"Connecting Chatham to the World"
Summer 2015
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Watch your inbox for our monthly emails that give detailed info on all the amazing programs offered at the Eldredge. 
  
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Tuesday, June 2 at 7:00 pm
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Saturday, June 6 at 2:00 pm
Patry Francis
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In Memory of Libby Mottur
 
Libby Mottur
We would like to recognize the work of Libby Mottur, who died in March after a brief illness.  Libby was not only a devoted and enthusiastic member of the FEPL board, but was a volunteer extraordinaire at many other Chatham organizations.  At the time of her death she was co-chair of the FEPL Ways and Means Committee, as well as President of the League Club of Cape Cod, an organization that supports agencies that serve women and children.  Previously Libby was the chairman of the Chatham 300 Committee, a long time member of Eastward Ho! Flower Committee and the First Night Committee.  Libby is survived by her three children and five grandchildren.  We will miss Libby's leadership, friendship and commitment to the community!
 
by Beth Holden,
FEPL President  
You're Invited to the Friends Annual Meeting on June 9th! by Beth Holden, FEPL Beth Holden President
      

     Please join us on June 9th at 4:00 pm for the Friends of the Eldredge Public Library Annual Meeting.    A short business meeting will be followed by the election of new FEPL board members.  There will be plenty of wonderful refreshments to enjoy.  If you are interested in being on the FEPL board, this is a great opportunity to find out what it's all about.  All are welcome to attend. 

Happy Spring! by Phyllis Freeman, Trustee President

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     The Board of Trustees is pleased to announce three HAPPY MOMENTS during the merry month of May.

     At the May Town Meeting our Citizen's Petition to reimburse the library for staff salary adjustments was passed unanimously!  Not one murmur of dissent.

     Members of the Trustee Board, Friends Board and the Trustee Advisory Board gathered in May to hear an update of what's new at the Library.  After remarks by Phyllis Freeman for the Trustees and Beth Holden for the Friends, Director Irene Gillies gave a power point presentation highlighting the growing use of ebooks, and Youth activities from Itsy Bitsy Yoga to Tweens and Teens.

     Our greatest joy is the fact that we have achieved our Annual Fund Goal for this fiscal year!  We are truly thankful to all of you who make the Library a priority in your giving.  Your gifts to the annual fund enable us to pay for the essentials: Staff salaries, materials, utilities, tech support, and a myriad of other expenses.  We are profoundly appreciative of your ongoing support.             

 

Membership Renewal Moves Up by Sherry Hesch and Dan McPhee, Friends' Membership Committee

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     This year, we are moving the date of our Friends of Eldredge Public Library membership drive to July, coinciding with the start of our fiscal year.  We will soon be mailing out invitations, asking you to continue your membership or to join us as a Friend and help provide the financial support so essential to sustaining the excellence of our Library.

  Your participation helps maintain and expand our FEPL supported programs, reaching all ages and aimed at both seasonal and year-round patrons of the Library.  If you do not receive our invitation in the mail, you can log on to www.eldredgelibrary.org, select "Donate" and "Friends Membership" and complete the on-line form.

            

 

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Summer Reading Program for Adults by Irene Gillies, Library Director

 

     What better ways to escape the ordinary than reading books to meet new characters and travel unfamiliar territories, or by being transported by the acting and exotic locales in films? This year's theme is perfect for our summer readers! We'll have tricky puzzles and quizzes to challenge your knowledge of the extraordinary, and programs to bring you new authors, ideas and experiences.

     As usual, we'll have weekly drawings for prizes, with a grand prize drawing at summer's end; but you might find the prizes this year a departure from the ordinary! For all the details, visit the Library after June 30th. Escape the Ordinary starts July 1st and wraps up August 28th. 

It's a bird!...It's a plane!...It's a super summer at the Eldredge Public Library! by Tammy DePasquale, Youth Services Librarian      
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     Last year we put on our safety glasses and rolled up the sleeves of our lab coats to explore and experiment with a science-based summer reading theme. This year, we will step into our telephone booths, shed our everyday clothing and emerge as...? Well, that is yet to be discovered!

     This summer's Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) themes, Every Hero Has a Story for prereaders through grade 4 and Unmask! for students in grades 5 to 12, provide us with a rousing opportunity to explore what it means to be a hero, to recognize the heroes among us and in literature, and to discover our own inner hero.

     Youth Services has a variety of events scheduled    this summer for children, teens, and families of all ages. The July/August calendars will be available at the library and on our website, www.eldredgelibrary.org, beginning June 15th.

     We hope to see you at our kick-off event on Tuesday, June 30th at 1:30 for comic mime Robert Rivest's Every Hero Has a Great Story!, a high-energy, participatory, upbeat journey that explores heroes of all kinds. No registration is required for this one-of-a-kind event. Unmask Logo Registration for the CSLP Every Hero Has a Story and Unmask! will immediately follow the performance.        

     Sponsored by the Eldredge Public Library, the Friends of the Eldredge Public Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, the Collaborative Summer Library Program is a nationwide, grassroots consortium working together to provide public libraries with high-quality summer reading program materials with a unified theme for children, teens, and adults at the lowest cost possible.

     
Learning Series Update by Kerry Brown, Learning Series Chairman      
    As the Spring program begins to wind down, we John Whelan Course have a number of thank-you's to make.  In particular, as indicated by our evaluation sheets, the teachers of our courses were uniformly stellar this year, with all receiving top ratings for their classes.  We are also deeply grateful to Kevin McClain at the Orpheum Theater, Georgia Farrell at the Chatham Community Center and the staff at St. Christopher's Church for being so generous with their time and for making their facilities available to us.
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Hospitality Committee Needs Your Help  by Marilyn Sink and Diane Karel, Hospitality Co-Chairs 
 

     For those of you who are Friends of our beloved Chatham    Marilyn Sink Library and like to bake or are willing to buy desserts/munchies/drinks for the EPL's numerous educational, informative, enjoyable and stimulating literary events, your Hospitality Co-Chairs, Diane Karel and Marilyn Sink, would appreciate your support...you will only be called on once or twice and it would be our pleasure to meet some new "Friends" of the Library. 

     Another event which is looming large in the horizon is our August 22nd Fund Raiser, Books in Bloom...the Hospitality Committee is in charge of providing the food for this event and we will certainly need lots of extra "hands" to make sure there is enough food for this important occasion.  Please contact Diane Karel at 973-493-0437 or Marilyn Sink at 802-752-7396.   

  

 

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