May 2019 Sandy and Hoodland Library News

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We have lots of great events coming up! Program details are listed below. Dates and times are subject to change so please check this link for up to date information: www.ci.sandy.or.us/Library Sandy Public Library 38980 Proctor Blvd, Sandy 97055 (503) 668-5537 Hours: Monday - Friday May is 10 am - 7 pm Saturday National 10 am - 5 pm Sunday 1 pm - 5 pm Bike Month

The library has a bunch of Hoodland titles to help you on your Public Library way! 24525 E Welches Rd, Welches, Oregon 97067 (503) 622-3460 Hours: Monday & Tuesday Noon - 6 pm Memorial Day Wednesday is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring persons who have died Noon - 6 pm while serving in the United States Armed Forces. The holiday, which is currently observed every Thursday & Friday year on the last Monday of May, was most recently held on May 28, 2018. Noon - 6 pm Poppies Saturday In 1915, following the Second Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a physician with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote the Noon - 5 pm poem, “In Flanders Fields”. Its opening lines refer to the fields of poppies Sunday Closed that grew among the soldiers’ graves in Flanders. In 1918, inspired by the poem, YWCA worker Moina Michael attended a YWCA Overseas War Secretaries’ conference wearing a silk poppy pinned to her coat and distributed over two dozen more to others present. In 1920, the National American Legion adopted it as their official symbol of remembrance.

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Library Coffeehouse is held on the first Friday of each month at 6 pm. This event features live music, refreshments, and a craft for kids. If you are interested in playing for us send an email to [email protected]

Father-Son duo “Now and Then”, plays acous- Library Coffeehouse Next Month tic tunes from the 1920’s to the hits of the present day. Catbone Slim There will be a special reception for the Friday, June 7th, Wy’East Artisan Guild during intermission. 6:00 pm The Sandy Library Coffeehouse, every First Bluegrass, country, and classic Americana folk. Friday year-round! Music, coffee, and dessert from 6-8 pm each first Friday of the month. Always a fun family event!

Contact Elaine Russell [email protected]

All ages space party @ Sandy Library

A little bit about CAP Cascade AIDS Project offers free & confidential rapid HIV testing safer sex materials, PrEP and Health Insurance Navigation Services throughout Washington, Clackamas, and Multnomah County, as well as in Southwest Wash- ington State! Additional STI testing is provided at many of our sites. Contact us for more details or with any questions! Regular & one-time testing sites are available near you. To find the most updated sites, which tests are being offered, days, & hours, go to cascadeaids.org/get-tested/. HIV/AIDS Epidemic In 2015, an estimated 39,393 people in the United States were diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. About 1 in 7 people with HIV in the United States do not know that they are infected. In 2015, an estimated 211 adults and adolescents were diagnosed with HIV in Oregon. Oregon ranked 32nd among the 50 states in the number of HIV diagnoses in 2015. - www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/stateprofiles/pdf/Oregon_profile.pdf May 2019 Adult Events p.3

Do you need information for yourself, a Sandy Public Library friend, or loved one about what services Thursday, May 2, 6:30 pm and programs are available for older adults, people with disabilities, and veterans? Come learn about the types of private and public Hoodland Library resources available to individuals looking for Wednesday, June 12, 6:00 pm assistance and about the Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC), a free central source of information for all income levels. Contact Maureen Houck [email protected]

Gardening 101 with Master Gardener Priscilla Robinson Thursday, May 23, 6:30 pm This presentation will take place at the Sandy Public Library Sandy Public Library Community Room. Learn about Farm, Oregon’s first Community Room tourist destination, and the historical . We will explore Learn how to identify your the settlement of Eagle Creek and the history of the surrounding communities during 1845-1900. Find garden space, prepare your soil, plant crops, and extend out about current programs at the Philip the growing season. The secret to super-productive Foster Farm. gardening is taking time now to plan strategies that work. Bring your questions and take away solutions. Imagine Presenter Joanne Broadhurst, a native born Oregonian whose family dates to the delicious possibilities. 1843 and 1853, is a great granddaughter of Josiah and Lucy Foster Our presenter this evening, Priscilla Robinson, is a Master Burnett (Daughter to Philip and Mary Charlotte Foster). Family Gardener, Credentialed Teacher, and Science Educator. history was a common conversation during her early years, She regularly speaks at National and Regional Science instilling a life-long interest in Oregon history. Ms. Broadhurst attended Eagle Creek grade school, Estacada High School, Oregon conferences and interacts with teachers providing State College, and attained her CPA degree through Portland State Professional Development Workshops. She finds University. blending her passion for teaching and working in the Ms. Broadhurst is garden a happy opportunity to share her talents with retired but still community members of all involved in the Philip ages. Foster Farm. Contact Susie Jenkins Contact Susie Jenkins [email protected] [email protected]

Next Month Food Plants for Small OR7 (Journey) & Other Wolves in Oregon Spaces and Containers Thursday, June 27, 6:30 pm with Susan Gilbert Sandy Thurs. June 6, 6:30 pm Public Sandy Public Library Library May 2019 Events for Kids p.4

Sandy Library Hoodland Library We are happy to offer a youth art class in 2:00 - 4:00 pm 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm partnership with the Wy’East Artisans Guild. st st th 1 Saturday of each month: Youth This class is for 1 -6 graders. Preschooler 1st Saturday: activities are available with an adult present. LEGO Club Contact Monica Smith nd Art Club. Art [email protected] 2 Saturday of each month: Pokemon 2nd & 4th Saturday: rd Class Thursdays 3 Saturday of each month: LEGO Club. LEGO Club 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm th Sandy Public Library 4 Saturday of each month: Community Room Club Kids’ Afternoon Saturday 7-11 ages for Appropriate Science

