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SUMMARY:Stone Village Poetry Experience Slam
DESCRIPTION:Last Chance to Enjoy the Slam Poets! \nMark your calendars: the final Stone Village Poetry Experience Slam will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday\, May 5. \nJoin the authors who’ve been reading and the poetry lovers who’ve been enjoying the readings at the First Universalist Parish of Chester (211 North St). But\, this being the final of the slams\, there’ll be more: poets who have read and been judged during all three events will be awarded first\, second and third prizes by the judges who will be—as they always are—picked from the audience. \nAnd\, as always\, the event will begin and end with non-competitive poets reading from their works. \nBy all accounts\, the evenings have been a great success. Poets have ranged in age from high-school students to retirees\, and poems have ranged in topics from lust\, love and loss to hopes and homelessness. \nThe events have been sponsored by the First Universalist Parish and Chester’s Whiting Library. Some of the poems have been refined at the Poetry Workshops that have been held as part of the Stone Village Poetry Experience. The final workshop will be held at the library (177 Main St) at 7 p.m. on May 19. \nFor more information\, contact slam-master Tuck Wunderle at Tuckerman@terrigenous.com or Deirdre Doran at whitinglibrary1@gmail.com \n\nTo attend the Poetry Slam on Zoom: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89720546568?pwd=aWpmZXNINlNnVkl4K1pJSkZmMHdidz09 \nEnter the passcode: poetry
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SUMMARY:Story Time!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books\, crafts ideas will be shared\, and booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. It is aimed at kids 3-5 years old\, but all are welcome. \nWe encourage parents of little ones who may not be quite ready to sit through Story Time to come at 10:30am to socialize with other parents of children in the 0-3 age range. Carrie will share some books\, other resources\, and give everyone time to connect! \nEveryone\, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will sit outside if weather permits\, or spread out in the community room.
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SUMMARY:Green Up Day!
DESCRIPTION:On May 7th\, 2022\, Whiting Library is throwing our 3rd annual Green Up Day celebration on the front lawn of the library at 117 Main St. from 10am-2pm. This fun event is for all ages and one of the venues in Chester where you can pick up your special green trash bag for the 52nd annual Vermont Green Up Day. Join us and get involved with this much-loved\, spring clean-up tradition that activates thousands of Vermonters to take care of their communities by picking up roadside litter. Keeping our environment clean is good for our health\, good for businesses\, and good for our property values. Together we build pride in our cities and towns and teach our youth about powerful civic engagement that affects climate change. \nThis event will also feature a hands on seed planting demonstration and activity area for anyone who wants to plant some seeds to bring home. The Seed Library\, a free seed exchange\, sponsored by the Mountain Valley Climate Action group will be all stocked up and ready for your gardening adventures. Come get seeds or bring seeds that you have. It’s an exchange either way! \nDuring this outdoor event\, we will bring out as many books from the basement book sale as we can carry in order to do a little spring cleaning. The book sale will be by donation and all proceeds from the sale will go towards buying materials and supplies for the library. Come with a reusable bag to load up with great reads from out book sale\, including fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children. \nLet’s celebrate Green Up Day together!
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SUMMARY:Board of Trustees Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The public is welcome to attend Whiting Library Board of Trustees Meetings. They are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30am. The meeting takes place on Zoom. \nHere is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82751139946?pwd=VCsrd0xBb1FBdU1obU1SbTM2N1ZvZz09A
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SUMMARY:Foster Care Month Story Hour/Book Club!
