portage district library november events

Novemberlibrary events & classes

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TWO YEAR OLD STORYTIME Thursday, November 1st, 8th, 15th, 29th 10:00 AM Age Group: INFANT/TODDLERInteract with your two year old to nur-ture a love of books. We will learn letters, sounds, new words and self expression through books, fingerplays and creative movement. (Designed for two year olds and younger siblings with their favorite adult.) You are invited to attend one sto-rytime session per week.No registration required.

PRESCHOOL STORYTIMEMonday, November 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th 10:00 AM Age Group: PRESCHOOLPreschool age children (ages 3 to 5) will build language skills while listening to stories, learning rhymes, moving to music, and learning the mystery letter of the week! These activities help build early literacy skills and a love of books, reading and literature. You are invited to attend one storytime session per week.No registration required.

MOTHER GOOSE STORYTIMEWednesday, November 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th 9:30 AM & 10:30 AM Age Group: INFANT/TODDLERThis special time is designed for children from birth to 23 months. Delight and stimu-late your baby’s senses with books, rhymes, and music. A developmentally appropriate playtime will follow.No registration required.

SATURDAY STORYTIMESaturday, November 10th 10:00 AM Age Group: PRESCHOOLYou and your child will actively listen to books, rhymes and participate in creative movement while building language and literacy skills. No registration required.

EVENING FAMILY STORYTIME: STORIES TO KNOW AND GROW

Age Group: TWO’S, PRESCHOOLChildren from 2 to age 6 (with their favorite adult) enjoy books, songs, rhymes and movement activities while building language and literacy skills. Sponsored by a Target Early Literacy Grant.No registration required.

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PAGE 7What’s Coming in December!

library hoursMonday – Thursday 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM

Friday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Saturday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Sunday 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

library boardBetty Lee OngleyLibrary Board Chair

Alisha SiebersLibrary Board Vice Chair

Michele BehrLibrary Board Trustee

Stephanie BrownLibrary Board Trustee

Annee DunnLibrary Board Trustee

Martha PachecoLibrary Board Trustee & Liaison to the Friends of PDL

Joe YantisLibrary Board Trustee

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programs & eventsNov 1-6

MUFFINS AND THE MARKET

Age Group: All AgesThis Morning Investment Discussion Group features informative market discussions, strong coffee, & yummy baked goods. Free-ranging talks may cover a new investment information source, ways to investigate a market sector, or a type of investment vehicle. An optional second hour has been added on the first meeting of the month where you can stay and participate in or lead an evaluation of a stock or other investment. It is led by 20-year veteran investment professional and MLIS Warren Fritz. First and third Thursdays.No registration required.

PORTAGE COMPUTER USERS CLUBThursday, November 1st10:00 AMAge Group: ADULTSDrop-in computer question and answer session.No registration required.

RESUME HACKS: A QUICK RESUME MAKEOVER

Age Group: All AgesYou have looked over some resume books, you have your resume together, and you don’t think you need a class—but it would be good to get somebody else’s opinion on this, particularly somebody knowledgeable. We can help! On the first Friday in February, take your lunch hour and come in. Bring your resume and we will look it over, especially with regard to proofread-ing, formatting, and language. Let us catch the errors, rather than a potential employer. If you have questions about your interview attire, you also have the option of wearing or describing that for our review as well. No registration required.

BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL: AN ART EXHIBIT BY THE PAPER GUILD MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTION

In the show Bold and Beautiful, The Paper Guild members will feature pieces expressing the huge range of creative possibilities that handmade paper and paper-related art forms provide. This group of local paper artists has recently opened its member-ship from handmade paper artists to paper artists in general, including collage artists, calligraphers, printmakers, painters, and so on.

FRAMED: AN ART EXHIBIT BY THE ALTERED SISTERSMEET THE ARTIST RECEPTION

The Altered Sisters take items like books, cards, shoes, frames, etc. that have outlived their purpose and alters them to create art. In the show Framed each artist will feature a well loved book or character and surround it with a re- purposed frame. You can be sure that each piece will be a unique interpretation of a favorite.

SUNDAYS LIVE: GUITARIST JIM BEEBE AND VOCALIST MARCI LINN

Jim and Marci have been steady performing musicians for over three decades. The music they play is very much steeped in the R and B and soul music of the 1960’s and 70’s. Their influences include Al Green, Ray Charles, Etta James, Carol King and Irma Thomas just to mention a few.

SBTDC-SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING

Age Group: AdultThis workshop provides an overview of how businesses can increase value through the development of a succession plan. Key topics include plan components, successor identification and skills development as well as plan implementation and communication guidelines.


