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Summer Reading Party - 2009

It is always hard to get pictures of the madness that is our Summer Reading Party.

Ventriloquist Bruce Weaver visited the library

Summer Reading kicked off on July 7th, 2009!

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3rd Annual Poetry Contest Winners

1^st PLACE WINNER:

Adult Category (ages 18 and up)

Time to Let You Go

by Valerie Abbott

It’s oh so sad that God decided to take you in his arms tonight-

He’d concluded that your lifetime journey had to come to a close and then showed you his beautiful light.

You closed your eyes as you whispered your final good-bye and to Heaven’s gate you soared-

No longer are you present here on this Earth, but instead have found yourself at God’s door.

The Angels were there to welcome your presence and quickly measured you for your wings-

Then they held you close and sang for you, as the church bells loudly did ring.

But, while you’re in Heaven, and peaceful and content, your family still grieves for you-Please know that even though you’re in a better place, we will never stop loving you!

So now it is time for us to reminisce on how you have blessed us all-

You helped us to face adversity and through troubling times we were able to stand so tall.

So, yes, we will shed some tears, but we will also remember the good times, too-

Where once we were able to spend some quality time together, we now have only memories of you.

And although your life has now ended, another journey for you has begun-

God chose this new path for you to take, so who are we to judge?

But a place in our hearts is where you will stay and from there forever grow-

We love you and wish you only the best, but it’s now our time to let you go!

1^st Place Winner

Teen Category (ages 13-17)

Days

By Brittany Farley

Age 17

On this day, one day among many,

You sit and think about what you may do.

Chill with friends, clean your room.

But this day may not be like normal days.

Everyday is different in its own way.

No one’s day is the same as someone else’s.

Some may be happy, some sad;

Some you may not know what they are.

Days can be short or long.

Boring or fun.

They can be what you want them to be.

But you may not always know what you want.

The day moves along for ever and ever,

But when night comes, it seems too short.

Night and day,

Dusk and dawn, are they all the same?

1^st Place Winner

Juvenile Category (ages 12 and under)

Earth

By Corey Carpenter

Age 11

Earth is very colorful

With birds, bees, and trees,

Men and beasts, birds and plants,

They thrive and come alive on it

They go through storms together

Earth is wondrous and unique

Just spins and spins

Never stopping

Honorable Mention

Teen Category

Recognizing theGreat

By Kenneth Douglas

Age 14

The things I see

While I forget to remember

Why great things happen

Without being asked

A cat that stopped at crosswalks

When I stopped

To a friend that played well with others

While I watched in the wind

For the things I forget

to remember

of all

that I love to remember.

Honorable Mention

Juvenile Category

Wedding Bells

By Alyssa Garner

Age 9

I’m a flower girl walking down the aisle,

smiling a pretty smile.

The bride takes one step then she pauses before taking another

so I think to myself, this will take her all day.

After what seems like two hours,

it is finally coming to an end.

My mom tells me this is the moment I should not miss…

but it was really gross because I saw them kiss!

Meet local teen fantasy author, K.E. Bruder

Thursday, April 23, 2009
6:30PM - 9PM Meet local teen fantasy author, K.E. Bruder
Local author, from right here in Shortsville, will be in the library all evening signing copies of her first novel, The Tir Nan Og chronicles : the curse of the lost onyx. Bruder, who is just a teenager herself, has been autographing at Borders in Victor and Barnes & Noble in Pittsford and now at RJCL. The novel is about a girl named Elisabeth O'Reilly who grew up being told of a mythical land called Tir Nan Og and its ten towns. Years later she finds out the fairy tales are real.

3rd Annual Red Jacket Community Library Poetry Contest

To enter you must first write an original poem, then put your name, age and phone number on the BACK. Finally, submit the poem to the library by May 4th. You may send your entry by mail or drop it off at the library. One entry per person. All ages are welcome to submit. Poems will be posted in the library and judged by our patrons.

Prize categories will be:

Adult (age 18 and up),

Young Adult (ages 13-17), and

Juvenile (ages 12 and under).

Prizes will be given at an Awards Ceremony and Open Mike night to be held at the Ice Cream Shoppe & Coffee Café, 9 North Main St., Manchester on June 2 at 7PM.

More Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras madness pictures

On Feb 24 we hosted a great Mardi Gras concert which was attended by about 45 people.

Oscar Winners—Saturday at the Movies

On Saturdays, through March 28, the library will show films from this year’s Oscars. Featuring our comfy chairs! 2PM.
February 28: Blindness
March 7: The Secret Life of Bees
March 14: Vicky Christina Barcelona
March 21: Happy Go Lucky
March 28: Milk

Book Discussion Series @ Red Jacket Community Library

Our next book discussion will be Thursday, Feb, 26th @ 7PM

We will talk about The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination.

Mardi Gras Concert - February 24th @ 6:30PM

Join us for our annual Fat Tuesday concert and free celebration as we host the Alfred St. John Trinadad & Tobago Steelband. Free beads for all! C'mon, like you have anything else to do and you know you wanna reason to get out of the house. It's mid-February, you have cabin fever, and the Library is so close; it won't even take much gas.

The Shack by William P. Young BOOK DISCUSSION: Thursday, Jan. 29 @ 7PM

BOOK DISCUSSION: Thursday, Jan. 29 @ 7PM

The Shack by William P. Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?"

Mid—Winter 2009 Book Discussion Series
@ Red Jacket Community Library
Over the course of the next four months, January through April, we will explore the concept of FAITH. How does one learn to have faith? Isn’t faith just for the simple minded? Does logical thinking allow faith?

One of the “great” thinkers of our time, Archie Bunker, said: “"Faith is something you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe." While skeptic Richard Dawkins is quoted as saying: “Faith is one of the world's great evils."

What do you think? What will you think after reading and discussing the four novels chosen for our Mid—Winter Community Book Discussion Series?