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Register for Adult Events at the Multi-Library Every class in each series builds on Information Desk, on our Geocaching the previous class. website, or by phone at June 5-August 5 It is recommended to attend each 474-2447 [All Ages] class in the series. Prerequisite It’s time for the for introductory classes: Mouse 5th Annual Multi-Library and Keyboard proficiency. Geocaching Competition! Beginning Monday, June 5, Classes meet Tuesdays from Library patrons will be invited to 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Study use clues and geographic Room 2, upper level. Registration coordinates to find hidden is required and will open one week geocaches at participating area before the date of the class. Limit 5 The Adult Summer Reading . For each cache you find at program, “Reading by Design” a participating library, you earn a takes place June 5 – July 24, prize drawing ticket for a chance to Word 2013 2017. win a $25 VISA Gift Card. To be June 6: Introduction to Word 2013 How do you register for the eligible for the prize drawing, your June 13: Text & Pictures summer reading event? library card must be in good June 20: What’s Your Style-- 1. Stop by the Info Desk, standing. All ages welcome! Learning to Work with Styles & pick up your reading log. Register and obtain your official Themes 2. Choose a title from the clue card at the Information Desk reading jar. starting June 5th. PowerPoint 2013 3. After you read the , The competition ends Saturday, June 27: Introduction to bring your reading log to the August 5th, so let the adventure PowerPoint 2013 Info Desk. begin! July 11: Playing with Audio, 4. You will receive a small gift Videos, Transitions & Animations and a raffle ticket for a chance to win a Reading By Excel 2013 Design tote bag. July 18: Intro to Excel 2013 5. Choose another title from the July 25: Formulas & Functions reading jar. August 1: Analyzing Data in Excel This event is open to anyone 18 August 8: Using Pivot Tables and older. Microsoft Office Classes Winners for the tote bag will Beginning Tuesday, June 6 we Microsoft Office 2013 Special be announced on July 28, 2017. will be offering Microsoft Office Features Classes. The classes will be August 15 : Microsoft Office: Celebrate the end of summer grouped into 4 separate series. Across the Board--Features found reading at the Ice Cream Social in Excel, Word, & PowerPoint for all participants on The first three series will focus on August 22 : Microsoft Office: Thursday, July 27 specific programs offered in the Working Together from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. in Microsoft Office 2013 Suite. the Community Room. Sponsored by Friends of Lansing The last series will cover special Library features of Microsoft Office.

Page 2 LIMITED EDITION Adult Events Make It Class: Make It Class: “25 things I Love T-Shirt Bags About You” Friday, July 14 Friday, June 9 at 10 a.m. at 10 a.m. in the Community Room Mini Masterpieces: A Drawing in the Community Room Using regular playing cards, Workshop We will be making carry-all bags tags, and a ring we will make a Thursday, June 15 out of T-shirts. With a few snips little book telling what you love from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. and some knots you can make a soft about someone special in your in the Community Room carry-all bag that can be used to life. You might love their smile, Anyone can learn to draw, or hold books, groceries, or other or the way they tell jokes, or improve their drawing skills. In small items. Supplies will be even that they make you happy. this class, art teacher Christine provided. To attend this class you Bring a list of what you love, Thornton will teach you some must be able to use scissors and tie and get a head start on the "tricks" artists use when they knots. Anyone 18 and older may project. Supplies will be draw. You'll choose from dozens attend. Class is limited to 12. provided. Anyone 18 or older of famous art reproductions to Registration is required. may attend this class. copy and create your own small Class is limited to 12. scale "Mini Masterpiece" in Registration is required. colored pencil. Class is limited to 30. World Wide Knit Registration is required. in Public Day Create a Quote of Art: An Saturday, June 10 Dead Relatives Society Inspirational Painting Workshop Sat., June 17 from Thursday, July 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. from 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. on the Library Lawn Meets in Study Room 2. in the Community Room World Wide Knit in Public Day Come join us to get started on Create an was created in 2005 and is the your family tree. We meet once a inspirational largest knitter event in the world. month to research together. While "Quote of Art" to take home using Join us as we knit with hundreds you can use Ancestry and Fold3 permanent marker and watercolor of other knitters around the anytime the library is open, it is pencils. Different quotes and world on the same day! fun to work with others. This is a designs available to choose from, Bring your crochet or knitting very informal group where we or create your own from scratch. project and a lawn chair. Invite a share our challenges and Plenty of guidance is given, friend. Let’s see how many triumphs. yet creativity is encouraged. people we can invite and involve We have computers set up in the No painting experience required. in this special world-wide event. Study Room and spend time Class is limited to 30. talking about genealogy and Registration is required. working on our brick walls. Beginners and all experience levels are welcome as we work together. There is no meeting in July and August, but we resume meetings in September.