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The training covers the key benefits and drivers which include: building organizational value and integrat-ing long-range organizational plans with employee career plans. Designed to illustrate the difference between developing a long term succession plan and the transaction of selling a business, this course helps business owners evaluate ownership transition options long before any unexpected events may force change. Registration required through MI-SBTDC. https://www.misbtdc.net/workshop.aspx?ekey=110320027 REGISTRATION REQUIRED

MEET THE CHEF: FUN EASY ENTERTAINING FOR THE HOLIDAYSWednesday, November 7th2:00 PM and repeated 5:30 PM Age Group: ADULTSHether Frayer, the Fresh Food Fairy, will show us how to prepare fun, healthy and festive dishes for holiday entertaining. Register by calling 329-4542 ext. 600. There is a $5.00 fee at the door.REGISTRATION REQUIRED

PORTAGE COMPUTER USERS CLUB

Age Group: ADULTSDrop-in computer question and answer session.No registration required.

SCORE: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Age Group: AdultWhat is social media? Do you know yet? Are you using it for your busi-ness? If not, you should come and participate in this discussion. Do your neigh-bors know what business you own? If not, you should take care of that before you come to this workshop. If they do, then come learn about what some successful

business are doing with social media to help drive leads to their business. This is the ultimate guerilla market-ing, and wow, what an impact it can have. If you don’t use it, your competitors could be gaining advantages that you will not be aware of until its too late. Come learn how to stay connected. Learn how to keep your global neighbors informed about your business.

Presented by Tom McKenna

Fee: $35; $30 for each additional person from the same company. Registration required through SCORE Kalamazoo Tel: 269-381-5382 [email protected] www.scorekazoo.orgREGISTRATION REQUIRED

INTERNATIONAL MYSTERY BOOK DISCUSSIONWhite Heat by M.J. McGrath

Age Group: ADULTSHalf Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her cor-ner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from the elders who rule her isolated com-munity on Ellesmere Island. When a man is shot and killed while out on an “authentic” Arctic adventure under her watch, the murder attracts the attention of police sergeant Derek Palliser. As Edie sets out to discover what those tour-ists were really after, she is shocked by the suicide of someone very close to her. She is determined to find a possible key to this connection-a search that takes her beyond her small village, and into the far reaches of the tundra. White Heat is a stunning debut novel set in an utterly foreign culture amid an unforgiving landscape of ice and rock, of spirit ancestors and never-rotting bones.

BUSINESS RESEARCH ESSENTIALS

Age Group: AdultAn introduction to business resources taught by Nicolette Sosulski, the PDL Business Librarian. If you are taking this as part of your work with the SBTDC, please register through them at (269) 387-6004. Otherwise, you may register through the library web page or at (269) 329-4542 ext. 600.REGISTRATION REQUIRED

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OPEN FOR DISCUSSION: A DROP-IN BOOK DISCUSSIONThe Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Age Group: ADULTSIn this novel magical prose meshes reality and fairy tale. It takes place in Alaska, a brutal place to home-stead, and especially tough for a couple who have never been able to conceive. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they catch sight of an elusive, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who seems to have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in the Alaska wilderness, life and death are inextricable, and what they eventually learn about Faina changes their lives forever.No registration required.

YOU AND YOUR MONEY

Age Group: AdultHaving a process for setting thoughtful and realistic goals and an active plan for guiding the spending decisions to achieve those goals is good money manners! It increases the probability of reaching our goals without getting derailed or experiencing unplanned negative consequences. In this third part of the series you’ll learn how to set goals using S.M.A.R.T criteria and develop a personal spend-ing plan to meet those goals. Many of our goals are better reached by growing our money; others by saving and preserving it. Examples on how to allocate your money to meet your shorter-term goals and to reach your longer-term goals will be presented. REGISTRATION REQUIRED

COMBAT VETERAN’S WRITING GROUP READING

Age Group: ADULTSTo commemorate Veterans Day, local military veterans who served in combat situations spanning from the beginning of WWII through the war in Iraq

will share their perspectives on various aspects of military life at a reading and panel discussion. The vets are members of the library’s Combat Veterans’ Writing Group, which was formed in fall 2008. Each vet will present one or two short pieces during the read-ing; a casual question and answer session will follow. Margaret von Steinen, the group’s writing coach, will serve as moderator. For more information, contact von Steinen at: [email protected]. No registration required.

