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Thursday, Feb 9 and Saturday, Feb 11

Not one, but TWO drop-in Valentine crafting sessions–because you can never have enough craftiness at Valentine’s Day, can you?

• Thursday, February 9 from 3:30 – 4:30 pm
• Saturday, February 11 from 10:30 – 11:30 am

All ages welcome–if you can wield a glue stick, you are old enough to attend!  Enjoy a fabulous array of crafty items to make Valentines for your friends and family.  A combination of youth volunteers and local mamas Dana Hanson & Marlene Gibson will run the show.  (We’ll have some hot chocolate to be cozy & festive, too!)

Join the ACL youth writers every month in their club. The next meeting is this coming Saturday afternoon at 1:30.

At this meeting, the writers will be continuing their work on individual short stories that they started last time (or new ones if folks weren’t there last month).  We will focus on developing our characters and plot where the story might be going.

If you would like to join in – please email isadoraloftus (at) yahoo (dot) com.  We’re always looking for more writers to join our group!

We have two groups of youth co-hosting Halloween festivities at the ACL!  Our teenage youth volunteers will have Halloween craft projects for little ones (including a limited number of decorate-your-own-pumpkins!) and 5th graders from the Burr Organization of Youth Action (BOOYA) will host a bake sale fundraiser to help support cancer research. 

We have great Halloween books at the ACL available for borrowing and you might see some dressed up folks working the desk that day!  Please join us for a festive community building event at our beloved little library.

A fun and interactive workshop will be taught by students from Olin College of Engineering, and it will cover basic topics in mechanical structures and circuits. The Olin students will be teaching essential skills that they wish they had learned much earlier in life.
 
This project began as part of a class at Olin in which the students were tasked with the challenge of “changing the world” within three weeks. Since they all have a strong passion for sharing what they love to do, they formed a team to teach engineering concepts to kids.
 
Pre-registration is required!!! This workshop is open to kids ages 8-14.  A maximum of 15 kids will be enrolled on a first come, first served basis. The kids will then be divided into smaller working groups by age. To pre-register or to ask questions please email Lynn Slobodin

As always, we are so very appreciative of our shift volunteers at the library.  These fine folks donated their time and talents at the ACL over the month of September:
AnnaMaria Abernathy, Ginny Adams, Jessica Avery, Linda Barrett, Patricia Bottomley, Debbie Bowen, Susan Cassidy, Nancy Caulfield, Ellen Chu, Barb Day, Marlene Gibson, Lisa Ferrante-Walsh, Jill Greblick, Diana Fisher Gomberg, Barry Goldstein, Gail Grossman, Dana Hanson, Rosemary Hinteregger, Julie Huber, Lenna Kutner, Kirti Kusum, Celia Kwartler, Janet Linder, Amanda Loftus, Nancy Mazur, Liz Miller, Maren Oslund, Joy Rice, Jaye Schneider, Hannah Scott, Allison Sharma, Junko Shibuya, Lynn Slobodin, Jennifer Sulewski, Ed Sugrue, Martha Sweet, Beth Tierney, Alla Webster
Your name here???  We are looking for new volunteers: many ACL hands make for light work (very basic tasks, we train you on the job).  Please contact danakhanson@gmail.com to be added to our scheduling email distribution list.  Really, it’s only a matter of signing yourself up for an hour or two once a month–bring the kiddos for some family volunteering time!  (You were planning on coming in to borrow books anyway, weren’t you?)

The Auburndale Community Library is pleased to announce that the Boston Newton Marriott has renewed its financial commitment to support the ACL in its current two year license cycle.  The ACL relies entirely on donor contributions to pay our rent, purchase new materials, run special events, and continue general operations.  Many thanks to the Marriott!!!
We can never thank our sponsors enough, so we’d like to take this opportunity to thank our existing ACL sponsors: The Village Bank, Lasell College, Charles River Neighborhood Foundation, and Hotel Indigo/Bokx 109.  We are so thankful to our corporate/institutional sponsors!

Spilling Ink is meeting Sat. October 22nd at 1:30 (this month).  For the remainder of the school year, they will meet on the first Saturday of the month at 1:30.

Wednesday, October 12 — 7:30 to 9:00pm at the ACL

The NDCC Outreach Committee is continues its series called “Coffees with the Candidates” to help residents learn more about the potential 2012Democratic candidates for US Senate. Fresh off his walk around the entire state of Massachusetts, candidate Tom Conroy has agreed to be the next participant in this series.  This series will be open to all announced and likely Democratic candidates for US Senate, and the purpose is to help strengthen the entire Democratic field.

We know that most of our ACL patrons are such high-volume library aficionados that they use BOTH our library and the Newton Main/other Minuteman libraries.  Fabulous!  However, we need to gently remind our patrons that our ACL books can only be returned to our little community library.  (Sigh…we all miss the days when we could drop books here, there, everywhere!)

We graciously request that you to check borrowed library materials for the pink stars and ensure that the ACL books make it back to the ACL each time.  There is a 24 hour drop slot on Auburn Street, or you may always call the library and leave a message requesting materials to be renewed (617) 552-7158.  We appreciate that not having online renewals makes it hard to be as timely with returns as with other library networks…and we will continue to work with our patrons to make this a workable arrangement from both ends.  Thanks!