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October 14, 2024

In this Issue


• Young Latino Leaders Panel

• Sewing Club: Pumpkin Masks

• Halloween Sale at Gold Mine Thrift

• This Week at the Library

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Staff Title Review: Atomic Habits

• Teen Book Beat: The Red Pyramid

• Ask a Librarian


See our full calendar here.

Above: The film G-DOG is about second chances and a charismatic visionary who launched the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the country. More here.

In the Spotlight

As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and in partnership with ProjecToolSuccess and the Crisis Hotline, the Library will host the 4th annual panel discussion celebrating and hearing from young Latino leaders in our community. The conversation will highlight the incredible work of local high school students, inviting them to share with us their visions for the Wood River Valley. More/register here.


5:00 p.m., Monday, October 14

Lecture Hall + Livestream

Sewing Club teaches basic hand sewing to kids through simple projects. Children must be at least 6 years old to participate. Come make a cat mask or own mask to tie around a pumpkin—no carving required. Supplies and a small pumpkin will be provided. Registration is required. More/register here.


Thursday, October 17

3:30 - 4:30 p.m., Children's Library

Find all manner of costumes, “get-ups,” masks, and accessories for the spookiest night of the year. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library. More here.


Through Thursday, October 31

Gold Mine ThriftDoors open at 10:00 a.m.

This Week at the Library

Story Time: Dogs


Monday, October 14

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Treehouse

Beginning Knitting


Monday, October 14

4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Foyer - Fireplace

Spanish Lunchtime Language


Tuesday, October 15

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Power & Energy Systems and Support to Communities

Dr. Ning Kang, Department Manager for Power and Energy Systems (PES) in the Integrated Energy and Storage Systems Division at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), will present an overview of INL and an introduction to her department and their work in the last decade to support various communities in their clean energy transition while boosting the resiliency of community energy systems. More/register here.


Tuesday, October 15

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Lecture Hall + Livestream

English Language Learning


Tuesday, October 15

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Paws to Read with Wynslow


Wednesday, October 16

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Read It and Eat! Book Club


Wednesday, October 16

3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Registration Required

Brown Bag Poetry


Thursday, October 17

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Nature Journaling


Six-week class series with artist Leslie Rego.

Registration required.


Thursday, October 17

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Idaho Room

G-DOG Film Screening


The film tells the entertaining, hilarious and unlikely story of how a white Jesuit priest became an expert in gang lives. Called G-Dog by his homies, Father Greg Boyle works by a powerful idea: “Nothing Stops a Bullet like a Job.” The 93-minute film will be introduced by its Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning director Freida Lee Mock. More here/register here.


Friday, October 18

4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall | In-person only

Wood River Writers'

October Writing Challenge


With special virtual guest Michael Mammay for a presentation and discussion

on character.


Saturday, October 19

10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Idaho Room

Valley Traditional Music Jams


Saturday, October 19

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

Upcoming Program Highlights

October 22: Open House at the Wood River Museum of History and Culture

October 23: Kenneth Lewis Lecture on Democracy: Echoes of Integrity

with Monica Church

October 28: Without Exception with Pam Houston

November 1: Tiny Art Submissions Due for kids and teens*

November 4: Tiny Art Show: Opening Reception

November 7: Fraud and Senior Financial Exploitation Prevention

November 7: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson

November 12: Hidden Crisis: Early Childhood Learning and Local Childcare

November 13: An Evening of PBS Arts "SARA" and "Leonardo da Vinci" with Idaho Public Television

November 21: Ernest Hemingway’s Best Friend: Introducing General Buck Lanham


*Advance Planning Required:

Tiny Art Submissions are due on November 1 for kids and teens. Contact the Children's Library for more information.


See our full calendar of events/register here.

Title Review: Library Staff

"Clear gives you concrete tools to build good habits and break undesirable ones (like, say, four-five Diet Cokes a day)."

Communications Manager Kyla Merwin recommends Atomic Habits by James Clear.


Sooner or later, anyone who spends much time with me will see a Diet Coke in my hand. I’m a self-confessed “Coke” addict. I love the stuff. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks.


According to James Clear in his best-selling book, Atomic Habits, the first question I need to ask myself is this: Do I want to be the type of person who drinks Diet Coke all day every day? Answer: Yes. Yes, I do.


Ergo, I will fail at any attempts to stop drinking Diet Coke - even though I know it's bad for me - because I cannot see myself as a non-Diet Coke drinker (yet).


At the core of Clear’s strategy is the notion that your habits shape your identity and visa versa. Put another way, to break an old habit or create a new one, you must focus on who you want to be rather that what you want to achieve.


Behavior that isn’t consistent with the self will not last, says Clear. The pull to act in a manner consistent with the person you see yourself as is very strong—stronger than the mere act of goal setting.


Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight “tooth and nail to maintain your habits,” says Clear...


Read Kyla's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.


Note: Atomic Habits is The Community Library's Book Club title for December 4. Learn more/sign up for the Book Club here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hi, my name is Advik. I love to read, write, bike, swim, and watch TV. For my Book Beat review, I read The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan.


The Red Pyramid, the first book in ‘The Kane Chronicles,’ follows a pair of siblings, Sadie and Carter Kane. Carter travels the world with his father, a brilliant Egyptologist and author. Sadie lives with her grandparents, getting a chance at ‘a normal life.’


On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, promising to “make things right.” But things don’t go as planned: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mystery figure who immediately entombs their father in an Egyptian sarcophagus and creates a fiery explosion.


After being saved from their Uncle Amos, who turns out to be a real magician, Carter and Sadie quickly find that the gods of Ancient Egypt are very much real, and the worst of them, Set, the god of chaos and evil, has a terrifying plan...


Read Advik's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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