Library Happenings

VOLUME 13, ISSUE 10 OCTOBER 2020 wascocountylibrary.com

The Dalles-Wasco County Public Library 722 Court St Halloween: a haunted history The Dalles OR 97058 (541)296-2815 The leaves are turning, you can feel a chill in the

Curbside Service air, and there are spooky goings on at The Dalles Monday—Thursday 10:00 a.m.—7:00 p.m. Public Library! Join us for an interactive and enlight- Friday ening virtual Zoom event that will hit on the history 10:00 a.m.—6:00 p.m. of America’s favorite ghost (and candy) based event, th Dufur School/ on Tuesday, October 20 at 6:00. Community Library With over 25 years of experience researching the (located at the Dufur School unknown, Dustin Pari brings exciting and positive Campus) lectures about the paranormal all across the country. 802 NE 5th St As a part of SyFy television's Ghost Hunters, Ghost Dufur, OR 97021 (541)467-2588 Hunters International, and appearances on Destination Truth and Ghost Nation, Dustin

Curbside Service has traveled the world over, looking for answers and expanding his understanding available Thursday of the unseen realm. 6:00 p.m.—7:00 p.m. continued at top of page two

Southern Wasco County Library 507 Grant Ave Maupin, OR 97037 Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month (541)395-2208

Monday Noon —4:00 p.m. The Dalles Public Library is excited to have the award- Tuesday—Thursday winning children’s and YA author, Isabel Quintero, visit us 11:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. Friday 11:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m. virtually on October 15th to culminate the celebration of Saturday Noon—4:00 p.m. Latinx Heritage Month. Isabel Quintero lives and writes in Southern California. As the daughter of Mexican immi- Library stations are also located grants, her stories celebrate and express her culture at Shaniko Old School House and Tygh School Community through words. Her debut YA novel Gabi, a girl in pieces Center. (Cinco Puntos Press), tells the tale of a Latinx protagonist coming of age story during senior year in high school. Gabi, Library Board: Carolyn Wood, chair a girl in pieces received several awards and recognition in- Mary Beechler, vice chair cluding the Tomas Rivera Award, The California Book Corliss Marsh continued at top of page seven Tina Coleman Rita Rathkey Inside you will find: District Librarian Jeff Wavrunek Pages two — Book club; pumpkin decorating contest Pages three — Take & Make kits for adults Friends of the Library: Page four — Calendar of events Eileen White, President Page five — Programs of interest to Teens & Tweens

Page six — Storytimes and programs for ages 0-10 Newsletter Editor: Rita Squires Page eight — News from the Maupin and Dufur libraries P A G E 2 Halloween continued

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Throughout the year he is an invited guest lecturer at the some of the largest paranormal and spiritual conferences and conventions in the country. He has been interviewed by television's Anderson Cooper, and has done radio shows and podcasts all around the globe. Space is limited, so sign up soon for this free event at: www.wascocountylibrary.com/the- dalles-library. To participate in this event you will need an internet connection, as well as a device that can run Zoom, such as your cell phone. Contact the Library at 541-296-2815 if you have any questions, or need help getting registered.

Pumpkin decorating contest

Well, it’s Halloween time again; the season for decorating pumpkins. Will you be doing that this year? If you are, why not share a photo of your creation with us at the library. We will be picking one lucky person to win a $25 gift card to The Riv Café, compliments of The Dalles Public Library. This is sure to be a deli- cious prize, so don’t miss out! Send one photo of your decorated pumpkin, in an email, to [email protected] with “Pumpkin Contest” in the subject line, beginning October 1st. Entries must be in by October 31st. Winner will be announced no later than November 10th. This contest is open to patrons of The Dalles Public Library only.

Third Thursday Book Club The Third Thursday Book Club meets, by a strange coincidence, on the third Thursday of each month. This group does meet in person, following social distancing guidelines. For the October 15th discussion, this group will meet at 2:00 at the Pioneer Cemetery, located in the 400 block of East Scenic Drive. Please dress appropriately for the weather, and wear comfortable walking shoes, as we will be walking around the cemetery. The book we will be discussing is The graveyard book, by Neil Gaiman. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family. The graveyard book, a modern classic, is the only work ever to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) medals. Copies of the book are available, if you would like to join the discussion. Call the library and ask for a copy today.

LIBRARY HAPPENINGS October take and make kits for adults

Registration for the adult take and make kits opens September 28th. These programs are intended for those age 19 and older. Supplies are limited, register at: www.wascocountylibrary.com/adult-services-1; you can also register by phone at 541-296-2815. We will notify you, by phone or email, when the kits are available for pickup.

