Thursday and Friday the library will be closed while the fiction and reference rooms are reorganized.

Tomorrow: The Vision of Wallkill workshop will take place in the community room of Town Hall from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. A special Story Time will be offered at the library at 11 a.m. (and if you like cats, we think you'll be having a purr-fectly great time!).

Books Alive! performers rehearse for the big show, coming up in March.

Monday: Yoga for Kids will be offered at 4 p.m.
Tuesday: Textile Tuesdays take place between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the community room of Town Hall. Book Buddies is offered at 10:30 a.m. Books Alive! rehearsals take place at 3:30 p.m. in fellowship hall of Wallkill Reformed Church.
Wednesday: Mommy and Me meets at 10 a.m., followed by Toddler Story Time at 11 a.m. Books Alive! rehearsals take place at 3:30 p.m. in fellowship hall of Wallkill Reformed Church. The Kinder Art Club meets at 2:15 p.m. The Teen Anime Club gets together at 3:30 p.m. The Quilters' Circle has their meeting at 6:30 p.m.

 

The Vision of Wallkill placemaking group will be holding their second meeting tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the community room of Town Hall.
The agenda for this month's workshop includes planning and outreach techniques.
The next two meetings of the Vision of Wallkill will take place on March 22 and April 26. For more information, call Mary Lou at 895-3707, or email her at mlcarolan@rcls.org.

 

Aspiring writers ages 13 and up will be able to brush up on their skills during the Creative Writing Workshops being offered in March.
Fledgling scribes are invited to join us at 3:30 p.m. March 11 and 25. The sessions will start with some discussion and exercises to get those creative juices flowing and will hopefully become sources of inspiration to all.

In 1996 Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army attacked St. Mary's Catholic boarding school and stole 139 girls. The school's headmistress, a nun, pursued the group and bargained with one of the warlords for their release, securing it for all but 30 of her students.
Susan Minot's new novel focuses on what became of those girls, telling the story from the viewpoint of Esther, whose experience with the LRA echoes that of the thousands of children abducted by the rebels and subjected to unspeakable atrocities that included being beaten, raped, and forced at gunpoint to kill their own peers.
Minot breaks up the dark intensity of the narrative by delving also into the tale of Jane, a lonely reporter who's in the country to write about the plight of the rebels' young victims. Though Jane has some heavy problems of her own, they still pale in comparison to those of the people she's interviewing, but Minot's descriptive writing conveys the American's pain as deftly as that suffered by her Thirty Girls. In this way the novel is an exploration of suffering in its various guises, though it somehow manages to be so without leaving readers reaching for the Prozac. On the contrary, by the end of the book (or the middle), you're likely to fall to your knees in gratitude for all you take for granted.

This is the last weekend that tickets will be available for the chicken dinner fundraiser scheduled for Sunday, March 2, from 5-7 p.m. at the Wallkill/Shawangunk Clubhouse, located at 200 Birch Road in Wallkill.
This is part of the Troop 76 Eagle Scouts' efforts to benefit the Wallkill Public Library.
Tickets are $15 each (ages 5 and under get in for free) and are available at the library, or by calling Donna at 742-8461, or John at 742-0723. Meals to go are also available for purchase, but must be paid for by Monday.