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Make It Class: All participants receive a 3-year Rich brings his talent as well as his Envelope certificate and a Mental Health rich background in music to lead us Mini-Books First Aid manual. as we sing along with him. To register, contact: He provides all of the materials. Friday, August 11 at 10 a.m. Lisa Guardiola, Community Bring your voice and a friend and in the Community Room Mental Health Trainer join us for a lively and In this class we will use Sertoma Centre, Inc. entertaining hour, singing along envelopes to make small books [email protected] with him. to hold tickets, receipts, notes, (708) 748-1951 ext. 405 and more. With a few envelopes, Or Lansing Library at Coloring Classes some string and a needle we will (708) 474-2447 Fridays: June 16, “sew” a tiny book that can fit in July 21 & Aug. 18 your pocket or purse. Anyone 18 Registration opens June 1, 2017. at 10:00 a.m. or older may attend this class. Space is limited to in the Community Room Class is limited to 12. 30 participants. Coloring is a wonderful way to take Registration is required. Registration required by it easy and create something Friday, August 4, 2017. colorful at the same time. If you *Funded by the Substance Abuse need to relax, this is the class for and Mental Health Services you. We supply all the materials. Administration (SAMHSA) of the Anyone 18 or older is welcome to U.S. Department of Health and attend. Mental Health First Aid Human Services. Training Community Round Saturday, August 12 Medicare 101 Table from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Wednesdays: Wednesdays: in the Community Room June 7, July 5 & Aug. 2 June 28, Sertoma Centre, Inc. and from 10:00 a.m. to July 26 Lansing Public Library Present a 11:30 a.m. & August 30 Free Training: Mental Health in the Community Room. from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. First Aid This is an educational workshop in the Community Room *- Inquire for CEUs presented by Stacey Weathers. Come express yourself at one of the What Participants Learn: Seniors will learn the basics of best-kept secrets of our active  Risk factors and warning Medicare and what resources are adult/senior programming! On the signs of mental health and available to them in their last Wednesday of each month, this substance use problems community. group will meet at the Lansing  Information on depression, Public Library as a discussion anxiety, trauma, psychosis Sing along with group. Meet other local community and substance use Rich members and engage in friendly  A 5-step action plan to help Mondays: discussions about current events. someone who is developing June 12, Stay in touch with the ‘cutting a mental health problem or in July 10 & edge’ and be part of stimulating crisis Aug. 14 conversation! Light refreshments  Available evidence-based at 10:00 a.m. will be provided. professional, peer and in the Community Room self-help resources Join us as we sing along with Rich Boban. Page 4 LIMITED EDITION Adult Events Adult Book Discussions Half Walk, Book discussions are open to anyone Half Talk Book Club who want to participate. Books are available at the Wednesdays: July 12-Aug. 30 Circulation Desk one month before each discussion. from 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. at Erfert Park Wednesdays: July 12-Aug. 30 Love to read? Love to talk? Want to walk? ‘Half Walk, Half Talk Book Club Join our walking book club. Every Wednesday, at Erfert Park starting July 12, we will meet at Erfert Park (18800 Burnham Ave, Lansing, IL 60438) Thursday, June 1 at 6:30 p.m. at 8:30 am for Half Walk/ Half Talk book club ‘Avid Reads’ in the Brick Room meeting. We will be blending three essential Shortest Way Home by Juliette Fay elements for brain health: mental, physical, and social activity. The first 30 minutes we will enjoy a Thursday, June 8 at 6:30pm. brisk walk along the path. Then, while we cool ‘Reality Check’ in the Brick Room down, we will participate in a lively discussion on a Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen specific section of the book. Each book will be by Mary Norris broken into four sections and we will discuss one section each week. Thursday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m. Starting July 5 you will be able to check out the ‘Murder & Mayhem’ in the Brick Room book and pick up a reading schedule at the The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark Circulation Desk. ‘Avid Reads’ will not meet in July. Monday Morning Movies Pick up the August selection starting July 6. Mondays: July 24 & August 28 at 11:00 a.m. in the Community Room Thursday, July 13 at 6:30 p.m. Movie titles are posted on the Library bulletin boards. ‘Reality Check’ in the Brick Room Sponsored by Friends of Lansing Library The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer Ancestry and Fold3 Have you seen the commercials for Thursday, July 20 at 6:30 p.m. Ancestry and wondered about your ‘Murder & Mayhem’ in the Brick Room story? The library subscribes to The House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke Ancestry library edition. It is available on all the Thursday, August 3 at 6:30 p.m. public computers at the library. This particular ‘Avid Reads’ in the Brick Room resource has to be used inside the library, and staff What the Lady Wants by Renee Rosen can help you get started. Thursday, August 10 at 6:30pm. We also subscribe to Fold3, which has primarily ‘Reality Check’ in the Brick Room military records. Fold3 can be accessed from your Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold home via the website and your library card. Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Join the millions of others finding their family Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly history by doing genealogy. Thursday, August 17 at 6:30 p.m. Questions? Visit the Info Desk for help. ‘Murder & Mayhem’ in the Brick Room Fer-de-lance by Rex Stout