Hoodland Storytime Thursdays, 2:00-2:30 pm. Hoodland Library Community Room Appropriate for children through preschool age. Contact Monica Smith [email protected]

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skills andFun confidence. for all About DoveLewis Sign up at theages! information desk or call DoveLewis, established in 1973 503-668-5527 for 15 minute reading and based in Portland, Oregon, is the Northwest’s nonprofit 24-Hour sessions withFree Prudence. Comic Book Day Emergency & ICU Animal Hospital, offering advanced veterinary care. Prudence willat Hoodland be at the libraryLibrary Read to Read toDoveLewis a Dog also offers several 100 every ThursdaySat. May from 4, 1:003:00–4:00 pm pm. percent donor-funded programs with Thursdays, May 2, 16, 30, at 6:00 pm Prudence the dog the community including one of in the Children’sAmerica’s section largest at volunteer-based the Sandy at the Sandy Library.Library animal blood banks, a nationally Pokemon Club Reading to a dogrecognized will helppet loss your support child program, Saturday, May 11 develop reading24-hour skills stabilizing and careconfidence. for lost, stray Sign up at the informationand wild animals, financial desk orassistance call Reading to a dog will help503-668-5537 for qualifying 15 minute low-income reading families sessions. and abused animals, and a therapy your child develop reading dog program. In partnership Come and join us for some Pokemon free play. It’s ok with if you don’t know how to play or don’tskills have a deck, and we confidence. About DoveLewis have one you can use and we will teach you the rules! Sign up at the information desk or call DoveLewis, established in 1973 and based in Portland, Oregon, is 503-668-5527 for 15 minute reading About Guide Dogs the Northwest’s nonprofit 24-Hour sessions with Prudence. EstablishedEmergency in 1942, & GuideICU Animal Dogs Hospital, for the Blind’soffering (GDB)advanced mission veterinary is to care. Prudence will be at the library place guideDoveLewis dogs with also peopleoffers several who 100 every Thursday from 3:00–4:00pm. are blindpercent and visually donor-funded impaired. programs GDB with also believesthe community that career includingchange dogs one of changeAmerica’s lives, too. largest All of thesevolunteer-based dogs are greatanimal companions. blood banks, Some ago nationally on to other careersrecognized as service pet loss dogs, support search program, and rescue24-hour dogs, stabilizing medical carealert for dogs, lost, stray therapyand dogs wild and animals, other roles. financial assistance for qualifying low-income families and abused animals, and a therapy dog program.

About Guide Dogs Established in 1942, Guide Dogs for the Blind’s (GDB) mission is to place guide dogs with people who are blind and visually impaired. GDB also believes that career change dogs change lives, too. All of these dogs are great companions. Some go on to other careers as service dogs, search and rescue dogs, medical alert dogs, therapy dogs and other roles. May 2019 Teen Events p.5

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexi- can daughters The Librarian of Auschwitz never abandon their family. by Antonio Iturbe Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent T-LAB to Auschwitz is chosen to protect Teen Library Advisory Board the eight volumes prisoners have Ages 12-17 Monday, May 20, 3 pm smuggled past the guards. Please contact Rebecca [email protected] Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but We are looking there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager for Volunteers to to investigate. So together, they navigate the short plan this year’s Sandy Haunt distance and broad divides that separate them from 2019! The library has partnered Russell Pickett’s son, Davis. with Creatures of the Night to provide a high quality event for our community. If you are inter- Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin ested in working with a with us Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and inter- to put together a professional viewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults level production come to a and used her considerable skills to represent them planning meeting. thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Planning meeting Mondays in May @ 4:00 TeenGame Factory Sandy Library Mondays @ 4:00 pm Community Room Questions Rebecca Robinowitz [email protected]

The Sandy Library and Hoodland Library are a non-profit entity not associated with the School District May 2019 Ongoing Events p.6

Hoodland Men’s Women’s Book Group Group Group Wed., May. 15, Monday, Thursday, 6:30 pm May, 6 May, 9 ddowney@ 7 pm. 7 pm. ci.sandy.or.us or call 503-622-3460

Sandy Library is 3 Book groups: Men, Women, & Hoodland offering free English Visit the Library website or like the City of Sandy on Facebook to see what books the book groups are reading next. Book classes with personal Groups meet at the Sandy Library unless otherwise noted. tutors for students of all levels.

You can purchase your SAM fare at the library! Both the Sandy Library and Hoodland Library have the following SAM and MT HOOD EXPRESS bus passes: Book-a-Librarian SAM/STAR monthly passes $30 Our Reference Librarian is available by appointment to SAM/STAR 24-ride punch passes $20 assist you with research, using library resources, or catching SAM and MT HOOD EXPRESS daily unlimit- up on the latest tech. You can call ahead and book individ- ed ride passes $5 ual time with our Reference Librarian at 503-622-3460 or SAM/STAR 5 individual ride tokens $5. email [email protected]

A librarian is available every day at the Sandy Library. You may drop in or set up an appointment by email: [email protected] or by phone 503- 668-5537

All library programs are sponsored in part by the Friends of Sandy Library and Friends of Hoodland Library