Stop by the McKenney Library Tuesday May 4th at 6:00pm or the Hopewell Library Thursday May 6th at 4:30 pm to create your own work of art to give on Mother’s Day THIS Sunday. Make a card for your mom, grandma, aunt or any special person in your life!
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty
Explore Haunted Virginia in the Tri-Cities Area with author Beth Brown at the Friends of the Library, Dinwiddie Spring Meeting Monday, May 3, 2010 at 7 p.m. at the Dinwiddie Library.
Beth Brown is author of Haunted Battlefields: Virginia’s Civil War Ghosts, Haunted Plantations of Virginia, and Conducting a Paranormal Investigation. She is also co-Host of “The Paranormal View” on CBS Psychic Radio and the Para-X Radio Network. To learn more , visit her website at www.beth-brown.com
Free and Open to the Public
Door prizes and Refreshments !!
Bring your family and join the Appomattox Regional Library System Thursday, April 29th at 6:30 pm in Hopewell as we celebrate the end of National Poetry Month.
Come to the Hopewell Library to hear and read the winning poems from our First Annual Poetry Contest. We will have a variety of fun and silly poetry-related games and will be serving refreshments.
Families of all sizes and ages are invited and we hope to see you Thursday at 6:30 pm! If you have any questions please call ARLS at 804-458-6329.
The Hopewell Library is celebrating Earth Day this year with a free presentation entitled “Go Green, Save Green.” Two representatives from Dominion Virginia Power will discuss the Energy Gap, Dominion’s conservation initiatives, household energy use, and what we can all do to help. This will be a high-level yet informal discussion on the challenges we face today and how we can prepare for the future. Most importantly, those last two key areas will involve saving the environment and saving cash at the same time!
This program is scheduled for Earth Day, April 22. It will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the HMA meeting room at the Hopewell Library and will last around one hour.
Come to the Hopewell Library to celebrate National Volunteer week Friday, April 23 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Help stitch together blankets to be donated to John Randolph Medical Center’s chemo and dialysis patients and get to know more about Southside From the Heart, a group of knitters who meet at the library to create items for charity.
Join us for fun and contribute to your community! While you’re here, take some time to browse through volunteer resources on a special display as well as in the Nonprofit Resource Center. For more information, contact Shari Henry at shenry@arls.org.
Also, don’t forget to check out my regular review of NonProfit Picks on the Library Blogs.
Before launching into his 77 ways to recruit volunteers, Dr. Wittich writes, “Much of what corporate America has learned about finding the right person for the right job has led to a collection of best practices and it is our intention to help you locate these practices and to apply them to your volunteer setting.” This tall order is largely accomplished in this short book. This 92-page book is broken into 77 one-page vignettes, each covering a simple and accomplishable task relating to volunteer recruitment and management. Topics range from “go where they are” and developing a recruiting plan to garnering commitment and understanding why people volunteer. If you struggle with finding and managing volunteers, this brief treatise may be just the boost you need. Check it out.
What’s your most successful volunteer recruitment story?
The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone.
Michele Young-Stone is scheduled to visit the Hopewell Library on July 29, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. to lead a discussion of her debut novel as part of our Adult Summer Reading Program.
The good weather brought green leaves, pollen and some big changes to the site. The site is now completely fenced in for safety. These images show why. The excavation for the foundation is underway and the site is very active right now. There are lots of machines, lots of holes and ditches, piles of construction materials , and plenty of mud.
Get ready for next week’s Earth Day with a recycled craft for youth at the Hopewell Library.
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