LIMITED EDITION Page 5 Friends of Lansing Library Group News You’re Invited! Raffles! Calumet River We invite you to join Friends of Congratulations to Mario Bravo, Creative Writers Group Lansing Library. Membership is winner of our Kindle bundle. 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $5 per year. One membership in the Community Room perk is early admission to all our Enter to win a Do-It-Yourself Age 18 & up. book sales! Memberships may be basket with tools and items to New writers are always welcome. purchased at the monthly book help you accomplish household Saturdays: June 3 & 17, July 1 & 15, sale or at the Circulation Desk chores. Each ticket is $1. August 5. anytime. Drawing is Monday, June 19. The popular knitting & crochet Friends Meetings are held Friends of Lansing Library circle “Purls of Wisdom” meets at every other month. Upcoming Book Sales the library. Bring your own meeting: July 10 @ 6:30 p.m. supplies. Beginners always We invite you to attend a Members Only 9 a.m.-10 a.m. meeting and join us as we work General Public welcome! Meets upstairs in the together to support the library. 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. library. Friends memberships are available at the door. Wednesdays Help support our Friends who 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. support the library with Saturday, June 10, 2017 June 7 & 21 purchases that are beyond the Saturday, July 8, 2017 July 5 & 19 library’s budget. Saturday, August 12, 2017 August 2 & 16

Thank You! Fridays We had a wonderful, well- 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. attended concert series. Friends June 16 & 30 thank all who attended and also July 14 & 28 all who purchased our after- August 11 & 25 concert Sweet Treats lovingly made by our Friends’ bakers. The Lansing Business Women’s Association is Coupons No Longer Needed Here cutting and sorting Thank you to all for faithfully Come coupons for our military saving coupons for Friends, but families overseas. The we no longer need “Bed, Bath & the coupons can be used 6 Beyond” coupons. Brides! months past the expiration date at their commissary. Block Party Mark your calendar for the Lansing The Friends Book Sale room will Join us on the first Monday of Historical Society be open during the Block Party. every month at the Lansing Public Get great buys at $1 for Museum exhibit Library upstairs in the Library. books, 50¢ for featuring historic We meet 9:30 a.m. – Noon and , and children’s books wedding dresses. 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Bring your 4 for $1. Friends will also be Coming in June! scissors and any coupons you may have. selling pop, water and Mancino’s pizza near the upper entrance.

Page 6 LIMITED EDITION For more information, visit the Youth Dept., Youth Events or call 474-2447 Morning Storytime Pajama Storytime Eight week session starting the Wednesdays @ 6:30 p.m. week of June 5 and ending the June 7 & 21 week of July 24. July 5 & 19 No sign-up required. [All Ages, 18 & under]