BOOKED FOR THE HOLIDAYS TEA

Age Group: ADULTS Location: Stuart Manor Join Librarian Marsha Meyer from the Portage District Library for this exciting book exchange and tea party. Bring a favorite book that you’ve read and are ready to trade. Each person gives a two-minute presentation about why they loved the book. Names are drawn from a hat and each participant selects his/her new book in the order the names were drawn. This is a great way to discover exciting books to put on your “must read” list. Please advance register by calling 329-4522 ext. 600 or purchase on line www. portagemi.gov. REGISTRATION REQUIRED

MUFFINS AND THE MARKET

Age Group: All AgesThis Morning Investment Discussion Group features informative market discussions, strong coffee, & yummy baked goods. Free-ranging talks may cover a new investment information source, ways to investi-gate a market sector, or a type of investment vehi-cle. An optional second hour has been added on the first meeting of the month where you can stay and participate in or lead an evaluation of a stock or other investment. It is led by 20-year veteran investment professional and MLIS Warren Fritz. First and third Thursdays 9:00 AM.No registration required.


Age Group: ADULTSDrop-in computer question and answer session. No registration required.




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TEEN WEIRD CUPCAKES

Age Group: MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLCome try pizza cupcakes, or maybe taco, because everything’s better in a cupcake shape, right? Make your food portable, bite-size, and of course, yummy!REGISTRATION REQUIRED

ABC ACTIVITY TIME

Age Group: PRESCHOOLDrop in playtime including sensory activities, fine and gross motor skills, pocket charts, manipulatives and more. This is a time for your child to practice skills that will help them get ready to read! Open to preschool-ers with their favorite adult. The focus is for parents to participate in the learning process with their child while having fun!No registration required.

KALAMAZOO MACINTOSH USER GROUP (KMUG)

This drop-in group meets the third Satur-day of each month. Anyone may attend. The meeting begins with a presentation of a soft-ware program, computer or accessory. An experienced club member who has actually used the product gives the demonstration. Discussion and questions follow the presenta-tion. The meeting continues with a “Help Ses-

sion”. Experienced Mac users share their in-depth knowledge answering questions about any aspect of the Mac. Beginners on Mac computers are welcome.No registration required.

D-3: DANCE, DRAMA & DRAWING - CIRCUS, CIRCUS!

GRADE)Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Join us as we dance, act and draw about “the greatest show on earth.” Children will participate in 3 different activities of fun during this 1 and 1/2 hour program. We ask that all parents of preschool age children stay during the activities.REGISTRATION REQUIRED

LEGO BLOCK PARTY!

Age Group: ALL AGESCalling all young architects and en-gineers…you are invited to join us for LEGO building fun! LEGOS of various sizes will be provided for all ability levels. Preschool-5th graders are invited with their favorite adult.No registration required.

COMBAT VETERAN’S WRITING GROUP

Age Group: ADULTSThis biweekly writing workshop of writing poetry, essay or fiction for veterans who have been in combat is led by writer and Communications officer for the Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Margaret von Steinen. For more information, please e-mail Margaret at [email protected]. The series runs though December 11th. No registration required.


Age Group: ADULTSDrop-in computer question and answer session.No registration is required.

TEEN ADVISORY GROUP

Age Group: MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLJoin other teen leaders who volunteer to make the library a better place! We plan events, do long-term projects, and more.No registration required.

What’s Coming in December!Great Books Reading

& Discussion Group/FallDecember 2nd

The Epic of Gilgamesh, a play by Aeschylus

Overdrive/E-Reader AssistanceDecember 3rd

Helping setup your device to accept OverDrive Digital books

Winter Scenes: Library-Wide Multi-Artist Art Exhibit

December 5thArt and Music

Flying CarpetsDecember 6th

A reading, reflection and book signing by Hedy Habra

Resume HacksDecember 7th

A quick resume makeover

Friends of the Library Book SaleDecember 8th

Thousands of books for sale

Solo GalleryDecember 10th

Exhibit by Matthew Bell (Acrylic)

Evening Family StorytimeDecember 12th

Stories to know and grow

International Mystery Book GroupDecember 13th

Show and share book exchange

Kalamazoo Macintosh Users GroupDecember 15th

A “help session” by experience Mac users

Family Holiday EventDecember 18th

Learn and play with your child at our fun holiday festival

Grief Education & SupportDecember 21st

Support and information on how to cope during times of grief and loss

HOLIDAY CLOSINGDecember 24th

The library is closed all day

HOLIDAY CLOSINGDecember 25th

The library is closed all day

CLOSING EARLYDecember 31st

The library will be open from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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