Honor family and friends, commemorate memories and events, or publicize your organization with an engraved flagstone to be placed in the Carnegie Library Public Garden. Flagstones are available in two sizes: a 6-inch by 12-inch stone ($125) or a 12-inch by 12-inch stone ($230). For more information, contact Dee Fowler at dfowler@ppld.org, or call 531-6333, x2205.
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Cast your vote to name the 2006 National Thanksgiving Turkey and alternate. President Bush will announce the winning names on Wednesday, November 22, 2006.
This year marks the 59th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation. Though live Thanksgiving turkeys have been presented intermittently to presidents since the Lincoln administration, the current ceremony dates to 1947, when the first National Thanksgiving Turkey was presented to President Harry Truman. |
A visit from Santa’s Reindeer is scheduled at the Monument and Palmer Lake Branches as well as Penrose Library in December! Children of every age are invited to pet live reindeer who will be visiting from the North Pole (via Whispering Winds Ranch). Bring an apple to feed them and a camera, too. Reindeer can be “flighty” and may only visit for an hour.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9 AT MONUMENT: arriving at 1:30
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16 AT PALMER LAKE: arriving at 10:30
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 AT PENROSE: arriving at 1:30
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Come to the East Library on Saturday November 18 at 3 p.m. to meet Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, the popular authors of some of today’s most successful science fiction and fantasy series, including Star Wars and Dune.
The husband and wife duo will discuss their books, the craft of writing, and will sign copies of their books. It’s all about the spice… |
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Triple-talent, Mara Purl, actress, producer and best-selling author of the Milford-Haven series, will talk about her books at a free program for all ages.
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It’s an educated guess, but we’re thinking that this month will be your last chance to see the wild turkeys that have been living in the Jimmy Camp Creek Open Space around the new Fountain Branch .
With its big windows in the reading area, the Branch is a great place to come read magazines and newspapers. You can check out a laptop or bring in your own and take advantage of our free wireless access. Come in and relax or talk turkey with the staff! |
Patrons and staff bid a fond farewell to Elaine Weseman, Lead Branch Assistant at the Ute Pass Branch , in mid-October. Elaine has retired and left the area after twenty-six years of service to the Pikes Peak Library District.
Filling the Lead Branch Assistant position is Lynn Harrison, who has been with PPLD for seventeen years. She began working as a Reference Librarian at the East Library and was the Adult Services Supervisor for five years. She then transferred to the Penrose Library and worked as the librarian for the El Pomar Nonprofit Resource Center. Lynn lives in Woodland Park with her husband and two dogs. She is happy to be working at the Ute Pass Branch because she loves living in the mountains and now she get to work there too!
Longtime patron Richard Guegler has also joined the Ute Pass staff as a shelving page. Please give Lynn and Richard a warm welcome when you see them at the Ute Pass Library.
Just a reminder that Tuesday, November 7 is Election Day. There are lots of hot button issues on the ballot this time around. Take a look at the Colorado Blue Book for 2006 State Ballot Information. PPLD does not endorse any issue or candidate, but we do strongly encourage everyone to get out and vote!
Author Cliff Chase’s reading planned for this evening at Colorado College has been cancelled by the author due to illness. We hope to reschedule this event in the very near future!
Novelist Cliff Chase will discuss his deeply moving and controversial best-selling work, WINKIE.
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When: Monday, November 6, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
Location: McHugh Commons, (above the Herb ‘n’ Farm Cafe, in the Western Ridge Housing Complex on the CC campus) Cost: Free |
WINKIE is one of the most talked-about books published this year. An 80-year-old teddy bear comes to life, begins to move and create–and gets hauled off to jail as a suspected bomber and charged with 9,678 counts of everything from treason to heresy! Come and hear why this best-selling novel is “not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews.)
Clifford Chase stunned the literary world with the 2006 release of “WINKIE,” his first novel, which has garnered rave reviews from editors and readers alike. “WINKIE” is difficult to categorize, with its audacious plot about a teddy bear who comes to life and is promptly arrested as a suspected terrorist; its deeply moving passages about the protagonist’s struggle to affect the world around him; and its satiric skewering of a society that has lost all sense of irony in its search for security. It’s a book you can’t easily forget. Chase, who had already made his mark as an editor and memoirist with his earlier books, “The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother,” and “Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade” will read passages from his new novel, which B ooklist called “a masterfully measured social critique.”
There will be a book signing after the reading.
Call (719) 389-6607 for disability accommodation, additional information or directions.
Sponsored by Colorado College, the National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship, and the Pikes Peak Library District.
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