Friday, August 31st 2-5pm! Family Fun Fridays @the Visalia library!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!
Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!
When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm
Movie @ 2pm & 4pm: The Pirates!: Band of Misfits
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program) *Parents must stay with children under the age of 14.
*No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times. Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Mystery Readers' Book Group, September 19

The next Mystery Readers' Book Group will meet on September 19 at 6:30pm at the Visalia Library (upstairs, in the "blue" meeting room).

The subject for September is any new-to-you mystery.  You may read any favorite author’s book that you haven’t had time read, or any author who is new to you.

For more information, please contact Sheryll at 713-2709.

Friday, August 23rd 2-5pm! Family Fun Fridays @the Visalia library!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!
Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!
When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm
Movie @ 2pm & 4pm:Walt Disney's Oliver and Company
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program) *Parents must stay with children under the age of 14.
*No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times. Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Join us on September 12th for a class on how to download the library's selection of eBooks and audiobooks. Instruction will be given on how to download these materials for each available format. The class is held from 6:30 to 7:30 in the computer lab at the Visalia Library.

Friends of the Tulare County Library Meeting, September 13

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, September 13, at 7 PM in the library's upstairs (blue) meeting room. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Independent Film Series Resumes September 20

The Visalia Library's Independent Film Series resumes on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6:00 PM, with the film Seven Minutes In Heaven.

Synopsis:
Galia, a young woman from Jerusalem, and her boyfriend Oren board a local bus. The bus explodes, leaving Oren in a coma and Galia with severe burns and memory loss; she lacks memory of the day of the terrorist attack and the days leading up to it. The film begins one year after the attack, upon Oren's death. As Galia undergoes physical and mental therapy, she attempts to stitch together the shattered fragments of her life and soul. A necklace sent to her from an unidentified source sets her off on a journey to find the missing pieces of the puzzle from that fateful day.


Israel | 2009 | Drama-Thriller | in Hebrew w/ English subtitles

Author Reading at the Three Rivers Library

On Thursday August 23rd at 6:30 pm please join us at the Three Rivers Library, where three authors will read from their works set in Three Rivers. This is a free event open to the public.

Melissa Clark is an author, television writer and college instructor. "Swimming Upstream, Slowly" (Broadway Books) was chosen as a Target Breakout Book in 2006. She created the animated television
show, "Braceface" which starred the voice of Alicia Silverstone and has written scripts for "Rolie Polie Olie", "Sweet Valley High", among others. Her new novel, "Imperfect," was written in part during a visit to Three Rivers. She lives in Los Angeles.

Dalan Smith was raised ranching, farming and enjoying horses in a small southern Idaho community, obtained a degree in management from the University of Utah, then spent several years successfully climbing corporate ladders in Utah and California before choosing to be a self-employed ranch manager, entrepreneur, and real estate broker. He enjoys living with his wife, Judy, on the South Fork. His memoir "Bill & I" is about building the Shatner Ranch.

Bill Haxton has had numerous poems published, as well as magazine articles, 500 episodes of the public radio program This Day in America, and "The Report to the United States Congress" on the condition of education in the Republic of the Marshal Islands, which he considers to be one of his best works. As a founder of the Three Rivers Performing Arts Institute he brought an annual classical music series to our town, as well as hosting Concert on the Grass. He and his wife Anne live on Dinely Drive. Bill's going to read poems inspired by Three Rivers.

Christina Lynch (emcee) is a television writer and novelist who lives on the North Fork with an assortment of animals. Her novel"City of Dark Magic," written with Meg Howrey under the pseudonym Magnus Flyte, will be published in December by Penguin Books.

The next ELF (Early Learning For Families) event will be held September 7, 2012 at 9 am,10 am, 11 am and Noon.  This month we will read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.

Learn more about this and other Literacy Center programs by visiting the Literacy Center web page.

First Tuesday Book Club, September 4

The next "First Tuesday Book Club" will meet on September 4 at 6:30 pm in the blue meeting room. This month we are reading Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail  by Cheryl Strayed.

Book summary: Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State--and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than "an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise." But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Literacy Advocate Award Recipient Honored

HHSA managers and team members congratulate Phonemany Loubandith on receiving the HHSA/Literacy Award.  Pictured (l to r) are:

Porterville District Office Manager Sylvia Nacianceno,  Martha Perez, Aleyda Montenegro, Arselia Mena, Brandi Hopper, Sharris Clark, Terry Anderson, Fanny Cervantez, Rufino Orong, award recipient Pon Lounbandith, Cynthia Natzke, Tessy Silva, TulareWORKS Division Manager Donna Ortiz and Maribel Brawley.

 Phonemany Lounbandith, Self Sufficiency Resource Specialist for HHSA’s Porterville District Office, received the Literacy Advocate award yesterday.

 TulareWORKS Division Manager Donna Ortiz presented the quarterly award on behalf of HHSA and the County Library’s Read to Succeed Literacy program. The honor was designed for HHSA counselors and specialists who have referred their clients to a joint program developed by HHSA and the Library Literacy Center.  This is the second time Ms. Lounbandith has received the award.

The program is designed to better equip HHSA clients in finding and keeping employment.  It is unique in its focus.  The Literacy Center provides one-on-one tutoring, which is particularly successful with individuals who do not thrive in a classroom setting.  At the same time, HHSA counselors such as Ms. Lounbandith make sure clients have the practical necessities, such as child care or bus tokens, to ensure their participation.

In addition to Ms. Ortiz, the presentation today was attended by Sylvia Nacianceno, HHSA Porterville Office Unit Manager; Win Doyle, HHSA/Literacy Coordinator, and the staff of the Porterville Office. 

Over 275 referrals have been made to the program by HHSA staff from the five TulareWORKS offices in Tulare County.

Friday, August 17th 2-5pm! Family Fun Fridays @the Visalia library!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!! Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!
When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm
Movie @ 2pm & 4pm: Madagascar 2 :Escape 2 Africa
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program)
*Parents must stay with children under the age of 14.
*No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times. Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Preschool Storytime and Toddler Time will be taking naps in August

Preschool Storytime and Toddler Time will be taking their yearly naps in August. We will resume on Tuesday, September 4th at 10am with Toddler Time and Wednesday, September 5th at 10am with Preschool Storytime. ZZZzzzzz...