October 2020 SPECIAL CONCERT ON THE LAWN: KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY Monday, October 12 @ 6:30 to 7:15 pm Musicians from the Kansas City Symphony are coming to the li- brary to perform a free outdoor chamber concert in our parking lot Meet the Candidates Forums and lawn! We can’t wait to share wonderful music with you on a Basehor Community Library has for the last several years beautiful evening! The musicians hosted Candidate Forums during election cycles. We would will be playing on a stage in the like to continue this tradition, but this year we are constrained parking lot, so if you wish to sit please bring your folding by the challenges of the pandemic. Our alternative to a live chairs or blankets. To protect attendees, Library staff, and the in-person forum is to hold the forums online, using the Zoom musicians, all are asked to maintain social distancing and wear platform. Meet the Candidates vying for the honor of masks. See you there! representing Basehor in the Kansas Legislature at two We are combining the Concert on the Lawn with a Food special forums, hosted by the library, to be broadcast live on Zoom. The programs will only be online. A moderated Drive for Basehor-Linwood Assistance Service. During this question and answer session will follow each candidate’s difficult time, food insecurity is a real problem in the Basehor opening remarks. community. If you have something to spare, please bring canned goods or personal hygiene items to the library during Candidates for Kansas House District #38 the KC Symphony concert on Monday, October 12 . Special needs are: canned soup, chili and stew, shampoo, conditioner, Tuesday, October 6 @ 7:00-8:00 pm and laundry detergent. Thank you! The Kansas House of Representatives will have a new Representative from Documenting the Dead: District 38 in 2021. The two candidates are Sherri Grogan (D) and Timothy Presented by Dustin Pari Johnson (R). Please register to receive Wednesday, October 7 @ 7:00-8:00 pm the Zoom link. Please register to receive the Zoom link Join us on Zoom for a look at the paranormal with Dustin Candidates for Kansas Senate District #3 Pari, member of SyFy television’s Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters Tuesday, October 13 @ 7:00-8:00 pm International, and Destination Truth. Senator Tom Holland (D), Baldwin With over 20 years of experience City, is the incumbent for the Kansas researching the unknown, he brings Senate seat representing Basehor and exciting and positive lectures about the surrounding area. He is being the paranormal all across the challenged by Representative Willie country. Dustin’s fascination with Dove of Bonner Springs (R). Please the paranormal began with an register to receive the Zoom link. encounter he had with a spirit in his childhood home. In his efforts to better understand what had NOTE: Audience participants can submit questions before the happened and why, he has traveled across the United States events by email ([email protected]) or during to 23 countries upon six different continents, learning a little the event through Zoom’s chat feature. more with each step of his journey. Complete with historical stories, evidence, and some We realize that many voters in our district may not have “would-be” evidence, Dustin does a great job of presenting an access to the technology needed to view these forums on honest and respectful retrospective piece on contacting the Zoom. So, we will record the events and have the record- other side. Filled with anecdotal tales from his travels, and ing available on the library’s BCLBuzz YouTube channel. evidence from his investigations, the Documenting the Dead We can also save the recording on a flash drive or DVD lecture is just the right mix of educational, fun, and creepy. so all voters can watch it in a format available to them. Available via phone and email: Mon-Thurs 9am-8pm Fri-Sat 9am-5pm Sun 1pm-5pm Adults Welcome to the Tutor.com Adult Education Center Dementia Support Group Free, on-demand, anonymous tutoring Thursday, October 1 @ 6:30 pm in person and on Zoom available online through Basehor Library! Join us in this safe, supportive environment for caregivers. Dr. Are you returning to school, working towards Martiza Buenaver, Geriatric Psychiatrist specializing in dementia education, is our guide. We have been meeting on Zoom and your GED, or refreshing your skills for work? anyone is welcome to join us as we share our experiences. Please Get anonymous, private, online tutoring for any call the library for more information. kind of academic question in math, science, English, social studies, and writing anywhere Coffee Klatch you have an internet connection with Monday, October 12 @ 9:30-10:30 am at the Library Sorry, no coffee (or tea!) at this time. (Bring Tutor.com—FREE through your library! your own sweet something to nibble if you Expert tutors are available to you seven days a wish.) But, please, do come and hear about some week, 1:00-8:00 pm. of the new books available here at the library. Learn what’s hot at the library and maybe Visit www.tutor.com/basehor from any Internet discover a title or two you missed. We will be connected device. Enter your library card to get socially-distanced and wearing masks. If the started. Tutor.com’s expert tutors can help you weather is nice, we will meet outside. on anything from learning how to add fractions to understanding your college-level statistics Thursday Evening Book Club class. Thursday, October 29 @ 6:30-7:30 pm at the library The Lost Man You can choose to connect with a tutor right by Jane Harper away or use one of the other great features of the Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first service, including practice quizzes to help study time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. Their for an exam, online resources from the third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. In an Tutor.com SkillsCenter Resource Library, isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour and the Drop-Off Writing Review service drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest where expert writing tutors review and give you neighbors. While they grieve Cameron’s loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced feedback on your writing assignments before to examine secrets the family would rather leave in you have to turn them in! the past. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the If you’d like a demonstration of how to use the outback leaves few suspects. service, please visit the library or ask your tutor A powerful and brutal story of suspense set against the formidable for a tour of the classroom at the start of your landscape of the Australian Outback. Copies of the book are available at the library. Please join us for a mask-wearing, socially session. Don’t be afraid to get the (FREE!) help distanced in-person discussion. you need. Create your FREE account using your Basehor Library card number and password. Improve the quality of your education—and your life—by logging in today! The Friends of the Basehor Library regret having to cancel the Fall Booksale, but are hopeful things will be better in time for the Spring Sale. If you have books you want to donate, please visit the Basehor Library website’s Friends page, and you will find a Donate Books button. Fill out the questionnaire and they will get back with you to set up a donation appointment. Donations will only be accepted by appointment. The Friends are a small group of volunteers (who would love to have you join them!). Thank you for your understanding. 20’s & 30’s Books n’ Beverages Book Club Thursday, October 8 @ 7:00 pm @ the library Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Whoever is born here is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's beds for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break their strict regu- lations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into dark, medieval practices of the distant past. The book is available at the library. Contact Amy @ the Library if you have any questions. Since we’re going to be meeting in person, social distancing and masks will be required. Discussion will be held outside so bring a lawn chair. Teens OCTOBER TEEN SPECIAL EVENTS! Saturday, October 17 @ 7:30pm Teen Outdoor Movie: Gremlins Get out of the house for a TEENS ONLY NIGHT and join us for an outdoor showing of Gremlins. Bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. Social distancing and masks will be required. Tuesday, October 27 @ 4:00 pm Teen Scavenger Hunt @ Basehor City Park Teens, bring your phones to the Basehor Park for a massive scavenger hunt. When you arrive you’ll be given a list of things to locate in the park.