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 Community Screening ofBook-to-Action Videos Saturday, March 30 2:00 p.m. - Main Library In 2011, Hayward Public Library launched the first Book-to-Action program in California. Its success prompted the California State Library to promote the program throughout the state to encourage more libraries to match community-wide readings of books with volunteer activities. Come to a community screening of videos the Hayward Library produced about its Book-to-Action programs, including last year's series focused on Infinite Vision by Pavithra Mehta and Suchitra Shenoy and the distribution of free books by Hayward volunteers during the first U.S. World Night Book program. Celebrate the love of reading and civic engagement in Hayward, and find out about the library's next Book-to-Action program. |
 Coming April 13-May 11:
The Seed Read
Hayward Public Library will offer its first Seed Read, a 4 week-long event that will celebrate healthy living and seed saving. Adult and youth programming and book discussions will be geared around healthy living, seed saving, and gardening. The featured book will be The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray.
The Seed Read Kickoff event will be held on Saturday, April 13, and will be an educational and interactive health festival designed to provide local health and wellness resources and activities to Hayward community members. To help encourage our community to grow and consume wholesome food, the Hayward Public Library will be unveiling their new Seed Lending Library. Kickoff attendees will also be able to prepare some seeds for germination on the library rooftop. The germinated seeds can be picked up on May 11 to be taken home for planting.
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 Knitting Circle
Wednesday, March 13
6 pm. - Main Library
Welcome back knitters, both beginners and experts, to the Hayward Library Knitting Circle! The Circle will be meeting only on the 2nd Wednesday every month and will now include other fiber crafts including crochet, needlepoint, tatting, etc. As usual, we ask new members to bring size 10 knitting needles and yarn of their choice, but we also have extra supplies available if needed. Bring your project and knit (or tat or crochet) along with us!
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Writers' Group
Saturday, March 9, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 27, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Main Library
 Get feedback on your original writing in a peer-supported writers' group facilitated by local writer Leticia Garcia Bradford. Get the support you need to help you stay on track with your writing, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Bring 5-10 copies of the piece you wish to share with the group. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hayward Public Library.
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Upcoming Free CERT Program  Presented by the Hayward Fire Department, the CERT program will take place on Monday evenings, beginning April 8. Participants learn skills that will enable them to provide emergency assistance to their families and immediate neighbors as well as organize a neighborhood team response. For details, see the online flyer or contact the Public Education Officer at 510-583-4948. |
Lawyer in the Library 
Saturday, March 2
12 noon-2 p.m. - Main Library
Monday, March 4
6 p.m.-7:45 p.m. - Main Library
Wednesday, March 20
6 p.m.-7:45 p.m. - Weekes Branch
Do you need free legal advice? Don't know where to begin? Get 15 minutes of free legal advice at the Hayward Public Library with a licensed attorney. Registration in person is required. Registration begins 30 minutes before the first session. Space is limited. Consultation is assigned by lottery. Lawyer in the Library is sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association. Call 510-881-7980 for more information.
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 Help Improve the City of Hayward As you may know, Hayward is updating its General Plan.The General Plan Update is at an exciting point! www.hayward2040.org is the City's new discussion forum and idea generation website to help get citizen input about the General Plan and identify important issues. Obtaining widespread input from a broad range of community members is important to ensure that the General Plan reflects the community's priorities. The City of Hayward is asking you to do three simple things: 1) visit www.hayward2040.org
2) create an account - it's quick and easy
3) interact, comment and 'like' ideas on the site - let's hear from you Also, let your friends, neighbors, and others in the Hayward Community know about the site via email, Facebook and Twitter. Help get the word out! The site even has a translation feature. Your voice is important! |
Both the Main Library and Weekes Branch Library have a full set of textbooks from the Hayward Unified School District. Students in 4th - 12th grade have access to Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies/History textbooks in English and Spanish. Textbooks can't be checked out, but can be used in the library. Need help with your homework? Stop by the Library's After School Homework Support Center for small-group tutoring for students in 1st - 12th grade. For more information, check with your Youth Services Librarian.
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Need Help with Reading, Writing, or Spelling?
 You can get FREE TUTORING IF:- You read below the 8th grade level
- You can speak English
- You are 18+ and not in high school
- You never went to college
Call 510-881-7910 -- Literacy Plus -- Hayward Public Library |
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Get a Great Deal
on Books!
Saturdays
March 9 & 23
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
C Street & Watkins
Friends of the Hayward Library book sales are held at the downtown Farmers Market. In case of rain, the sale will be in front of the Main Library. |
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English Conversation Groups
Practice speaking English with others who are learning. All levels are welcome. No registration is required.
Mondays-Thursdays
5-7 p.m.
Day Labor Center
680 Tennyson Rd.
Saturdays
10:15 a.m.-12 noon
Weekes Branch
Contact Jami.Hiller@hayward-ca.gov 510-583-5505 for more information. |
Laughter Yoga
Saturday, March 2 3:00 p.m. Main Library
Come and join in the laughter, reduce stress, and learn that silliness is great for your health. |
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Would you like to get a text message when your holds are ready for pickup or your checked out items are almost due? Sign up for the ShoutBomb service. it's easy. Just text the word SIGNUP to hpl@shoutbomb.com and follow the prompts to get started.
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Book Groups
Mystery Novels by Women - State of the Onion
 Tuesday, March 5 @ 11:30 a.m., Le Paradis Bakery (D St. & Mission)In Julie Hyzy's first White House mystery, Assistant White House Chef Olivia Para is determined to achieve her dream job, Executive Chef in the most important kitchen in the world, but there are a couple slight hitches. Her cooking school nemesis also wants the job, an elusive assassin is gunning for her, and no one, including her Secret Service boyfriend, seems to be able to stop him or even locate him!
Mostly Literary Fiction - The Cat's Table
Monday, March 11 @ noon, Peets Coffee (B St. & Mission)
6:30 p.m., Main Library
Boarding a 1950s ship in Ceylon (contemporary Sri Lanka) and sequestered to an out-of-sight dining table with other marginalized children and adults, an eleven-year-old boy shares rollicking adventures while traveling to England, learning about jazz, women, and a shackled prisoner along the way. By turns poignant and electrifying, the latest novel by Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje is a spellbinding story about the discoveries and revelations of childhood, and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.
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The Friends of the Library is a nonprofit organization that has been supporting Hayward Public Library since 1982. The purpose of the Friends is to stimulate continuing community interest in the Hayward California Public Library and to be supportive of the Library staff and activities. The organization encourages gifts of books, magazines, desirable collections, endowments, bequests, and membership in the Friends of the Library, and participates in fund-raising activities
Support the Friends by making a donation.
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