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This Week at Your Library:
March 14
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OBPL Celebrates  OBPL WINS DIA GRANT! Organizing Your Papers & Photos The Longest Walk: WWII History Honeybees & Apitherapy |
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Dear Library Member,
The maker movement in the United States isn't just a hobby; it's having a significant impact on school curriculum development and growing local economies. To celebrate making and maker culture, residents throughout New Jersey will come together on Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 19, 2016 for NJ Makers Day in libraries, schools, museums, homes, and other community locations. This all-ages event supports making, tinkering, crafting, manufacturing and STEM-based learning.
Celebrate NJ Makers Day at the Library this Saturday from 11 am to 3 pm and help promote and explore new opportunities for entrepreneurship, innovation and hands-on learning experiences with DOZENS of activities and collaborative efforts!
I am extremely pleased to announce that the Old Bridge Public Library has won one of a handful of "Dia" grants from the American Library Association's Association for Library Service to Children division! Funded by Dollar General Corporation, the Dia grant (short for El día de los niños/El día de los libros - Children's Day/Book Day), focuses on the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Our winning proposal will help enable us to offer culturally diverse programs for youth and establish a collection of tablets that are pre-loaded with literacy apps. Stay tuned for program announcements and the arrival of the tablets!
A few highlights of many educational, informational and recreational programs this week include:
- Organizing Papers and Photos. Join Organizing Specialist, Author, and Motivational Humorist, Jamie Novak, for a night that will include good laughs, and tips on how to sort and organize boxes of photographs and papers. Just in time to deal with all those tax-related papers!
- The Longest Walk. Author Paul Zigo will present a lecture on his recently published book, The Longest Walk. It is the amazing story of the 116th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army's 29th Infantry Division from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the capture of St. Lo, France, 40 agonizing days later - the "longest walk." It lost one-third of its 3200 men on Omaha Beach including more than 350 dead on D-Day. The regiment's devastating assault is featured in the riveting opening scene of the movie Saving Private Ryan.
- Honeybees and Apitherapy. Dr. Pat Kotlar Paslawsky, Beekeeper, Farmer, Chiropractor and Health Enthusiast will show various honeybee hive components and products. She will explain how these have been used for human health improvements.
Don't forget to join us for fun and learning at NJ Makers Day on Saturday from 11-3! Have a spectacular week. See you in the Library!
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