Baby Storytime (Birth – 24 mos.): Community Room Mondays at 10:30 & 11:30 a.m. Put on your coziest pajamas and join us for a half hour of stories, a Toddler Storytime (24-36 mos.): Youth Summer Reading craft, and a quick bedtime snack! Wednesdays at 10:30 & 11:30 a.m. Program: Reading by Design No sign-up required. Preschool Storytime (3-5 years): Stop by the library to sign up and Thursdays at 10:30 & 11:45 a.m. pick up your reading log. Track Pop-up Adventure Play Ground your reading progress and receive Fridays, June 9 through July 21 1,000 Books prizes at each new level. Win Drop-In from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Before cool mystery toys, candy, and [Grades 3 and under] Kindergarten books, as well as chances to win Community Room [Preschool] awesome raffle prizes. Don’t Drop in and explore our room of Children’s forget to join us for games, imagination. Forts? Rocket ships? Circulation activities, and entertainment Restaurants and alien landscapes? Desk throughout the summer. Sign-up Kids can create their own play Reading is starts at the Block Party on space with cardboard boxes, tape, incredibly June 2nd, and reading logs can be and a couple of surprises! important redeemed for prizes through What will you create? for developing language and July 29th. See a Youth Librarian Presented in collaboration with vocabulary in young children. for all the super cool details. Pop-Up Adventure Play. This is a campaign to encourage Children must be accompanied children and parents to share by an adult. 1,000 books before kids enter Youth Movie Day No sign-up required. kindergarten. Come to the desk Tuesdays @ 2:00 p.m. to get your record sheet and start June 6, 13, 20, & 27 Sensory Exploration reading! Every 100 books earns July 11, 18, & 25 (Library Community Room you a prize in addition to the big closed on July 4) Drop-In 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. prize at the end of 1,000! [All Ages, 18 and under] Saturdays: June 10, July 8 & Community Room August 26 Multi-Library Sponsored by the Friends of the [Ages 8 and Under] Geocaching Library Squishy, powdery, flakey, wet, June 5-August 5 Beat the heat for a couple hours hard, soft, squelchy, and [All Ages] and come by to watch a downright interesting! Our Details on page 2. movie. Titles will be posted in sensory bins will be full of new the library. things to touch, squish, and Popcorn will be provided. experiment with every month. No sign-up required. No sign-up required.

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Children’s Yoga Have you ever wondered what the But what design should you use to Drop-In from 2:00-3:00 p.m. inside of a computer looks like? build the best plane? That question Saturday, June 17 Are you curious about how a TV is for you to answer by putting Saturday, July 15 remote works? Come on in and your paper folding skills to the [Grades K-3] take apart a variety of appliances test. So get ready to start folding! Community Room and see what’s inside! Don’t For a special surprise, a trained Believe it or not, children feel worry, we won't make you put pilot is going to stop by and tell us stress too, so why not help them them back together! Children about planes. relax and express themselves must be accompanied by an No sign-up required. through children’s yoga? Yoga adult. No sign-up required. is about breathing, relaxing, and Mousetrap Machine knowing your own body, all of Family STEAM Saturdays: Science Show which benefit children. Your Up Close and Wonderful! Monday, June 12 @ 2:00 p.m. child can have fun while doing Saturday, August 5 [All Ages, 18 and under] creative poses and deep Drop-In from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Community Room breathing! Please bring a yoga [Kindergarten and up] There’s a mouse on the loose at the mat or a beach towel. Community Room public library! Award-winning Children must be accompanied Explore the hidden world right balloon artist Smarty Pants by an adult. beneath our noses! We have a presents the Mousetrap Machine Space may be limited new microscope and we can’t Show, a hilariously enjoyable wait to share it with you! Come science show that demonstrates Family STEAM Saturdays: on in and explore a variety of how simple machines work. These Code Makers and Breakers objects up close. You can even machines aren’t made from steel Saturday, June 24 learn how to prepare your own or wood or plastic - they’re all Drop-In from 1:00-4:00 p.m. microscope slide. Children must constructed out of giant balloons! [Kindergarten and up] be accompanied by an adult. Throughout the show, audience Community Room No sign-up required. volunteers help Smarty Pants Codes are everywhere! Stop in construct the world’s biggest and see if you can decode our One-Time Programs balloon mousetrap to catch a secret messages, and try your Where’s Waldo? runaway mouse. It’s entertaining, hand at coding a tiny, Month of June it’s educational and best of all - programmable robot! You can Stop in through the month of June fun! No sign-up required. even learn how to make your to see if you have what it takes to own secret code to communicate find Waldo as he travels around Sponge/Stencil Painting with friends! Children must be the Youth section of the Library! Tuesday, June 13 @ 5:00 p.m. accompanied by an adult. [3rd & under] No sign-up required. Paper Plane Activity Community Room Thursday, June 8 @ 2:00 p.m. Create a masterpiece with stencils, Family STEAM Saturdays: [All Ages, 18 and under] sponges, and paint! This fun craft Deconstruction Junction Community Room allows you to create a picture Saturday, July 22 Just one sheet of paper can lead to that’s all your own. Drop-In from 1:00-4:00 p.m. a whole lot of fun. How? Paper No sign-up required. [Kindergarten and up] planes! All you have to know is Community Room how to fold and you can have a simple plane in matter of minutes.

