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The Quarter Inch Quilt Club Library Bags for Sale

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I would like to extend a thank you to the The Quarter Inch Quilt Club for their generous donation of beautiful bags which they made specifically for the library to sell. There are several sizes, colors and designs with varying prices; great for your books, groceries or just your everyday purse.  The photos attached are only a small sample of this wonderful work done by these fantastic ladies.

Please stop in and check out these bags which will be on sale here at the library, and at the bookstore next door. I’m sure you will find one you will fall in love with!

TEEN FORTNITE CLUB

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Worcester-Schenevus Library will be starting a Teen Fortnite Club

Saturday, August 3rd, 1 – 3 pm will be our first Teen Fortnite Club.  

Join us for season 10!

We have 8 available computers which you will be able to play the game on, so space is limited.  If you are interested, please have your parent(s) sign the attached permission slip(click on the image below to access the file). 

Please bring your own headset.  We do have game controllers available for our PCs.

If you have a laptop which you can play the game on, bring it to the library and connect to our WiFi to join in.  

 

If you are interested in joining the Fortnite Club and playing at the library, you will need an Epic Games account.  To sign up is free, at epicgames.com

Be sure to sign up for your account before attending August 3rd.  

There are 6 computers left, so let us know soon if you plan on attending, and if you don’t have your own laptop!

Summer Reading Program Schedule

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Summer Reading Program Schedule

Week 1: Race to the moon!
Wednesday July 3rd, 1 pm 
Free movie—Mune: Guardian of the Moon
Craft activity: Moon Phases Wreaths
Fiday, July 5th, 5 pm
Craft Activity: Design your own T-Shirt Graphic – Bring a Blank T-Shirt, any color , and we will print your design on iron-on transfer paper which we will apply at the library
Saturday, July 6th, 5 pm
Magic The Gathering Deck Building Night—We will help you build your MTG decks and try them out.

Week 2: Galactic Tails
Wednesday, July 10th, 1pm
Free Movie—Spark A Space Tail
Craft Activity: Draw a space traveling animal
Friday, July 12th, 5 pm
Craft Activity: Draw your own comic book pages

Week 3: Monsters or Aliens
Wednesday, July 17th, 1pm
Free Movie—Monsters vs. Aliens
Craft Activity: Create an alien or monster with paper plates and various other materials!

Week 4: Coding Week
Wednesday, July 24th, 1pm
Free Movie—Big Hero 6
Craft Activity: Make Paper rockets
Using toilet paper or paper towel rolls we will make our own rockets!
Friday, July 26th, 5pm
Learn coding! Learn computer code to 
create a website or video games.

Week 5: Legos!
Wednesday, July 31st, 1pm
Free Movie— Lego Marvel: Guardians of the Galaxy
Craft Activity for Wednesday, July 31st
Fun and useful Lego crafts with old Legos!
Friday, August 2nd, 5pm
Lego building races!
Saturday, August 3rd, 5pm
Magic the Gathering Deck building

Week 6: Star Wars!
Wednesday, August 7th, 1pm
Free Movie—Star Wars: Force Awakens
Craft Activity: Free Star Wars Activity Books
Friday, August 9th, 5 pm
Star Wars Activities

Week 7: The Universe-Constellations
Wednesday, August 14th, 1pm
Free Movie—A Wrinkle in Time
Craft Activity: Constellations!
Friday, August 16th, 5 pm
Craft Activity: Universe paintings

Week 8: End of Summer
Wednesday, August 21st, 1pm
Free Movie—The Dark Crystal
Craft Activity: 1 minute stop action animations
Friday, August 23rd, 5pm
Let’s write your own stories!

August 27th—30th we ask that you turn in your reading records which you filled out through the summer with all of the wonderful books you read. 
Please write a paragraph on your reading record telling us about your favorite book you read, and you will receive a special prize.

All returned reading records will receive a prize, and extra prizes will be given out for the most books read in each category as follows; children ages 3—6, ages 7—12, ages 13—18, and adults.

We hope you all participate and have great stories to share with us about your reading adventures!

Saturday, August 31st, 5pm
Magic the Gathering competition to win great cards!

AmazonSmile

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Did you know, if you shop on Amazon.com through AmazonSmile, Amazon donates a portion of your purchase price towards a charity of your choice with no additional charge, you still get the same low prices. Worcester Schenevus Library set up a charity fund as Worcester Free Library. So the next time you shop on Amazon, please check out AmazonSmile and choose Worcester Free Library as your charity to support. Thank you!

Story Time

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Hello everyone, this Wednesday, June 12th, at 10 am is the last Story Time of the school year with Barb Golja. A new story time will start for the Summer Reading Program on Wednesday, July 3rd at 10 am, with Mercedes Ostrander. Have a great summer!

Computer Zone

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The Worcester-Schenevus Library would like to extend a thank you to the Pickert-Hikock Fund of the Community Foundation for South Central New York for providing the grant which allowed us to purchase the new patron computers for the library. With their generous funding, we were able to expand the number of computers available at the library.