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Celebrate Heritage Week

Ancestry Online Workshop is being offered on Thursday February 18th at 2:00pm - 3:30pm. The workshop is free to register but with limited space. Call 645-4171.

After School Program

The library will be offering fun activities after school for students ages 6-9. Join us at 3:45 - 4:45pm starting February 9th. Free! Tuesday February 9th Valentines, Tuesday February 16th Pioneer Days, Tuesday February 23rd Olympics.

Preschool

The winter session of programs has started and there is still some space left in both Tales for Twos and the Wednesday Story Hour. Please call to register. Story Hours for 3 to 5 year olds will be Wednesdays or Thursdays at 10:30am. Tales for Twos will be on Wednesdays or Thursdays at 9:30am. For program details see the Kids Page. Programs are free but registration is required.

Free Internet Training

Looking for something to do this Winter? How about updating your computer skills? Learn basic word programs and how to send and receive e-mail. Learn how to surf the Internet. To set up a no cost, one-hour, one-on-one learning session, call Kathy at the library: 645-4171.

Group Computer Workshop

Learn how to Create a Valentine’s Day Card ~ Have Fun with Computers!
Wednesday, February 3rd, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Boost your Brain Power!
Keep Your Memory in Shape: use your computer to exercise your brain in just minutes a day.
Wednesday, February 17th, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Workshops at the Bracebridge Public Library are free and on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please call #645-4171 and leave a message for Kathy

Welcome to One-derfuls

There will be no program on Monday February 1st due to staff training.
A lively program for active one year olds and their parent or grandparent. Join us on Mondays at 930am for simple songs, rhymes, and picture stories. This is a drop-in program and everyone is welcome. Programs will start Monday January 18th at 9:30am.

BPL Book Club

Every month we will discuss a different genre or category. Share your favorite book or author with others and learn about new authors.

January 27 - Topic: Humour

February 24 - Topic: Romance

March 31 - Topic: Courtroom Drama

Visiting Library Service

If you would like to bring joy to someone by spending several hours a month choosing and delivering reading materials to them in their own home, please call Ruth at the library 645-4171. You could make someone very happy.

Writer In Residence - Melody Richardson

The Muskoka Writing Circle is evolving, as every good group should. Due to the size of the group (14 members & growing), and to keep the group interesting despite cramped quarters, we'll now focus on reading & positive critiquing of members' work in progress. Our invitation to new members still stands. If you write poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction including memoirs, join us the third Saturday of the month at 9am. Expect to be inspired. Want more information? Contact Melody at 788-3143 after 6 pm.
Are you still interested in sharing your memoirs? Join the Sharing Memories group at the library on the 1st Saturday of the month at 9am.

Meeting Schedule
The next meetings are:
Muskoka Writing Circle ~ January16th, February 20th and March 20th.
Sharing Memories ~ January 9th , February 6th and March 6th.

Yesterday: Anthology of Memoirs

The Memoirs' Group at Bracebridge Public Library has given birth - collectively!
Our new book, Yesterday: Anthology of Memoirs, has arrived safe & sound. All parents are positively proud of our offspring. The anthology contains excerpts from 13 memoirists. It's a read you won't want to miss. We have stories about a tea plantation in India, life on a corvette in the Atlantic, survival in the Polish resistance, logging in Muskoka, teaching in Africa, childhood, love, loss & much more.

The cost is $21 (including GST) & is published under my own imprint, Panda Publishing. 

Yesterday: Anthology of Memoirs can be purchased from anyone involved in the project: Carl Bedal, Maria Duncalf-Barber, Catherine Elliott, Liane Good, Sandra Hansen, Barb Hammell, Bruce Liddle, Thelma Marrin, Wilma Petch, Marie Rempel, Maurice Rose'Meyer, George Sikorski, Cindy Watson or me. (melodyr@vianet.ca) It's been an honour to listen to these authors share their work in our monthly writers' circle at the library. That's a priviledge I couldn't keep to myself. I guarantee you will remember their stories.

Other Meetings

Library Board meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. in the Robert J. Boyer Reading Room. These meetings are open to the public.