DESCRIPTION:Whiting Library celebrates National Foster Care Month with a special family story hour. This event combines the library’s usual monthly kid’s book clubs to focus on learning about foster care\, adoption\, and family differences. Youth Services Librarian\, Carrie King\, will do a read aloud of fun pictures books that engage kids and get them learning about foster care. The library will have a collection of relevant books available for check out about foster care and adoption. Books help children better understand different families\, so that children in foster care aren’t left out or secluded for their differences or traumas.   \nSpecial guest Michelle Springer-Blake\, a Recruitment and Retention Specialist for the Department for Children and  Families\, will join the group to discuss how attendees can support foster care in Vermont. Springer-Blake encourages all families in the community to come and learn about foster care at the library\, “I think if we can collaborate and share the love of reading\, children\, and families\, together we can make a difference in our world a little at a time!” Everyone who loves story time will enjoy this event\, and Springer-Blake will be on hand to answer questions for those who want to know more about becoming involved in foster care.
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SUMMARY:Whiting Library Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Whiting Library Book Club is holding our monthly book discussion at the library in the community room (masks required!) and simultaneously live on Zoom. The book for May is Anxious People by Fredrick Backman. Copies are available at the library right now! All are welcome to attend whether this is your first book club ever or you were born at a book club. We love to talk books! \nIf you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club\, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277. \nHere is a description of this month’s book: \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.
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SUMMARY:Story Time!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books\, crafts ideas will be shared\, and booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. It is aimed at kids 3-5 years old\, but all are welcome. \nWe encourage parents of little ones who may not be quite ready to sit through Story Time to come at 10:30am to socialize with other parents of children in the 0-3 age range. Carrie will share some books\, other resources\, and give everyone time to connect! \nEveryone\, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will sit outside if weather permits\, or spread out in the community room.
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SUMMARY:Stone Village Poetry Experience Workshop
DESCRIPTION:It’s time to pull out your poetry notebook. Or\, better yet\, start a poetry notebook. You’ll want to be ready to take part in or just enjoy the Thursday-evening Stone Village Poetry Experience in March\, April and May. Or just to come listen—it’s a lot of fun! \nCo-sponsored by Chester’s Whiting Library and the First Universalist Parish of Chester\, the Poetry Experience will offer monthly poetry slams and poetry-writing workshops that are open to all. \nThe slams will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday\, March 17\, April 14 and May 5. The workshops will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday\,  March 31\, April 28 and May 19. \nPoetry slams are light-heartedly competitive events in which judges made up of audience members rate the quality of each poet’s reading. Green Mountain Union High and Emerson College graduate Tuck Wunderle will serve as slam master. The slams will take place at the UU Church\, at 211 North St.\, in Chester’s Stone Village. \nThe poetry-writing workshops will be led by Wunderle and Nick Boke. These published poets will facilitate discussions of the poems brought to the workshop by would-be or highly experienced poets\, including but not limited to those who want to practice their slam presentations. \nThe workshops will take place in the Whiting Library\, 117 Main St. in Chester. Slam poets who participate in all three Thursdays can compete for $25\, $50 and $100 prizes. For more about slams\, click here. \nFor more information about the Stone Village Poetry Experience\, contact Tuck Wunderle at tuckerman@terrigenous.com\, Nick Boke at nickboke@gmail.com or Whiting Director Deirdre Doran at whitinglibrary1@gmail.com.
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SUMMARY:Story Time!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books\, crafts ideas will be shared\, and booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. It is aimed at kids 3-5 years old\, but all are welcome. \nWe encourage parents of little ones who may not be quite ready to sit through Story Time to come at 10:30am to socialize with other parents of children in the 0-3 age range. Carrie will share some books\, other resources\, and give everyone time to connect! \nEveryone\, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will sit outside if weather permits\, or spread out in the community room.
URL:https://www.whitinglibrary.org/event/story-time-17/
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SUMMARY:Story Time!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books\, crafts ideas will be shared\, and booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. It is aimed at kids 3-5 years old\, but all are welcome. \nWe encourage parents of little ones who may not be quite ready to sit through Story Time to come at 10:30am to socialize with other parents of children in the 0-3 age range. Carrie will share some books\, other resources\, and give everyone time to connect! \nEveryone\, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will sit outside if weather permits\, or spread out in the community room.
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