DIY Beetlejuice Potted Sandworm Kit Classic Monster Silhouette Kit Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Are you pre- Are you a classic monster pared to make this perfectly hor- feen? You’ll enjoy this ghast- rific creation? If you are a fan of ly kit, which includes a wood the movie, you’ll enjoy making plaque, mod podge, and oth- this craft. Included in this kit are er materials to help you cre- a pot, air-dry clay, paint, and a ate this frightful craft. This paintbrush, you supply the crea- will go perfect with your tivity and glue gun. The video Halloween decorations or keep it up all year long. The tutorial will be available on October 23rd. video tutorial will be available on October 27th.

Sewing with Cece: Halloween Edition Join sewing teacher Cece on our YouTube channel for sewing Halloween costumes. She is making adult costumes, with techniques for you to replicate at home, for a fraction of the cost of store-bought costumes. She'll go over the different budget costs for different costumes, starting with the most expensive, to a totally recycled costume at the end. If you are looking for children's costumes, please check out her previous videos, such as her cowgirl outfit.

Question: Why are black cats associated with Halloween (and bad luck)? Answer: The Puritans associated black cats with witchcraft, leading to the on-

Here’s a little Hallowe’en trivia for you: yx-colored felines’ association with Halloween. In many other cultures, Question: Where does the term “jack o’lantern” come black cats are actually signs from? of good luck and are revered! Answer: The term “jack o’lantern” originates from an Question: What was candy corn originally called? Irish folktale about a cheap man named “Stingy Jack” Answer: Chicken Feed who made a deal with the devil. Question: When is Halloween thought to have originat- Question: What sort of mask does Michael Myers wear ed? in the original Halloween? Answer: 4000 B.C. Answer: Because the studio had such a small budget, they had to use the cheapest mask they could find. It Question: When was Halloween first celebrated in the was a $2 William Shatner mask that they spray painted United States? white. Answer: Around the 1840s when there was a flood of Irish immigrants fleeing from the potato famine. October 2020

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27 28 29 30 1 2 3 Baby Storytime 10:30 Toddler Storytime Friday Morning Storytime on Facebook Live* 10:30 on Facebook Live* 10:30 on Facebook Live, from Teen: Banned Book World Postcard Day* City Park* Collage kit available* Dufur—curbside service 6-8 pm*

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Teen—Paint Night* Cuentos con Coco bilingual Baby Storytime 10:30 Toddler Storytime Friday Morning Storytime storytime* on Facebook Live* 10:30 on Facebook Live* 10:30 on Facebook Live, from Dufur—curbside service 6-8 pm* City Park* Teen—Macramé Feathers*

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Teen- Zombie/Voodoo plushie Cuentos con Coco bilingual Baby Storytime 10:30 Isabel Quintero at via Zoom Friday Morning Storytime 0-4 year olds Take& Make kit* storytime* on Facebook Live* @ 10:30, 11:30 & 1:30* 10:30 on Facebook Live, from 5-20 year old Take & Make Kit* 3rd Thursday Book Club 2:00 City Park* @ Pioneer Cemetery in TD* Teen: Clay Monster Pot Family Science Activity Kit* Dufur—curbside service 6-8 pm*

18 19 20 22 22 23 24 Dustin Pari via Zoom 6:00* Baby Storytime 10:30 Toddler Storytime Friday Morning Storytime on Facebook Live* 10:30 on Facebook Live* 10:30 on Facebook Live, from Adult—Potted Sandworm City Park* video tutorial* Teen: Tattoo Sleeve Dufur—curbside service 6-8 pm* video tutorial

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Teen: Jack Skellington jars* Adult—Monster Silhouette video Baby Storytime 10:30 Toddler Storytime Friday Morning Storytime 10:30 on Facebook Live** 10:30 on Facebook Live, from 0-4 year olds Take& Make kit* tutorial* on Facebook Live* Dufur—curbside service 6-8 pm* City Park* 5-20 year old Take & Make Kit* Teen: Shrinky Dinks*

TD—The Dalles Library *Read more about this in the newsletter Teen and Tween programs and activity kits

