Thanks For Giving

Our Preschool Story Hour was extra-special this week, thanks to the Paxton Rotary!
Rotary Club members, Kathy Swan, Nancy Ecker, and Regina Stefanelli read holiday stories to the children and helped out with Thanksgiving theme activities. The Story Hour gang drew colorful turkeys and put together Harvest Blessing snack bags to share.

Preschool Story Hour

Librarians from Latvia

The Paxton Carnegie Library welcomed visiting librarians from Latvia along with representatives of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs. Latvia is located in northeastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Sweden and Russia. The librarians saw a Punch & Judy puppet show during Story Hour and made their own hand puppets to take home. After a tour of the library, they enjoyed lunch at the Tin Pan with Mayor Bill Ingold and Library Board President Flavel Heyman. Next, the librarians visited PBL High School, where they visited with Doug Anderson in the ag department, junior high librarian Mary Dulaney, and Dave Harber and Diane Mueller in the high school library.

Majestic Park in Downtown Paxton








(l to r:) Liga Masena, Iveta Ozolina, Vadla Ozolina, Flavel Heyman, Martins Logzdons, Barbara Ford, Bill Ingold, Antonina Girs, Anne Newman





"Punch & Judy" loses nothing in translation.

Liga Masena, Translator

Vadla Ozolina, Head of Library,
Broceni Municipality LIbrary









Puppet Workshop with
Latvian Librarians

Barbara Ford, Director and Distinguished Professor
and Katherine Eriksen, Training Coordinator
from the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs,
University of Illinois Library

Latvian Librarians

Iveta Ozolina
Director
Aluksne Town Library

Antonina Girs

Head of Library

Pededze Library

Martins Lagzdons

Manager

Kursisu Library-Information Center

Barbara Ford, director of the Mortenson Center, and the Latvian librarians tour the PBL High School Greenhouse.

The visitors meet with Mary Dulaney,

PBL Junior High Librarian.

The Latvian librarians learn about the PBL High School Library with Diane Mueller (left,) and

Dave Harber (right.)

Book Club

The Paxton Book Club meets at the library Tuesday, September 28th, at 6:30pm.
Now reading: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Story Hour

Preschool Story Hour begins Thursday, September 2nd! Parents, Grandparents, and Caregivers are invited to bring preschool children to Story Hour at the library each Thursday at 10am. Hear old and new stories, sing songs, visit with puppets, and try out simple craft projects at the library.

Box o' Max