Upcoming Events

MAR. 7—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

MAR. 9—MYSTERY BOOK

CLUB (6:45 PM)

MAR. 14—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

MAR. 15—SAVING SADIE

(2:30 PM)

MAR. 22—FRIENDS OF THE

LIBRARY (6:30 PM)

MAR. 23—LEGO CLUB (3:30

PM)

MAR. 24—INTERVIEW WORK-

SHOP (1:00 PM)

MAR. 27—SOAPS & SALTS

(6:00 PM)

MAR. 29—AFTERNOON MOVIE

(1:00 PM)

MARCH STORYTIMES 2

FEATURED CHILDREN’S BOOK

2

FRIENDS MAKE AN IMPACT

2

JUNE’S BOOK REVIEW 3

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3

WELCOME KRIS 3

AT THE LIBRARY IN FEBRUARY

4

Inside this issue:

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R U T H C U L V E R C O M M U N I T Y L I B R A R Y N E W S

Prairie Reader

Monday, March 27, 6:00 p.m.

Learn how to make your own melt and pour soaps and Epsom bath salts at the library. All supplies and tools will be provided. Space is limited so register now! This event is open to adults only and is sponsored by the Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library. Contact

Charlene at 643-8318 with questions.

Photos are for example only; actual de-

signs will vary.

Soaps & Salts for Adults

Spring Break Movie

Wednesday, March 29, 1:00 p.m.

Join us for a spring break movie. We're showing Sing, newly released on DVD. Movie is rated PG. We'll also serve pop-corn from the Bonham The-atre. Children 6 & under must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Disco Fries

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. Make your own version of Disco Fries at the library. What are Disco Fries? For this event, they are French fries with a bunch of top-pings.

Stop-Motion Movies & Ozobots

Tuesday, March 14, 6:30 p.m. We'll have our new Ozo-bot robots for you to pro-gram and stop-motion animation kits for you to make short movies.

Teen Tuesdays are especially for grades 6-12. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.

Teen Tuesdays

Wednesday, March 15, 2:30 p.m.

Meet Sadie, and her mom, Joal. Joal has written a book about all the challenges Sadie has faced and how her high spirits and hard work have helped her overcome! This program teaches how ac-ceptance of people and animals with special needs will hopefully make this a kinder, gentler world. Please note! A six minute video on bullying will be shown at the beginning. Due to the graphic nature of some parts of the film, parental guidance is advised. Children 6 & under must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at

643-8318 with questions.

Saving Sadie

Save the Date:

The Friends of the Library Team Trivia Challenge will be held April 22! Visit www.pdslibrary.org/

trivia_challenge for details!

Friday, March 24, 1:00 p.m.

Join us for a FREE comprehensive interview work-shop presented by Straight Forward. This work-shop will include a detailed discussion on how to create a sterling resume and cover letter, as well as proper interview etiquette. This workshop will help set your interview skills a cut above the competition, and teach you how to customize your skill set to your de-sired professional con-quest. Contact the library at 643-8318 with ques-tions.

Interview Workshop

Enjoy storytimes held in

the library’s community

room! Traditional sto-

rytimes will be held

Tuesdays and Thurs-

days at 10:00 a.m.

Beth will share stories,

snacks, music and more

with your child. Musical

s torytimes (extra

songs, no craft or

snack) will be held

Fridays at 10:00 a.m.

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Fridays at 8:15 a.m. B o u n c i n g Babies is a storytime for infants through age 24 months. Beth will share songs, fingerplays and stories. This is a great way to bond with your baby, meet other kids at the same stages, learn valuable pre-reading activities, develop life-long learners and socialize with other parents and care-givers at the same time!

No Bouncing Babies 3/10!

Bouncing Babies March Storytimes

Schedule: Youth Art Month!

We’ll have a weekly craft (Tuesdays and Thursdays)

to celebrate Youth Art Month.

Feb. 28, Mar. 2, 3 Spots & Dots

Mar. 7, 9, 10 NO STORYTIME

Mar. 14, 16, 17 Let’s Draw!

Mar. 21, 23, 24 Let’s Paint!

Mar. 28, 30, 31 Mixed Media

Winter Weather Policy: Programs are cancelled if

school is cancelled.

NEWS & NOTES

Register at the front desk

to read to Buddy, a miniature Goldendoodle,

Wednesday, March 22. Appointments of 15 minutes are available between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

P.S. Storytime continues after traditional storytimes on Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thanks to our Friends of the Library, we will be revealing some new BIG toys in March! March is Youth Art Month. Watch for displays in the lobby and Children’s area and our new tree mural with art from youth in the Sauk Prairie Schools.

PLEASE SAVE: Ms. Beth needs clear, empty water bottles with lids and empty Folgers coffee cans, also with lids, for an April event.

Since we’ll be featuring books about dif-ferent techniques of art in March, Beth will be sharing a book that is actually on the “READ-ON WISCONSIN” list she is on the panel for this year. Maybe Something

Beautiful: How Art Transformed a N e i g h b o r h o o d written by F. Isa-bel Campoy and Theresa Howell and illustrated by Rafael López, is based on a true story in San Die-

go. The people of a community, along with an inspirational girl, Mira, and an artist (muralist), transform a drab, gray neigh-borhood into a colorful work of art! The jacket cover encourages all to “Pick up a paintbrush and join the celebration!” We will and we’ll paint in storytimes the week of March 21st!