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Father’s Day Coasters Nature Camouflage Our pick this month: Wednesday, June 14 Tuesday, June 20 @ 6:00 p.m. Shredderman: Secret Identity by Drop-In from 1:00-4:00 p.m. [Grades K-3] Wendelin Van Draanen [All Ages, 18 and under] Community Room Community Room What is camouflage? How does it Let’s Build a Fable Looking for a fun gift idea for work? Do you think you have Wednesday, June 28 Father’s Day? We have an idea! what it takes to camouflage @ 2:00 p.m. Come to the library and create your own creation in different [All Ages] your own Father’s Day drink environments? Come use your Upper Level Stage coaster! You will be able to brains and artistic skills to make Join storyteller Terry Lynch as he paint your own design to take butterflies and give it a try! tells famous fables to inspire and home for your Dad to use. Children must be accompanied entertain. He will then lead the No sign-up required. by an adult. group through the construction No sign-up required. of an original fable worthy of Circus Day retelling to family and friends! Thursday, June 15 Where in the World is Carmen No sign-up required. @ 6:00 p.m. Sandiego? [Grades 3-5] Thursday, June 22 @ 6:00 p.m. Eric Carle Craft Day Outside (Rain Location: [Grades 3-5] Thursday, June 29 @ 5:00 p.m. Community Room) Calling all gumshoes! Carmen [3rd grade and under] Come have fun with our talented Sandiego is hiding somewhere in Community Room librarians, who will teach you all our Youth Department and we Come celebrate the June birthday the skills you need to know to need your help! Join us on an of Eric Carle, famous author and join the circus! Try your hand at adventurous scavenger hunt illustrator of The Very Hungry juggling, get your face painted, putting your detective skills to the Caterpillar, among many other practice your hula hoop skills, test. Help us capture this world beloved children’s books. We’ll do and enjoy circus-themed snacks. traveling mastermind. crafts inspired by his artwork, No sign-up required. No sign-up required. including edible caterpillar creations to snack on and bring Sunglasses Day Circle home! No sign-up required. Monday, June 19 @ 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 27 @ 6:00 p.m. [All Ages, 18 and under] [Grades 3-5] Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Community Room Community Room Month of July Come and create your own We are continuing our book club! [All ages] custom pair of sunglasses! Stop by anytime in June to pick Turn reading into an exciting Whether you like sequins, up your Book Club Kit, complete game with the help of this glitter, googly eyes, or pom with this month’s book for you to bookshelf scavenger hunt. poms, you can design a pair of check out, your membership card, Stop into the library throughout sunglasses that’s one of a kind. and cool related materials the month of July and get your No sign-up required. wrapped up and ready to go! scavenger hunt materials! Come back Tuesday, June 27th to chat about the book, eat snacks, and participate in fun activities! Limited to the first 12 people.

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Fourth of July Craft Animals for Awareness Bookworm Circle Monday, July 3 @ 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 12 Tuesday, July 25 @ 6:00 p.m. [All Ages, 18 and under] @ 6:00 p.m. [Grades 3-5] Community Room [All Ages] Community Room The most exciting part about the Outside (Rain Location: Pick up your Book Club Kit in 4th of July is the fireworks! Community Room) July. Limited to the first 12 people. Celebrate the 4th of July with Come see Animals for Our pick this month: Gooney fireworks in a jar! Come in and Awareness! They are bringing Bird Greene by Lois Lowry create your own custom jar full some exotic and not-so-exotic Ice Cream Social of sparkle and sequins perfect animals to you and will teach the Thursday, July 27 for indoors and outdoors. importance of thinking before Drop-in from 1:00-4:00 No sign-up required. buying/adopting. Also, you will [All Ages] hear the story of each individual Community Room Zombie Outbreak animal and will be able to touch, Summer reading is almost Thursday, July 6 @ 2:00 p.m. hold or view the magnificent over! Stop by and celebrate with [Grades 3-5] creature. Most of the animals on your own custom-made ice cream Community Room exhibit have been “rescued”, so The zombie apocalypse has sundae. No sign-up required. each has a different tale to tell! Sponsored by Friends of the Library begun and you must find a way No sign-up required. to save yourself! Build a path for your figure to climb across a Bird House Craft Thank you to our room to successfully escape the Thursday, July 13 @ 2:00 p.m. Summer Reading zombie outbreak before it [2nd grade - 4th grade] Sponsors! catches up with you. Community Room Friends of Lansing No sign-up required. Stop in to make a birdhouse out Library, Round the Clock,