All activity kits are by registration. Please be attached to your keychain or go to wascocountylibrary.com/teen-services backpack for a bit of ghoulish and fill out the registration forms. We will decoration. Sign-up for the activity kit, which contains everything notify you when the kits are ready to be you need to make one. picked up. Just a reminder, these kits are for those ages 11-18. October 16: DIY Clay Monster Pot Use these little pots for actual plants, paint brushes, makeup brushes or school September 28th: Banned Books Collage supplies. Create a scary face You’d be surprised by the list of books that have or a fairy face, let your im- been banned or challenged. The top 10 agination be your guide. reasons why are: LGBTQIA content, Your kit will include some sexually explicit, profanity, racism, vio- clay, a pot to cover, a sculpt- lence, religious viewpoint, sex educa- ing tool and some paint. tion, suicide, drug/alcohol use and nudity. This kit will help you create a book collage of banned and challenged October 23: Tattoo Sleeve Tutorial book covers for Banned Books Week. The kit will be Want to cover yourself in ink but don’t like pain or available September 28th. the expense...or aren’t old enough? Need a full sleeve of tattoos for your October 5th: Paint Night: Dragon costume? Learn how to create simple How about a dragon to get you into tattoo sleeves using old tights, perma- the spirit of Halloween. This paint night nent markers and a chip can. (There is picture features a silhouetted dragon fly- no kit, just the video tutorial.) ing across a red sky. These paintings are just for inspiration, you can paint any- October 26th: Jack Skellington Mason Jars thing you like with the colors provided. We will be making some fun glow- This take home kit comes with a stencil and everything ing decorative jars, featuring Jack Skel- you will need to make it. lington. You can keep it in your room for a nightlight, or use it when you October 9: DIY Macramé Feathers need to find the creature under your Macramé feathers can be used as a key- bed…..The kit contains everything you chain, a tassel, earrings, or you can make a need to make one. few of them and turn them into a beautiful wall hanging. You can easily make your October 30: Dia De Los Muertos Shrinky Dinks own Boho style room decor with this simple Celebrate Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead on DIY kit! November 1st & 2nd with us by making your own shrink plastic Calaveras/sugar October 12th: Zombie/Voodoo Plushie skull. Add a hole to make a keychain or a We will be making these cute plushies, which are pinback to make a button. Color in the surprisingly easy. Jeannie will show you how in the provided Calaveras picture or draw one of video tutorial, as she makes one of her own. These can your own.

Science from the pantry: Glow-in-the-dark Slime

In this online tutorial, available October 19th, Jeanie will show you how to make your own glow in the dark slime, using everyday ingredients. P A G E 6 Virtual storytimes We will continue to bring you the virtual storytimes via Facebook Live or YouTube for as long as necessary:

Cuentos con Coco Bilingual Storytime: for all ages. Join us for virtual bilingual storytime on Tuesdays, October 6th and 13th. The videos will be available on our YouTube and Facebook pages. Acompáñenos en la hora virtual de cuentos bilingües los martes. Nuestros videos estarán disponibles en nuestras páginas de YouTube y Facebook.

Baby Storytime: ages 0 – 18 months, on Wednesdays at 10:30. Must have an adult lap to sit on. This 15-20 minute program is full of fingerplays, lapsits, and songs.

Toddler Storytime: ages 12- months to 3-years, is held on Thursdays at 10:30. This 20-25 minute storytime will have songs, fingerplays, a story, and maybe a lapsit; and as always, ends with the Barnyard Dance. Adult participation is required.

NOTE: No Toddler Storytime on October 15th, instead we encourage you to register for the Zoom storytime with author Isabel Quintero. This special storytime program will be in Spanish.

Friday Morning Storytime: this storytime will be done in person, at 10:30 at City Park, weather permit- ting. We encourage you and your little ones to come join us in person, or watch on Facebook Live, if you can’t get out. These storytimes include songs, finger-plays, movement, and stories. Adult participation is encouraged, especially when we do the hokey pokey, because that is what it’s all about. Pre-school Take & Make kits School-age Take & Make kits There will be two craft kits available this month for There are two craft kits offered to those ages 5-10, those ages 0-4. Supplies are limited, pre-registration is during the month of October. Supplies are limited, required. You can sign-up beginning September 28th pre-registration is required, which you can do begin- for them (separate registration form for each). You will ning September 28th for both of them (separate regis- be notified by either email or phone call, when they are tration form for each). You will be notified by email or available. phone call, when they are available.

Pumpkin Patch in a Box: this kit The Candy Corn Crow ornament kit contains everything needed to make contains everything your child needs to a pumpkin patch in a box. This kit make this cute little crow ornament. Or will be available the week beginning October 12th. you could glue a magnet (not included) on the back, and turn it into a refrigera- Ceramic Pumpkin: this kit con- tor magnet. This kit will be available the tains a small ceramic pumpkin, as week beginning October 12th. well as some acrylic paints, and two paint brushes that you can use to create your own masterpiece. The Paper Plate Scarecrow kit contains everything your child needs to Over the summer, there were a lot of questions make this adorable paper plate scare- about the age restrictions on the kits, especially for crow. This kit will be available the week those who’s child had a birthday coming up. If your th beginning October 26 . younger child is going to turn 5 anytime during the month of October, go ahead and sign them up for the kit for the older kids, and put 5 for age on the registra- Mark your calendar, there will be two kits available tion form. Please feel free to contact us if you have any in November, with registration opening November 1st. other questions.