Featured Children’s Book

Thursday, March 23, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

The monthly Lego Building Club continues on the fourth Thursday of the month in March. Drop-in between 3:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to build with the legos provided. Build whatever you want, name it, take a picture and display it in the li-brary display cases. Duplos are available for younger children. However, children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

LEGO Building Club

Friends Make an Impact in 2017

The Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library are excited to provide a gift of $9,000 to support special library initiatives in 2017. Pictured is Will Tank, Friends of the Library Presi-

dent, presenting a check to Meagan Statz, Assis-

tant Library Director.

The annual membership meeting of the Friends of the Library will be held in the library commu-nity room Wednesday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m. All Friends members and those interested are welcome to attend. Election of officers will take place; all members are eligible to vote. Open-ings on the board are anticipated due to a recent expansion in size. Please contact Jennifer at 643-8318 if you are interested serving or learning more. The Friends Board meets 6 times

per year.

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June’s Book Review

The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan

Told through journals and let-ters, this debut novel is set in the fictional village of Chilbury, England, in the county of Kent. It takes place during six months from March 1940 to Septem-ber 1940. Most of the men of the village have left to fight the war. When the vicar disbands the church choir because there are

no male voices, the women of the choir refuse to let that hap-pen. Primrose Trent, a music professor, helps organize the ladies’ singing group. In the group are Kitty Win-throp, age thirteen, and her sister Venetia, eighteen. They are the daughters of the Briga-dier whose only son has just died in the war. The rich bully is willing to do almost anything to insure his wife’s coming baby is a boy.

Also in the choir is Mrs. Tilling who is a widowed nurse and whose son is going to war soon. Living at the Winthrop mansion with the sisters is Silvie, a ten-year-old Jewish evacuee. Then there is Edwina Palty, an un-scrupulous midwife who is in-volved in an illegal deal with the Brigadier. This book shows how the wom-en of the village face the war bravely and highlights how music may heal.

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

The story begins in 1962. On a rocky

patch of the sun-drenched Italian coast-

line, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in

daydreams, looks out over the incandes-

cent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies

an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision

in white, approaching him on a boat. She

is an actress, he soon learns, an American

starlet, and she is dying.

And the story begins again today, half a

world away, when an elderly Italian man

shows up on a movie studio’s back lot—

searching for the mysterious woman he

last saw at his hotel decades earlier.

What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply

human, roller coaster of a novel, span-

ning fifty years and nearly as many

lives. From the lavish set of

Cleopatra to the shabby

revelry of the Edinburgh

Fringe Festival, Walter in-

troduces us to the tangled

lives of a dozen unforgetta-

ble characters: the star-

struck Italian innkeeper and

his long-lost love; the heroi-

cally preserved producer

who once brought them to-

gether and his idealistic

young assistant; the army

veteran turned fledgling

novelist and the rakish Richard Burton

himself, whose appetites set the whole

story in motion—along with the hus-

bands and wives, lovers and

dreamers, superstars and los-

ers, who populate their world

in the decades that follow.

Gloriously inventive, constant-

ly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is

a story of flawed yet fasci-

nating people, navigating the

rocky shores of their lives

while clinging to their improb-

able dreams.

--Summary from book

description

Book of the Month

Please welcome Kris, our newest staff member. She started at the library in January and you’ll find her at the front desk a couple evenings a week. In her own words, here’s a brief introduction. I retired from the Wisconsin State Journal editorial page in 2014 after 19 years at that newspaper, follow-ing 15 years at the Lodi Enterprise, for a total of 34 years in journalism. I grew up in Milwaukee, but moved to the Lake Wisconsin area when I began college at UW-Madison. I live with my husband in rural Lodi. Our son and his wife live in Chicago. He’s a film producer, and his first feature

film, Uncle John, was partly filmed in the Sauk Prairie and Lodi area. I enjoy biking, travel, crochet and other needlework and reading, es-pecially mysteries. My favorite place in the world the world is Door Coun-ty. I’ve a l w a y s wan ted to work in a li-brary, so I’m very exc i ted to be here!

Thursday, March 9, 6:45 p.m.

The library’s Mystery Book Club will discuss mys-

teries by Mel Starr in March. Choose a title of

your own or select one from the display in the

library. New members are always welcome! Con-

tact June at 643-8318 with questions.

Mystery Book Club Welcome Kris!

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Prairie du Sac, WI 53578

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R U T H C U L V E R C O M M U N I T Y L I B R A R Y N E W S

Phone: 608-643-8318

Web: www.pdslibrary.org

Jennifer Endres Way Director

Meagan Statz Assistant Director

Beth Hays Youth Services

At the Library in February Thank you to David Pendleton for a great performance at the library February 25 and to River Arts Inc. and the Arts Mid-west Touring Fund for making it

possible!

At the left, David is shown with Stan Theis and puppet Aunt

Tilly.

At the right, David is shown with Anna Francour. She is being the puppet, David has controls and

is singing "I'm a little teapot".

Thanks to Sondra Weiss and Courtney Richards for their co-leadership in the

Crazy 8s Math Club this winter. We had 16 children who attended and enjoyed the crazy fun based on math concepts. Interested in a future class? Share with

Beth and we will get one planned for late 2017/early 2018!

Thank you to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring our jewelry class for adults held February 21!