Library District #2 of Linn County

Serving La Cygne, Linn Valley, Lincoln Township, &

surrounding area for over 100 years.

April 1, 2015 Volume 13 Issue 4

Please check the calendar (right column) at www.lacygnelibrary.org for the most up to date schedule..and to sign up for programs! For all of you who like to plan ahead, Summer Library Camp will be June 1-4, 2015 and the theme is “Every Hero has a Story”

April 11—Annie (notice date change)

May 2—Unbroken—rated PG13

ALL MOVIES SHOWN IN SWAN ROOM @ 7 PM

BRING THE FAMILY, LAWNCHAIRS & SNACKS

CHILDREN UNDER 10 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED

BY AN ADULT!

SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIES

Calendar of Upcoming Events April 1—Genealogy Group—4 PM—5:30 PM

April 4—Support Scouts Pinewood Derby

April 5—Easter—No Craft Time

April 6—Adventures—4 PM

April 7—Get your Hometown Teams Tea Tickets $8, starting today.

April 7—10 AM or 4 PM—Preschool Story Hours (Peter Pumpkin Eater)

April 7—Library Board Meeting—5 PM

April 7—7:30 PM—Al Anon

April 8—Chamber meeting at noon

Aprill—11 Movie—Annie

April 12-18 —National Library Week “Unlimited Possibilities”

April 13—Adventures—4 PM

April 14—National Library Workers Day

April 14—10 AM or 4 PM—Preschool Story Hours —(Jack & Jill)

April 14—Al Anon—7:30 PM

April 20—24 Student Fine Arts Showcase in Swan Room

April 20—Adventures—4 PM

April 21—10 AM or 4 PM—Preschool Story Hours —Princess & Pea

April 21—Open House 4 to 6 PM Swan Room for Student Showcase

April 21—Friends of Library Board Meeting—6 PM

April 21—Al Anon—7:30

April 26—Spring Tea—Hometown Teams Themed 3 PM See article on

front page and get your tickets beginning April 7th.

April 27—Adventures—4 PM

April 28—10 AM or 4 PM—Preschool Story Hours—Jack & Beanstalk

April 28—Al Anon—7:30

May 2—Movie—7 PM—Unbroken

May 3—Adult Craft Time—Mary Gunn FUNN card craft time..1-3 PM

May 4—Adventures—4 PM

May 5—Story Hour—10 AM or 4 PM—Happy Birthday Theme

May 5—Board meeting—5 PM

May 5—Al Anon—7:30 PM

May 6—Genealogy Group at 4 PM

May 11—Last Adventures program at 4 PM

May 12—Last Story Hour—10 AM or 4 PM—Craft/Play Day

May 12—Al Anon—7:30

May 13—Chamber Meeting

May 17—Prairie View Senior Graduation at 2 PM

May 19—Al Anon—7:30 PM

May 24—11:00-12:30 Lunch at Museum (Freewill donation)

May 24—1:00 PM—Phil Dixon talks about KC Monarchs—Swan Room

May 24—Official kick-off of our Hometown Teams displays

May 25—Library Closed

May 27—Al Anon—7:30 PM

June 1-4—Summer Library Camp grade 3 completed and up 9 to 1 each

day.

June 8—Summer Reading Kick-off Program at 10 AM

CHECK THIS SERVICE OUT! The library now subscribes to two new data-

bases for your use: Freegal Music and Freegal

Movies. You must have a library card number

in order to access them and you will need to

come into the library so we can make sure that

your number has been entered in their data-

base. Click on the services tab on our website

www.lacygnelibrary.com and click on the pic-

tures to go to the site to enter your library card

number.

Freegal Music allows each patron to download

3 songs per week from their catalog of over 6

million songs. This can be used on your com-

puter, or on Apple devices and Android devices

using their free app. Freegal Movies allows

each patron to stream 3 Movies/TV programs

per week per patron.

