AUGUST 2017 AUGUST Connecting People, Building Community, Transforming Lives Ocean County Library 101 Washington Street Toms River, NJ 08753 BARNEGAT www.theoceancountylibrary.org BAY HEAD BEACHWOOD BERKELEY BRICK ISLAND HEIGHTS JACKSON LACEY LAKEWOOD LITTLE EGG HARBOR LONG BEACH ISLAND MANCHESTER PLUMSTED POINT PLEASANT BEACH POINT PLEASANT BOROUGH STAFFORD TOMS RIVER TUCKERTON UPPER SHORES WARETOWN WHITING Ocean County Library | Connecting People, Building Community, Transforming Lives | 1925 - 2017 Author Talk and Book Signing Checkout our 21 locations with Healing Medium, Anysia Marcell Kiel BARNEGAT · 112 Burr Street · 609-698-3331 Toms River Branch Manchester Branch BAY HEAD READING CENTER · 136 Meadow Avenue · 732-892-0662 Thursday, August 17 Thursday, August 31 BEACHWOOD · 126 Beachwood Blvd. · 732-244-4573 7:00 pm 7:00 pm BERKELEY · 30 Station Road · 732-269-2144 Ocean County resident and author of Discovering the BRICK · 301 Chambers Bridge Road · 732-477-4513 Medium Within, Anysia Marcell Kiel, will be visiting many · · of our branches on her Book Tour, discussing her new ISLAND HEIGHTS 121 Central Avenue 732-270-6266 book Discovering the Healer Within. The book · · discussion will be followed with a Q&A session. JACKSON 2 Jackson Drive 732-928-4400 Copies of this book will be available for purchase. · · Please go online or call your branch to register. LACEY 10 East Lacey Road 609-693-8566 LAKEWOOD · 301 Lexington Avenue · 732-363-1435 Brick Branch Pt. Beach Branch · · Thursday, September 9 Saturday, September 30 LITTLE EGG HARBOR 290 Mathistown Road 609-294-1197 2:00 pm 11:00 am LONG BEACH ISLAND · 217 S. Central Avenue · 609-494-2480 · · Berkeley Branch Upper Shores Branch MANCHESTER 21 Colonial Drive 732-657-7600 Wednesday, September 20 Saturday, October 7 · · 6:30 pm 2:00 pm PLUMSTED 119 Evergreen Road 609-758-7888 POINT PLEASANT BEACH · 710 McLean Avenue · 732-892-4575 Barnegat Branch Thursday, October 12 POINT PLEASANT BOROUGH · 834 Beaver Dam Road · 732-295-1555 6:00 pm STAFFORD · 129 N. Main Street · 609-597-3381 Lacey Branch TOMS RIVER · 101 Washington Street · 732-349-6200 Saturday, October 14 2:00 pm TUCKERTON · 380 Bay Avenue · 609-296-1470 UPPER SHORES · 112 Jersey City Avenue, Lavallette · 732-793-3996 WARETOWN · 112 Main Street · 609-693-5133 WHITING READING CENTER · Whiting Commons Shopping Center More dates and branches to be announced. 400 Lacey Road, Suite #5 · 732-849-0391 Please check with your branch. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter The Ocean County Library is on social media! Follow us at: Ocean County Library @oceancountylib “The Ocean County Library is a truly multicultural institution. We respect, honor www.theoceancountylibrary.org and celebrate individual and cultural differences. Our collections, programming, outreach, policies and personnel practices reflect this commitment. We are inclusive and understanding of our co-workers and of the communities we serve, and we seek out others to join us on this journey.” These are just a few of the many music programs we have coming up in August at the Ocean County Library. There’s something for everybody! Alex & the Summer BarnegatCalendar ..............................................August of 2017 Events2 Kaleidoscope: Breeze: BeachwoodTable ......................................... of Contents 4 Live in Concert Americana Berkeley............................................... 5 Ages 3 and up. REG Blues Brick..................................................... 7 An Evening of Music with Island Heights ................................... 10 Jackson ..............................................11 NJ’s own, James Dalton Lacey ................................................. 13 Lakewood .......................................... 15 Berkeley Branch August 3, 6:30 pm, Thursday Upper Shores Branch Little Egg Harbor .............................. 18 August 30, 7:00 pm, Wednesday Point Pleasant Beach Branch Adult program. REG Long Beach Island ............................ 20 August 14, 11:00 am, Monday All Library programs are free and open Manchester........................................ 22 to the public, but registration may be limited. To avoid disappointment, Plumsted ........................................... 24 H Allplease activities call posethe branch a degree where of risk. the We urge you to talk to your physician before Point Beach ....................................... 25 beginningprogram any exerciseis offered program to register. and to be especially careful if you have any health Point Borough ................................... 26 issues. If you experience any pain or discomfort associated with any activity, you Stafford .............................................. 28 should stop immediately to prevent injury. Toms River ........................................ 30 The Ocean County Library Tuckerton .......................................... 33 system makes every effort Broadway Tunes to provide access to our Elvis Unplugged Upper Shores .................................... 34 programs for people with with Cathy and Adult program. REG Waretown .......................................... 