited budget, we cannot afford to offer this without help.


We would LIKE to have a drawing for each of our branches this summer. Some kids that live in Washington County, just can’t make it to Chipley for a program. Any donation you care to make will be appreciated. A supply list will be distributed later for you collection.

Lucinda Says: I hope to see you all at our meeting March 3. I am looking forward to Ruth sharing her insights on the book series. Game night is coming up March 10. We will have tickets at the meeting for you to sell and we will also need sign ups for refreshments. Be recruiting friends now for a table of your favorite game with your favorite people, or plan to learn a new game and make new friends. Game night is a great fund raiser so lets promote it now. Lucinda

March is Women's History Month! Come see the display in the glass case on incredible and interesting women located in the foyer of the Chipley library.

The New York Times Bestseller table will continue by the circulation desk.

Check out the best new reads!

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”  Groucho Marx

February 2011 Newsletter

Welcomes Ray Davis!

Friends of the Library will have their meeting on Thursday, February 3rd from 12:00-1:00 at the Blue Lake Community Center.

Everyone is invited to attend!

The speaker will be Ray Davis of Panama City, Fl. who released his first historical fiction novel in April, "No Fences." Davis, has been practicing pharmacy for 43 years and is presently at CVS Pharmacy on 23rd Street. He received his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Georgia in 1967. He was married later that year, and has lived for most of the past 42 years with his family in Northwest Florida. During the 1980s he founded Appealing Appaloosas, Inc., and raised, gentled and sold Appaloosa horses of the Plaudit bloodline. He authored countless health-related and outdoor newspaper articles during the 1980s in the Beach Bay News.

• Make your lunch reservations

by calling Rosa Nell Baxley at 638-1470, by noon on Monday, January 31, 2011.


The cost of the meal is $7.00. Be ready to let her know which number sandwich and drink you would like. If you cannot find your menu, please contact a Friend. Boar-Deli will be catering, and includes a six inch sub, chips, pickle, drink, & dessert.

•  Lucinda Says,
  We need volunteers to sign up at this meeting. Some will be needed to help with games and refreshments on Game Night. Some may need to help with the Bridge A Rama dinner. We need hosts / hostesses for the general meeting. You may wish to be on the program committee. There are many opportunities to serve. Be thinking how You can help. If you missed our January meeting, come and meet our new officers: Vice President, Pam Butler and Secretary, Ruth McCrary. The Blue Lake building was a warm refuge from a raw January day--as well as a place to greet friends and make new ones. See you in February. Lucinda

• The ALSC media awards below were announced in January 2011
  (John) Newbery Medal honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
• The 2011 winner is Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
  
  (Randolph) Caldecott Medal honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The 2011 Caldecott Medal winner is
• A Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead.
  (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Medal honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.
• The 2011 Medal winner is Bink and Gollie, written by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGee, illustrated by Tony Fucile.
  Make sure your loved ones have a copy or donate one to your library!

 The Washington County Public Library is proud to present on February 22, 2011

Irina Sorset

with

THE FLORIDA PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY NETWORK

• 3:30 p.m. Children's Event: Introduction to Underwater Archaeology Power Point & Build-a-Boat ActivityWith the theme of underwater archaeology.
• 6:00 p.m. Adult Program: Power Point Lecture on the Emanual Point Shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay (From Tristan de Luna's 1559 fleet)

Who doesn't love shipwrecks?!?!

Welcoming a New Year!

Friends of the Library will have their first meeting of the year on Thursday, January 6 from 12:00-1:00 at the Blue Lake Community Center.

Lucinda Says,

Everyone is very busy now, but we must remember our next meeting, January 6, 2011. We will be electing officers and voting on by-laws revision.

Our program will be put on by YOU, or as many of you as have a good book to share and we have time for.  So plan to share your Christmas book or another recent read you have enjoyed and think others will also enjoy. See you next year!      Lucinda

Everyone is invited to attend!

Book Blitz Month

Make your lunch reservations by calling Rosa Nell Baxley at 638-1470, by noon on Monday, January 3, 2010.

The cost of the meal is $7.00. Be ready to let her know which number sandwich and drink you would like. If you cannot find your menu, please contact a Friend. The meal is being catered again by Boar-Deli, and includes a six inch sub, chips, pickle, drink, and dessert.

