Boomers' Blog

Bridging Generations

2008-12-04T14:55:21Z

Put February 18, 2009 from 3 -7 pm on your calendar. Teens can earn some community service hours setting up the games, then teaching and challenging the seniors to some great games. Food, prizes and fun are promised. Let's make it work, we'll call the paper and maybe cable to get in on the fun. It is definitely for the young at heart. Register by February 13th so that we know how much food to get. call 248-693-2001.

The Name is Going to Change

2008-08-07T00:46:19Z

Our Blog title is going to change to Boomers' Blog. The fall newsletter will give you a complete explanation to help you boomers get into the habit of blogging. Why should just the teeny-boppers do it?! Let's get this Boomer Blog going on any subject you think would be library related, i.e., books you recommend, programs you would like to see us offer, also your complaints about library service.....let us hear it all. Vent for all you're worth.

I can get you started with a fifth grade level problem and this is NOT a trick question!

1. There are seven girls in a bus.
2. Each girl has seven backpacks.
3. Each backpack has seven big cats and each cat has seven little cats.

How many legs are there in the bus? Comment with your answers and I will let you know. P.S. Don't count the busdriver.

We have lots of new activities going on this fall and they will be listed in the Fall newsletter due to come out before September first. Join in the fun and blog away!

Happy Holidays from the Outreach Department!

2007-12-18T20:59:29Z

The second Sunday Concerts that we presented from September through December have been a success. We ended the fall series with the Paint Creek Boys on December 9th. Even though the weather was a little iffy, we still had a great crowd. Outreach assistants Monica Crump and Delores VoVillia helped out at each concert. Also a thank you goes out to volunteers, especially Tom Suddeth, our designated photographer. (see photo of the Paint Creek Boys). The Friends sponsored the entertainment and the Outreach Department furnished the refreshments. Beginning in January, the adult department has a full line-up of entertainment as noted in our newsletter and on our website.

I do have a holiday book to recommend. It is called, “A Family Christmas” selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John and Jacqueline Kennedy. Caroline shares poetry, prose, scriptural passages and lyrics drawing on authors such as Truman Capote, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, Jr. and includes a letter to Santa Claus from Caroline as dictated to her mother. Jacqueline Kennedy always encouraged her children to read and as Caroline states, ” The liturgy and literature of Christmas teaches us that Christmas encompasses the miraculous and the tragic, the profound and the ridiculous, and always represents the connection to something larger than ourselves.” My own favorite in this book is “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote. It is wonderful!

Be safe this holiday season and Peace on Earth!

Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

2007-11-29T22:01:04Z

The Winter Library Newsletters have arrived and should be in your homes. As you will see, there is a lot of exciting things going on. Be sure and read about all of the stuff concerning Ernest Hemingway and the activities we have planned. Maybe you have some stories to tell us about your adventures up north. His family's cottage was located on Walloon Lake and I'm positive many of you have been in that vicinity of the North. I am from Marquette so I am very familiar wid' doze' yoopers! It doesn't take me long before I am into the dialect. If I get lonesome for adding "heh?" to the end of every sentence, I just call my brother or watch the movie, "Fargo". I think one of the best authors to write the perfect yooper dialect was Robert Traver (alias Judge John Voekler) who whote, " Anatomy of a Murder", " Laughing Whitefish", "Trout Magic" and "Small Town D.A. ", all set in the Marquette area, will get you laughing and thinking that you are a part of our great Up North.

I celebrated my 30th year at the library on November 1st. The changes, the growth, the technology and our community have all undergone a metamorphisis that is beyond comprehension. When I fisrt started at the library on M-24, there were 8 employees. The only librarian with a Masters Degree in Library Science was Director Mary Basigkow. We all answered reference questions, worked the desk sometimes for a full eight hour period and worked every Saturday plus two nights until 9 pm. I managed the Branch Library that we had in Gingellville located on Gregory and in the fire station building. The Gingell brothers, Frances and Harold insisted that we have a library in that area of the township and they even built the shelving and the circulation desk. Many good times were had by all in that building and there are some patrons that still rem,eber those good old days. It closed when we moved into our current library.

Be sure to come to the Paint Creek Boys concert December 9th at 2 pm. It will be fun to listen to this hown town group of musicians! The Friends are sponsoring the concert and refreshments will be served.

Talk to you next time, heh?

Fall has finally arrived!!!!

2007-10-10T20:51:45Z

We have finally gotten a change in the weather to match the time of year. Only getting to a high of fifty five degrees today, after temperatures in the 90's a few short days ago. School has begun with football, homecoming, concerts and programs have also started with a vengeance at the library.
Don't forget that this Sunday at 2 pm, the BIG CHIEF BARBERSHOP CHORUS is presenting a program of Happy Trails and Country Roads. This is a free and refreshments will be served following the concert. This Pontiac/Waterford Chapter of Barbershoppers has been in existence since 1943 and began with a group of guys from General Motors. We are fortunate that they will be doing some songs from their annual concert last year and some from the upcoming concert in November. By the way, tickets for their annual concert wlll be on sale that day for $15. each. OTPL has been a part of this chorus for many years thanks to one of the founders, Bill Pascher, who lived in Gingellville for many years and always came to the library for inspiration on set design and songs from the turn of the century. Bill now resides in a nursing home and his heart is always with the guys for each and every concert!

Monica continues to do homebound delivery and has continued with her nursing home programs. See pictures below. The Senior Center library's hours have been extended to 3 pm and computer classes are in full swing.

Monica presents balloon animals at Bortz program.

Crystal, the clown gives a hug to Bortz resident.