of recycled milk jugs or juice Chipotle, Wendy’s, Bubble Activity cartons! Then hang your bird Giordano’s, Windy City Thursday, July 6 @ 5:00 p.m. feeder outside and bring all Thunderbolts, and [Preschool - 2nd grade] different kinds of birds flocking Chicago Fire. Courtyard into your yard! Come join us as we get creative No sign-up required. with bubbles! There will be tons Thank you to of different bubble activities set Tie-Dye Program Friends of Lansing up to have fun and play with. Monday, July 17 @ 2:00 p.m. Library for our new Be sure to have your kids dress [Grades 4-12] dollhouse, kitchen appropriately, as we will be Courtyard (Rain location: and gears toys! using paint, food coloring, and Community Room) Come try them out! They are so other things that might stain a Come make your own tie-dye much fun! nice outfit. Can’t wait to see you shirt. Experts from “All Tyed all there! No sign-up required. Up” will help you create your own designs on a shirt with our summer reading theme. No sign-up required. Limited to 30 participants. Materials will be supplied.

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Don’t forget to join us for games, Henna Program activities, and entertainment Wednesday, June 21 throughout the summer. Sign-up @ 3:00 p.m. starts at the Block Party on [Grades 6-12] June 2nd, and reading logs can be Community Room redeemed for prizes through What is Henna? Come learn about July 29th. See a Youth Librarian where it comes from, the cultures for all the super cool details. it's used in, and how it's made. Then you’ll hear about some Paper Plane Activity Henna basics, including how to do Teen Space! Thursday, June 8 @ 2:00 p.m. some basic shapes and practicing Our new teen space will be open [All Ages, 18 and under] with small cones. While everyone all summer long for students Community Room is practicing, our Henna artist, going into 6th-12th grade. You Just one sheet of paper can lead to Kendra, will give each participant can stop by anytime to chat with a whole lot of fun. How? a small design. Permission slips your friends, play video games Paper planes! All you have to are required. See the Youth or watch movies. There will be know is how to fold and you can Dept. for more information. no formal Teen Movie Days this have a simple plane in matter of Sign-up and a permission slip summer as the room will be minutes. But what design should are required. Limit 20. open. All Teen Space activities you use to build the best plane? must end thirty minutes before That question is for you to Let’s Build a Fable closing. answer by putting your paper Wed., June 28 @ 2:00 p.m. folding skills to the test. So get [All Ages] Multi-Library ready to start folding! For a Upper Level Stage Geocaching special surprise, a trained pilot is Join storyteller Terry Lynch as he June 5-August 5 going to stop by and tell us about tells famous fables to inspire and [All Ages] planes. No sign-up required. entertain. He will then lead the Details on page 2. group through the construction of Escape Box an original fable worthy of Monday, June 19 @ 6:00 p.m. retelling to family and friends! [Grades 4 and up] No sign-up required. Community Room You have been bit by a werewolf Slime Lab and have one hour before you Thursday, June 29 @ 2:00 p.m. change! The box holds the [4th-12th grades] Teen Summer Reading antidote but will you be clever Community Room Program: Reading by Design enough to get inside? Different Always wanted to make your own Stop by the library to sign up difficulty levels will keep this slime? Consider yourself a slime- and pick up your reading log. interesting for all ages. making expert? Either way, I’ll bet Track your reading progress and No sign-up required. I have a few recipes you haven’t receive prizes at each new level. seen before! Come try out some Win cool mystery toys, candy, new slimes and bring some home. and books, as well as chances to Some materials may be limited. win awesome raffle prizes.