What’s your favorite type of book? Epic? Romance? Comedy? Thriller?
January is National Book Blitz Month!! So it is time to build up that book collection with some best sellers and personal favorites or donate them to your local library!
There are so many options for getting your hands on some really good reads. You can always read in the comfort of your home with a choice from your own assortment of literature. How about reading online or going to the library? Although going to the public library used to be an age old activity, it is now a fun filled adventure that the entire family can enjoy!
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January 11th, Robert will be discussing “Suicide Nostalgia”.  The consequences of a red dress, a new attitude, and a fresh romance. Join him at noon.

 

We will continue to display the New York Time’s Best Sellers.

The Author of the Month is:

~ Raymond Feist ~

(full name Raymond Elias Feist),  is a Southern Californian by birth and a San Diegan by choice. He was educated at the University of California, San Diego, where he received his B. A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977. Hobbies include collecting movies on DVD, fine wine, books on the history of Professional Footbal, and the works of American Illstrators.

Wii Bowling Tournament 

Tournament begins                                                Champion crowned

JANUARY 10th                                                                                                 JANUARY 15th

                         Entry fee: $2.00

Registration and entry fee must be postmarked or delivered to any library location by the deadline.
Registration forms and rules are available at any library location and at Vernon Discount Drugs, Dee’s Restaurant, and the Wausau Post Office.

Chipley Branch of the
WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

1444 Jackson Avenue (Highway 90)

Chipley, Florida 32428

850-638-1314

November Newsletter

Friends of the Library will be having their monthly meeting on Thursday, November 4th 12:00 noon at the Blue Lake Community Center with a brown bag lunch.  Welcome Cate Noble!

The guest author will be Cate Noble who has been writing since childhood. Her first romantic suspense novel "Lone Rider" (written under the pseudonym Lauren Bach)was published by Warner Books in 2001 and won Virginia Romance Writers Hall Award. She went on to publish three more Lauren Bach novels.
In 2009 our author kicked off a series of romantic thrillers written under her current pseudonym Cate Noble. Her February 2009 book "Dead Rights" was nominated for RT Book Review Reviewers Choice Awards and was called "impressive" by Publishers Weekly. Her latest release, "Deadly Seduction" (Feb.2010) continues the saga of the missing CIA agents which wraps up with "Deadly Games" (Feb. 2011). Books will be available for purchase with signing by the author

A certified Life Strategies coach and former accountant Cate is passionate about the craft of writing. She is a member of International Thrillers Writers and Romance Writers of America. She writes full time and resides in Panama City, Fl. with her husband. For more information visit her website: www.CateNoble.com

Everyone is invited to attend!

Make Your Reservations

by calling Rosa Nell Baxley at 638-1470, by noon on Monday,

November 1, 2010.

The cost of the meal is $7.00. Be ready to let her know which number sandwich and drink you would like. If you cannot find your menu, please contact a Friend. The meal is being catered again by Boar-Deli, and includes a six inch sub, chips, pickle, drink, and dessert.

Lucinda says:

The BOOKSALE is scheduled for

Friday, November 19th, 9am-4pm

Saturday, November 20th, 9am-12pm.

Volunteer Sign Up sheets will be available at the meeting.
Bring your book donations to the little old libarary or at the Friends meeting.

We will continue to display the New York Time’s Best Sellers.

The Author of the Month is:

~ Lori Copeland ~

Christian Fiction genre

Stop by and see both displays!

Robert will be discussing “Suicide Nostalgia”.

The consequences of a red dress, a new attitude, and a fresh romance

"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. "                        Thomas Jefferson

The Staff at the Washington County Public Library would like to inform you of the latest and greatest happenings. We’ve been quite busy filling up our calendar with events for the public.

Everyone has a story to tell…What’s yours?

Join us at the Washington County Library in Chipley on November 8th at 6:30 P.M. for an organizational meeting for the creation of a writer’s group. What you need as encouragement will be the primary focus of this meeting and a convenient meeting schedule will be created by the group. It is important that each member feels comfortable enough to share ideas, stories, suggestions, or just attend and listen. Future plans include a blog to showcase your work.

For more information please call Linda at 850-638-1314 or

e-mail me at director@wcplfl.com subject: writers group.

Get your GAME ON! Celebrate across America on National Gaming Day !

Saturday, November 13th, @ your Library from 12:00p.m. until 4:00p.m.

Are you game? Your Library won a grant and wants to celebrate with you!

Bring a team or your family to enjoy the tension and excitement of stimulating board games!

Bring a snack or beverage, popcorn will be provided!

Games include: Wits & Wagers, Scrabble, Apples to Apples Jr, Blockus, Buzzword, Eric Carles ABC, Things, Twilight Scene It, Kerplunk and many more!

Friends are needed to volunteer as extra eyes along with Zedra ~ sign up at the meeting!

