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Between The Lines

Sherrard Public Library District

Spring 2007

Dreams Grow at the Library!

205 5th Avenue, PO Box 345, Sherrard, IL 61281-0345

(309)593-2178

www.sherrardlibrary.org

Cemetery Stroll

June 9th at 10am we will gather at your

Sherrard Library for the second annual

stroll through Sherrard cemeteries. Our

host and hostess, Ron and Marlene Parker,

will guide visitors to each cemetery where

friends and relatives of those departed may

be dressed in period costumes sharing the

celebration of life articles from family

Bibles and newspapers. If you have a

family member you would like to have

recognized, please contact the Library.

Box lunches will be prepared by Cookie

and Denny Dean. Beverages will be

included. Please bring your own lawn

chair for use during lunch. Cost of the

event is $15.00. Transportation will be

provided. Call your Library at 593-2178

for reservations.

Yard Sale

Are you looking around your house at all

the extra clutter? Wondering what you

should do? Come into the Library and

day, Saturday, June 2nd. Turn your clutter

into someone else's treasure and make

some money doing it. Library will start

Have Brunch at a Springtime

Celebration Tea

Memories of our first Tea linger while

we plan our encore event May 5th. Anita

Purcell and Margie Gundling proprietors

of Mrs. McGregor's Cottage in the Village

of East Davenport will tantalize us with a

Brunch of ham strata, scones with creme

fraiche, fruit, finger sandwiches, sweets

and delightful teas. Brunch will be served

at 11:00am. Tickets are $15.00.

Celebrate Spring with your friends and

your special tea cups!! Hope to see you

and a friend on May 5th.

Learn to Watercolor

Landscapes

Beginning April 19th and continuing for

four weeks your instructor will teach

techniques using watercolors and tools

to create your own masterpieces. Plan to

come for one or all four classes. Call your

Library for details and to register for this

exciting program. Cost and exact times are

yet to be determined.

Container Planting at Corn Crib

Dwayne and Kenny White, owners, have

invited us again this spring to the Corn

Crib where we will select materials from

their greenhouse to plant in our own pots.

At the end of the evening everyone will

have an instant array of color to proudly

display on our porch or patio. We will all

meet at the Corn Crib at 6:30pm on May

23rd for this event. Bring your own con-

tainers and planting tools. The only cost

will be the materials you purchase from

the Corn Crib.

Parenting Power

I am a mother of two young boys. My old-

est is four and just went in for his preschool

screening. When the teacher came to take

my son back to the room for the screening,

he wouldn't go. He started crying, clutch-

ing my shirt like it was a life line. I asked

one of the assistants later in the screening if

other mothers went through the same thing

I did. Her reply to me was that I had been

the only one. My initial reaction is `some-

thing is different about my child, why can't

he be like the other kids?'

If you are a parent like me who would like

to talk to other parents about your own ex-

periences and concerns with your child in a

casual atmosphere, please join me, Chelsey,

Thursday, April 19th around 6pm. The first

initial meeting will be here at the Sherrard

Library, but if you would like to meet at

other places we can work that out. Feel

free to bring your kids. Call the Library at

593-2178 to sign up.

Stop in and check out all of the items we

were able to add to our collection through

this grant. There are books, DVD's, and

audio books on a wide range of subjects:

traveling, family vacations, financial ad-

vice, areas of play and sports, cooking with

kids, raising children from birth through

teen years, craft projects for the family, and

exercise.

Funding for this grant was awarded by the Illi-

nois State Library (ISL), a division of the Office

of Secretary of State, using funds provided by

the Institute of Museum and Library Services

(IMLS), under the federal Library Services and

Technology Act (LSTA).

Digitize Your World

Do you have a pile of old bills that need

to be filed, or a tall stack of magazines

that you need to go through? Kirby

McLaughlin will take us through the steps

of scanning items into your computer and

then burning them on to a CD. This class

has endless organizational possibilities:

pictures, bills, tax forms, recipe cards,

newspaper articles, and projects from

magazines. No more piles of clutter. Take

this simple but informative class, Monday,

May 14, at 6:30. Class size is limited to 5

people. Please call the Library to sign up.

From your parents you learn love and

laughter and how to put one foot before

the other. But when books are opened

you discover that you have wings.

-Helen Hayes (1900-1993)