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Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Charcoal/Pastel Still-Life Ice Cream Social Month of July Drawing Class Thursday, July 27 [All ages] Thursday, July 13 @ 6:00 p.m. Drop-in from 1:00-4:00 Turn reading into an exciting [Grades 6-12] [All Ages] game with the help of this Community Room Community Room bookshelf scavenger hunt. Stop Interested in having fun and Summer reading is almost into the library throughout the creating some awesome over! Stop by and celebrate with month of July and get your artwork? In this class, you'll learn your own custom-made ice cream scavenger hunt materials! the basic techniques for using sundae. No sign-up required. charcoal and pastels so you can Sponsored by Friends of the Library Digital Multimedia Maker Day draw your very own still-life Monday, July 10 @ 2:00 p.m. masterpieces. No prior art [Grades 6-12] experience necessary. Brick Room No sign-up required. Looking for a killer profile pic? Grab a laptop, snap a picture, Tie-Dye Program and get creative. Learn some Monday, July 17 @ 2:00 p.m. creative photo basics, [Grades 4-12] and make something that is one Courtyard (Rain location: of a kind! Community Room) Teen Library Lock-In Space is limited. Come make your own tie-dye From Friday, July 28 No sign-up required. shirt. Experts from “All Tyed from 7:00 p.m. to Up” will help you create your Saturday, July 29 at 7:00 a.m. Animals for Awareness own designs on a shirt with our [Ages 13-18] Wednesday, July 12 summer reading theme. It’s back! After taking a year off, @ 6:00 p.m. No sign-up required. Limited our annual Teen Lock-In is [All Ages] to 30 participants. Materials back! Come spend 12 hours at the Outside (Rain Location: will be supplied. library after it closes. There will Community Room) be pizza, candy, activities, movies, Come see Animals for T. F. South Summer video games, and so much Awareness! They are bringing Reading Book more! The only catch is there’s some exotic and not-so-exotic Discussion no leaving until the sun comes animals to you and will teach the Monday, July 24 up. Permission slips are importance of thinking before @ 2:00 p.m. and required. See the Youth Dept. buying/adopting. Also, you will Wed., July 26 @ 2:00 p.m. for more information. hear the story of each individual [Grades 9-12] Teen Room Sign-up and a permission slip animal and will be able to touch, With eighteen titles to choose are required. Limit 25. hold or view the magnificent from for the regular English creature. Most of the animals on classes, you might feel a bit exhibit have been “rescued”, so overwhelmed. Come by and get each has a different tale to tell! help choosing a book or share No sign-up required. with everyone which book you read. Honors and AP students are welcome to join in the discussion as well. No sign-up required.

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Lost Library Card The Lunch Bus is a mobile Replacement & meals program that distributes Food For Fines nutritious lunches to youth under Friday, June 2 18 years old in priority Cook through Saturday, County communities during the June 10 at the summer months. Circulation Desk The Lunch Bus will provide cold To kick off summer reading, we lunches at Lansing Library are waiving the $5 replacement between Monday, June 12 fee for lost library cards. Youth Lunch Bus through Friday, August 18. under 18 must have parent/ Monday through Friday, The Greater Chicago Food guardian present with proof of June 12-August 18. Depository AmeriCorps members residency to replace their card. 11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. and volunteers will distribute Monday, June 12 through lunches at the library Food For Fines allows you to Friday, August 18 from 11:50 AM to bring in non-perishable food No bus July 4. 12:10 PM Monday through items to pay fines! 1 item= $1. [Age 18 and under] Friday. The bus will be located Some restrictions apply, ask staff School Street by rear parking by the rear parking lot on School for details. Items will be donated Sponsored by Greater Chicago Food Street. Lunches must be to the Lansing Food Pantry. Depository consumed on-site. Limit $20 waived per person.

S u n Mo n T u e Wed T hu F r i S at JUNE 2017 May 29 May 30 May 31 June 1 June 2 3 Laughter 6:30-7:30 Community Round Avid Reads Disc. 6:30 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 Library Table 11-12 Please check Library Open 1-5 the newsletter Closed Block Party 6-8:30 for details, Food For Fines. Ask staff for details. ages and registration 4 Geocaching Begins 5 6 Knit 10:00 7 8 9 Knit in Public 10-2 10 requirements. Military Coupon Cutting Youth Movie 2:00 Medicare 101 10-11:30 Preschool Storytime Make It 10:00 Book Sale 9-1 9:30 & 6:00 Word: Intro 6:30-7:30 Toddler Storytime 10:30 & 11:45 Pop-up Adventure 1-4 members only 9-10 Baby Storytime 10:30 & 11:30 Paper Plane 2:00 Sensory 11-3 10:30 & 11:30 PJ Storytime 6:30 Reality Check NF 6:30 Food For Fines: Friday, June 2 through Saturday, June 10. Lost cards replaced free. Ask staff for details. 11 Lunch Bus Begins 12 13 14 15 16 17 Sing along 10:00 Youth Movie 2:00 Toddler Storytime Preschool Storytime Adult Coloring 10:00 Dead Relatives 9:30-11 Baby Storytime Sponge/Stencil Painting 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:45 Knit 10:00 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 10:30 & 11:30 5:00 Father’s Day Coasters 1-4 Mini Masterpiece 1-2:30 Pop-up Adventure 1-4 Children’s Yoga 2-3 Mousetrap Machine Word: Text & Pictures Circus Day 6:00 Science Show 2:00 6:30-7:30 Murder/Mayhem 6:30 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Baby Storytime Youth Movie 2:00 Knit 10:00 Preschool Storytime Pop-up Adventure 1-4 Family STEAM: 10:30 & 11:30 Nature Camouflage 6:00 Toddler Storytime 10:30 & 11:45 Code Makers and Sunglasses Day 2:00 Word: Style 6:30-7:30 10:30 & 11:30 Where in the World is Breakers 1-4 Escape Box 6:00 Henna 3:00 Carmen Sandiego 6:00 PJ Storytime 6:30 25 26 27 28 29 30 Library Closed Youth Movie 2:00 Toddler Storytime Preschool Storytime Knit 10:00 Bookworm Circle 6:00 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:45 Pop-up Adventure 1-4 Lunch bus PowerPoint: Intro 6:30- Community Round Slime Lab 2:00 still coming 7:30 Table 11-12 Eric Carle Craft 5:00 11:50-12:10 Build a Fable 2:00 S u n Mo n T u e Wed T hu F r i S at JULY 2017 1 Please check the newsletter for Writers Group 10:00-12:30 details, ages and registration requirements.