October Newsletter

Friends of the Library will have their meeting on Thursday, October 7th from 12:00-1:00 at the Blue Lake Community Center. Friends of the Library guest author for the October 7th meeting will be Bruce Gamble of Lynn Haven. A freelance author and World War II historian will share his recently released book, "Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942-May 1943". The 416 page book details the rise of Japan's most notorious stronghold in the Pacific during the first 17 months of WWII. The experiences of several Florida residents are highlighted. Mr. Gamble, a retired naval flight officer, has appeared as the featured historian in documentaries on the History Channel and Fox News Channel. He recently was named the recipient of the 2010 Author W. Radford Award for excellence in naval aviation history and literature.


There will be time for a book purchase and signing following the meeting.
Make your lunch reservations by calling Rosa Nell Baxley at 638-1470, by noon on Monday, October 4, 2010.

• Make your lunch reservations

by calling Rosa Nell Baxley at  638-1470, by noon on Monday, October 4, 2010. 

The cost of the meal is $7.00. Be ready to let her know which number sandwich and drink you would like. If you cannot find your menu, please contact a Friend. The meal is being catered again by Boar-Deli, and includes a six inch sub, chips, pickle, drink, and dessert.

 

October is

• Robert will be discussing Bram Stoker’s, “Dracula’s Guest”, a story about a magical carriage ride. Hop on board for a fun ride.

 We will continue to display the New York Time’s

Best Sellers.

Renae's Book Nook

October’s Author of the Month will be

Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child
Stop by and see both displays!

Lucinda says:
As usual, I had a wonderful summer. I wish to thank Inga for taking care of business while I was away.  Special thanks to Susan and Jane. I have heard wonderful reports about the September program, and there is another great guest lined up for October. Spread the word and encourage your friends to come.  Go through your personal libraries for books for the book sale. Cynthia will be asking us for assistance soon. The booksale is scheduled for November 19-20 (cooler weather. Thanks to all for carrying on in my absence.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.  Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.  ~Finley Peter Dunne

The Washington County Public Library would like to inform you of the latest and greatest happenings. We’ve been quite busy filling up our calendar with events for the public.

October 13th from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Renae will be hosting a Job Start Program where local school and job resources will talk about their services available for you.

October 14th starting at 6:30pm, Linda will be having an organizational meeting for interested Bell Ringers! The Washington County Library and the Washington County Arts Council offer you and your children an opportunity to try something brand-spanking new. Your child can become a charter member of this county’s new hand bell performers. And to make life a little more interesting, an alternative method of making music known as boomwhackers also will be introduced. So, if the hand bells initiative does not ring your child’s chimes, maybe the boomwhackers portion will strike a harmonious chord. All of you--kids and caregivers alike--need to join us at the public library in Chipley on October 14th, at 6:30 P.M. Want to know more?? The Washington County Library would like to invite you and your children to an organizational meeting of the children’s hand bell performers and boomwhackers community effort. The children must be ages 6 through 12 for the younger group, and 13 through 18 for the older group. At this meeting, we will discuss when to practice, possible names for the groups, and types of music to be performed. The whole purpose of the program is to introduce area youth to the joys of playing and appreciating music. Performance etiquette and team-building skills also will be important parts of this program’s focus. For more information, or if you would like to volunteer to be a mentor to some future boomwhacker star, call Linda Norton at (850) 638-1314.

October 19th feel free to stop by the Ag Center for the Senior Expo show and see us from 9am – 1pm!



 



September Newsletter

Friends of the Washington County Public Library

Welcome Olivia deBelle Byrd !

Friends of the Library will have their first meeting on the year on

Thursday, September 2nd from 12:00-1:00 at the Blue Lake Community Center.

 

We are excited to have local author from Panama City, Olivia deBelle Byrd, share with us her book "Miss Hildreth Wore Brown-Anecdotes of a Southern Belle." With storytelling written in the finest Southern tradition Olivia delves with wit and amusement into the Deep South with all of its unique idiosyncrasies and colloquialisms. This book is guaranteed to provide an afternoon of laugh out loud reading and hilarious enjoyment. Come meet the author and buy an autographed copy of this delightful book.

Everyone is invited to attend!

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  Book Discussion

Robert will be having the first book discussion of the season in October.

Find out next month what he has in store!

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  Banned Books Week

September 25th - October 2nd

• You’re Invited to See the Display in our lobby of our State Parks!

It’s that special time again to get Free Entrance to all Florida State Parks with a book donation.

Author Sends New Book To Chipley Library click here to see the story