LIBRARY HAPPENINGS Latinx Heritage Month continued continued from page 1 NPR Book Concierge Pick 2019 Award Gold Medal, and the Morris Award for Debut YA. Bank Street Children's Book Committee Best Spanish Commissioned by The Getty Museum in 2016, her non Language Picture Book Award -fiction graphic novel, Photographic: The Life of Graciela 2020 TEXAS 2X2 READING LIST Iturbide, about Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbde, Tejas Star Reading List Pick (Spanish edition) earned the Boston Globe Horn Book Award. 2019 Southern California Independent Booksellers In addition, she has also written a children's Association Book Award Finalist book series for (Scholastic), Ugly Cat and Pablo, Summer 2019 Kids’ Indie Next List about two unimaginable friends (a cat and a Isabel Quintero will visit us through ZOOM on Octo- mouse) getting into mischief, snacking on pale- ber 15thto talk about her children’s books and do sto- tas, and truly understanding what it means to rytime. Families, you will not want to miss this treat! be a friend to the end. There will be three separate ZOOM chats throughout the Most recently, Isabel wrote the chil- day that you will be able to attend. The first one will be at dren’s picture book My Papi Has a mo- 10:30, in place of Toddler Story Time, and will be in Span- torcycle (Kokila), which is described as ish. The next two will be at 11:30 and at 1:30, and will be “a celebration of the love between a in English. More information and registration will be father and daughter, and of a vibrant available the first week of October on our Facebook and immigrant neighborhood.” website pages. Praise for My Papi has a motorcycle include: Registration is limited. There will be an autographed Pura Belpré Illustration Honor Award book raffle for attendees. 2020 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award This virtual program was made possi- 2020 American Library Association Notable ble by The Wasco County Cultural Trust Children's Book Grant and the Friends of the Library. A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019 Find us on Facebook at: https:// A Horn Book Best Children's Book of 2019 www.facebook.com/ A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2019 thedalleswascocountylibrary or via our website at: A School Library Journal Best Book of 2019 www.wascocountylibrary.com/the-dalles-library A Parents Magazine Best Children's Book of 2019

Family Science activity kit

Who doesn’t like doing science experiments? Especially when you can do it as a family! If your family includes at least one elementary age child (age 5 or older), then you can sign-up each month to get a science activity kit, available from October through May. Registration will open the first of each month; and the kits will be available around the 15th of that month, though you will be notified when they are ready. Supplies are limited, only one registration per family per month. Each kit will usually contain everything you need to explore science, and sometimes, even make something fun and unexpected. Perhaps you and your family will learn something as you experiment. The kits do require adult participation, and will come with complete in- structions. The planned kits for the next three months are: October – Screaming Balloons; November – Bubble Gum Kit; and December – Energy Stick. Coming in the future will be the Balancing Nails kit, Educational Solar Kit, Windbags; and more. The “screaming balloon” If you have any questions about these kits, or their availability, please feel free to contact will be the kit for October. Rita at: [email protected] VOLUME 13, ISSUE 10 P A G E 8 News from Southern Wasco County Library

Since May, the library in Maupin (SWCL) has been open to the public for returning books and for browsing. All patrons must wear masks according to the state guidelines. We are working on virtual programs as well as grab-and-go craft kits. Patrons can follow us on social media and read our email newsletter for more information. If you live in the Maupin area, and don’t yet receive their newsletter by email, contact Bronte Dod at 541-395- Here is a view taken from the entryway of the new Southern Wasco 2208 and she’ll help you get connected. County Library (SWCL), located in Maupin.

We’re getting crafty Anyone else tapping into their creative side at home these days? Since we can't meet for in-person programs at the library, we made grab-and-go craft kits for you. Our first project is the adorable wool felt ball coaster. Come by SWCL to pick up a bag with everything you need to complete the DIY coasters. Limit one per family; available while supplies last. Call the SWCL at 541-395-2208 for more information about these kits.

News from Dufur School/Community Library

As many of you are aware, the library in Dufur had been closed since early March due to the on-going pan- demic. The Dufur library is now happy to be accepting holds and offering curbside pick-up. You can pick-up your items on Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the front of the school. Please be patient as the kinks are worked out of this process. If you have questions feel free to contact the Dufur librarian at: [email protected]

Building upgrades While the library and school in Dufur were closed, the facelift to the building was able to continue. The parking lot has been relocated, new sidewalks have been put in place, and a handicap accessible ramp takes you to the door- way for the library. Even the beloved football field got an upgrade, it’s just waiting to be played on when the games are allowed to be Photo by Sarah Anderson held again.