35 disabilities. Please call your Michael local branch prior to attending the program for special needs Chimenti arrangements. Adult program. REG Key Upper Shores Branch A Adult Program BD Book Discussion August 1, 7:00 pm, Tuesday Berkeley Branch T Teen Program FR Friends Program Point Pleasant Beach Branch August 9, 6:30 pm, Wednesday August 8, 2:00 pm, Tuesday TW Tween Program ED Exhibits & Displays Upper Shores Branch Tuckerton Branch August 8, 7:00 pm, Tuesday August 28, 6:00 pm, Monday CH Children’s Program COH Chapters of Health C Computer Class MKR Maker Program Call your branch or go online to register. F Family Program REG Please Register 36 1 F – 8/3, 6:30 pm, Thursday F – 8/10, 1 pm, Thursday BARNEGAT The Lizard Guys WARETOWN Movie: Beauty and the Beast 609-698-3331 Join these animal enthusiasts for a live 609-693-5133 Live action retelling of the Disney animal presentation with lizards, snakes, animated classic. (PG) 129 min. Please Register turtles, frogs, and various bugs. REG Please Register T – 8/12, 11 am, Saturday CH/F – 8/4, 11 am, Friday Magic the Gathering Freckles The Clown ED – Month August Drop in and play the popular card game. CH/TW/T – 8/1 – 8/15 Freckles will perform magic, make Retrospective of Portraits by Nancy REG Building Scavenger Hunt balloons, and have a whole bunch of Bonta Voitko Ask about our scavenger hunt. Prizes silly fun at the library. Ages 3+. REG Nancy trained at the New York Academy CH – 8/12, 10 am, Saturday for completion. of Art and has over 30 years’ experience Dog Days at the Library A – 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 1 pm, both as an artist and a teacher. The TW – 8/1, 11 am, Tuesday Mondays Join Dakota and his handler for a essence of her subject is what she aims Paint Party Monday Movie R.E.A.D. session. Dakota is a licensed to capture, giving the final outcome a Kids will make a teacher-guided 8/7: Rogue One (PG) 133 min. Reading Education Assistance Dog. timeless and intimate quality. painting. Wear clothes to paint in. 8/14: Before I Fall (PG-13) 99 min. Children will get a 10 – 15 minute Ages 7 – 12. REG 8/21: The Shack (PG-13) 132 min. session. Ages 5 and up. REG 8/28: Beauty and the Beast (PG) A – 8/2, 1 pm – 4:30 pm, Wednesday Understanding and Responding A – 8/1, 7 pm, Tuesday 129 min. T – 8/14, 6 pm, Monday Burr Street Books to Dementia Related Behavior and Smoothie Wars A monthly book café. CH/F – 8/8, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm, Support Group Facilitator Training Compete to make the best smoothie. Tuesday Learn to recognize and respond to ® REG StoryWalk on Burr Street dementia related behavior changes ® A StoryWalk will be set up along and learn to intervene in positive ways. A – 8/16, 2 pm, Monday the sidewalk of Robert L. Horbelt Program will be followed by support Elementary School leading to the library. Jakes Branch presents: group facilitator training. Presented by Start at the library or go directly to the Organic Gardening the Alzheimer’s Association. REG school to walk and read Over in the Interested in “greening” up your CH/F – 8/2, 11 am, Wednesday Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats. gardening but not sure where to begin? A – 8/3, 1 pm, Thursday Traveling Lantern Presents: Join us as we take a look at a few of Coastal Resiliency: Ways to Protect The Ribbles Build a Residence T/TW – 8/8, 1:30 pm, Tuesday the natural gardening practices that can Beaches and Bay By playing interactive games the Meteor Shower Cookies save not only the environment but save audience will assist the Ribbles in In anticipation of the Perseid meteor Dr. Amy M. Williams of Stevens Institute you money as well. REG building a new home for a better world. shower, in view Aug. 9 – 13, decorate of Technology and New Jersey Sea Ages 3+. REG cookies and learn about meteors. Grant Consortium will present on Ages 10 – 18. REG methods and techniques for managing C – 8/2, 2 pm, Wednesday coastal erosion in our current world. TechTopic: Social Media CH – 8/9, 8/23, 10:30 am, Wednesdays REG Get answers to your social media Drop-in Crafts questions from our teen volunteers. Drop by the kids’ zone for a craft. T – 8/7, 6 pm, Monday Ages 3+. Drop in. A – 8/24, 1 pm, Thursday Will it Waffle? T – 8/2, 7 pm, Wednesday Fake News! We will experiment by putting various Escape Room: Anime Edition T – 8/9, 6:30 pm, Wednesday Learn how to determine if a news story foods into a waffle iron to find out “will it Can you find the way out? Work with Gaming Tournament: is fake or fact. REG others to escape this anime infused Super Smash Bros. 4 (WiiU) waffle?” REG event. Ages 12 – 18. REG Compete to be the best in the library. FR – 8/25 & 8/26, Friday, 1 pm – 3 pm & Ages 12 – 18. REG A – 8/9, 8/15, 1:30 pm, Tuesday & Saturday, 10 am – 12 pm F – 8/3, 2 pm, Thursday Wednesday Friends Book Sale Table Top Game Day TW – 8/10, 6:30 pm, Thursday Mah Jongg Club Trotta’s Hobbies from Barnegat will be Tween Night stopping by with some of their favorites A fun night of crafts, snacks, and book A – 8/30, 2 pm, Wednesday games.