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Where can you find origami frog races, recycled rabbit art, and carrot crunching guests? At the library’s Leap Day Party! Families and youth of all ages are invited to join us in celebrating a day that only comes around every four years. Don’t forget to write a note and draw a picture for our Leap Day time capsule.

Pizza & Pages grew out of Teen Club, Betsy’s monthly series of parties, outings, and other fun get-togethers. The teens couldn’t get enough and wanted to meet more than once a month, so Pizza & Pages was born.

Betsy secured a monthly pizza donation from Vesuvio’s, our local Italian restaurant. Many of the teens in our community are busy – sports, farm work, college courses online. So instead of requiring everyone to read a long book alone before the class, Betsy reads a picture book with the group and they discuss. Sometimes the books are based on a historical event she can teach them more about. Sometimes they are a doorway into discussing deeper topics or emotions. As ever, Betsy’s programs are rigorously planned and meet educational objectives while providing a source of connection for the kids.

On average, Betsy’s teen programs boast 15 to as many as 25 attendees, some of whom use it as a first step in becoming more social. They know they are welcome and safe as they learn to branch out and make new friends

Presented by an expert from C&N Bank, this program is designed to help senior citizens navigate today’s various methods of banking. No registration required.

Improve your quilting skills in this small class. A year-long project will be introduced in September, offering flexibility for each participant’s needs and skill level.

In Taiji (Tai Chi) Fundamentals you will learn Taiji principles, Taiji QiGong (meditation with mindfulness), Taiji histories, and a path for further development. Take away practices and techniques that you can use to benefit your life forever.

This program is a three-month series of sessions that build upon each other. While absences sometimes cannot be avoided, please commit to attending all of the sessions in the program.

Instructor Shannon Luo has practiced Taiji (Tai chi) for more than 9 years under Master Sun ZhenKang. Shannon is a silver medal winner in 2018 and again in 2023, and a member of the USA WuShu Team for 2023 – 2025 (Internal Martial Arts).

Shannon founded Tao’s Taiji Academy (www.TaosTaiji.org) and has been researching ways and methodologies to enable students to learn Taiji correctly and effectively. Learning Taiji the right way is priceless.

Monday Meetups for ages 7-11 are all about fun and games. But they are also all about fostering social and emotional well-being in every participant. In every iteration, this program strives to empower each participant through cognitive challenges, positive social interaction, and active learning. Each meetup is planned with micro learning lessons, while still allowing for student choice to drive the direction of the day’s activity in a fun, low pressure environment.

Taking the pre-existing 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program which encourages families to read 1000 books with their children before starting kindergarten, we added incentives and activities using our Beanstack platform. Children receive a different incentive for every 250 books read (crayons, photos with a jumbo sign, free books, etc.) and are encouraged to complete activities that help them prepare for kindergarten. We also work with local partners to give out free books to children under age 5 throughout the community. For example, every newborn at Chambersburg Hospital goes home with a book.

Join Debbie Naha-Koretzky, “The Wild Edibles Lady,” for a foraging adventure to discover the edible plants of our area! The program will include a slide show followed by a foraging walk. Signed copies of her book, Foraging Pennsylvania and New Jersey (2021, Falcon Guides), will be available. The program will cover plant identification, safety, look-alike plants, sustainable harvesting, cooking with wild plants, and nutrition.

Debbie is a registered dietitian/nutritionist, Rutgers Master Gardener, Pennsylvania Master Naturalist, certified science teacher, and wild foods author. She has conducted countless foraging programs for state organizations, environmental centers, native plant societies, state parks and more. She received her master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition from New York University. This specialized training allows for a unique approach to wild edible plants.

Where can we find trustworthy news? What is credible on social media? How do I know whether this photo or that video is real? Michael Schroeder, Professor Emeritus of History at Lebanon Valley College, will offer guidance on how to acquire and practice information literacy, an essential skill for responsible citizens in today’s dizzying media ecology.
Michael J. Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of History at Lebanon Valley College in Annville PA, where his teaching has focused on the Atlantic World since ca. 1500, especially Latin America and the United States since the Age of Revolution. A social, cultural, and political historian whose research focuses on twentieth-century Nicaragua, he is co-author of the widely used college textbook The Twentieth Century and Beyond (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and author of numerous scholarly articles and chapters in his area of expertise. He is also author and administrator of an expansive digital historical archive on Nicaraguan history during the period of U.S. military intervention in the 1920s and 1930s (at www.SandinoRebellion.com). A member of the Nicaraguan Academy of Geography and History (Academia de Geografía e Historia de Nicaragua), he is also intimately involved in community work in the Lebanon Valley relating to watershed issues, the anti-fracking movement, racial justice, and historic preservation

Join us for an informative Financial Literacy class presented by Huntington Bank. Learn smart money management strategies from balancing a checkbook to keeping a budget.