2 3 4 Pick up Walk/Talk 5 6 7 8 Military Coupon Cutting Knit 10:00 Pick up Avid Reads Pop-up Adventure 1-4 Book Sale 9-1 9:30 & 6:00 Library Medicare 101 10-11:30 Preschool Storytime members only 9-10 Baby Storytime Closed Toddler Storytime 10:30 & 11:45 Sensory Exploration 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:30 Zombie Outbreak 2:00 11-3 No lunch bus 4th of July Craft 2:00 PJ Storytime 6:30 Bubble Activity 5:00 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Sing along 10:00 Youth Movie 2:00 Walk/Talk 8:30 Preschool Storytime Make It 10:00 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 Baby Storytime PowerPoint: Audio, Toddler Storytime 10:30 & 11:45 Knit 10:00 Children’s Yoga 2-3 10:30 & 11:30 Video & Transitions 10:30 & 11:30 Birdhouse Craft 2:00 Pop-up Adventure 1-4 Digital Multimedia 2:00 6:30-7:30 Animals for Awareness Drawing Class 6:00 Friends Meeting 6:30 6:00 Reality Check NF 6:30 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Baby Storytime Youth Movie 2:00 Walk/Talk 8:30 Preschool Storytime Adult Coloring 10:00 Family STEAM: 10:30 & 11:30 Excel: Intro 6:30-7:30 Knit 10:00 10:30 & 11:45 Pop-up Adventure 1-4 Destruction Junction 1-4 Tie-Dye 2:00 Toddler Storytime Murder/Mayhem 6:30 10:30 & 11:30 PJ Storytime 6:30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Last day to redeem adult Baby Storytime Youth Movie 2:00 Walk/Talk 8:30 Preschool Storytime Knit 10:00 Last day to redeem reading logs is July 24 10:30 & 11:30 Bookworm Circle 6:00 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:45 youth & teen Adult Movie 11:00 Excel: Formulas & Round Table 11-12 Ice Cream Social 1-4 reading logs TFS Summer Reads Functions 6:30-7:30 TFS Summer Book Quote of Art 6:30-8 Teen Library Lock-In from Book Discussion 2:00 Discussion 2:00 7:00 p.m. Friday to 7:00 a.m. Saturday

S u n Mo n T u e Wed T hu F r i S at AUGUST July 31 August 1 2 3 4 5 Excel: Analyzing Data Half Walk/Talk 8:30 Avid Reads Disc. 6:30 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 2017 6:30-7:30 Medicare 101 10-11:30 Family STEAM: Up Knit 10:00 Close and Wonderful 1-4 Geocaching Ends

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Military Coupon Cutting Excel: Using Pivot Half Walk/Talk 8:30 Reality Check NF 6:30 Make It 10:00 Mental Health First Aid 9:30 & 6:00 Tables 6:30-7:30 Knit 10:00 9-5 Book Sale 9-1 members only 9-10

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Sing along with Rich Microsoft Office: Across Half Walk/Talk 8:30 Murder/Mayhem 6:30 Adult Coloring 10:00 How-To Festival 10:00 the Board 6:30-7:30 Knit 10:00 Lunch Bus Ends 10-3

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Microsoft Office: Half Walk/Talk 8:30 Knit 10:00 Sensory Exploration Working Together 11-3 6:30-7:30

27 28 29 30 31 Adult Movie 11:00 Half Walk/Talk 8:30 Community Round Please check the newsletter for Table 11-12 details, ages and registration requirements.