Celebrate National Library Week 2015 (April 12-18, 2015) with the theme "Unlimited

possibilities @ your library®." (Our events are scheduled a week later April

19—26) with our “Unlimited Possibilities”

The staff at La Cygne Library would like to encourage you to check out the “Unlimited Possibilities” at our library during the month of April. Be sure to check the calendar on the back for all our programming dates. We have something for everyone from the traditional books, movies, story hour, magazines, and more to the more specialized offerings such as the tea party, Adventures (STEM) program, and Student Showcase. We invite you to visit the library this month, get your library card and get ready to join us this summer with our Summer Program “Every Hero Has a Story...Every Story Has a Hero”. The official National Library Week was created in 1958 to promote and celebrate libraries of all types, public, private, academic and school. Take some time during that week to let your librarians and staff know what you appreciate about your library. Tues-day, April 14th is set aside to recognize library staff across America and their contributions to your communi-ties. Stop in and say “Hi” that day and let us know what you appreciate about the “Unlimited Possibilities” that are found at the library.

Preschool Story Hour Schedule Tuesday—10 AM & 4 PM

(ages 3 years to 2nd Grade)

April 7—Peter Pumpkin Eater April 14—Jack and Jill

April 21—Princess and the Pea April 28—Jack & the Beanstalk May 5—Happy Birthday to you!

May 12—Craft/Play Day Preschool Story Hours will resume after

Labor Day weekend in September. Summer Reading Preschool Story Hours will be held on

Tuesday— Beginning June 9th at 10 AM and 3 PM.

8th Annual Student Showcase and Open House—Sponsored by Friends of the Library

You are invited to visit the library during the week of April 20-24th and view artwork by the students from La

Cygne Elementary school. On Tuesday, April 21st, from 4 to 6 PM, you are invited to an open house. The

Friends group will serve desserts and drink and Friends members and others will be on hand to talk about the

importance of fine arts in the school. It is amazing as I go back through the history of libraries in La Cygne,

they have always been strong supporters of not only reading and books, but they have been encouragers for

the fine arts. We are proud to continue that tradition over 100 years later. We are asking Friends of Library

members and other patrons to donate desserts for the open house and we hope you will come by, sign

the guest book and take a look at the “Unlimited Possibilities” created by our elementary school students.

Annual Spring Tea—Sunday, April 26th @ 3 PM “Hometown Teams” Themed this year! “Take me out to the ballgame”….I don’t care if it’s baseball, football, drag racing, volley-

ball, track, cheer, cross-country, marching band, wrestling...and many more...that I’m

probably forgetting...but one thing that binds our community and families together is sports

of one kind or another. In celebration of the collaboration with the Historical Society, Kan-

sas Humanities Council and the Smithsonian Hometown Teams events, we decided to

change up our tea and make it part of the year long celebration. Usually we ask you to decorate a table with

your favorites and we invite people to join you at your table, this spring it’s something different. The library staff

is going to decorate the tables in sports themes and invite you to join us for an afternoon tea. The tables will

feature various sport activities and the foods will reflect favorite team snacks. It is something entirely different

and we hope that it will get you thinking about all the Hometown teams that we will be featuring from May to De-

cember at the library and museum. The cost is an $8 donation to the 2015 Summer Reading Program. Tickets

will go on sale April 7th. Get yours today and join in the fun!

Help Us Walk the Smithsonian Exhibit from

Kansas Back to Washington DC.

We have several teams who have agreed to “walk for Home-

town Teams” and are donating their minutes to the cause.

The 8 week program starts March 15 and runs through May

9th. It is an 8-week healthy lifestyle challenge! (Just tell

them you want your walk to count for La Cygne’s challenge).

Watch for other healthy living and activity tips throughout the

program.

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Dates to Remember for

HOMETOWN TEAM EVENTS

April 1st—October Museum open 1—5 (Monday-Thurs) other

hours available by appointment. Activities & Displays at Mu-

seum & Library until Dec. 2015

April 26—Spring Tea—Hometown Teams Themed 3 PM

May 24—Museum Open House 11-12:45

1 PM—Phil Dixon—(Swan Room) Talk about KC

Monarchs playing “hometown teams” INCLUDING La Cygne!

June 22—Netting Out Basketball 6:30 PM Swan Room about

KU’s basketball beginnings.

Aug. 24—6:30 PM Kansas Humanities Speaker Laura Hartley

will talk about Title IX and sports in Kansas.

Sept. 11—Honor 45 Years of State Football Champions at li-

brary at 5 PM. Then “Break the Record” at PV as we try to

break a 45 year old attendance record at a PV High school

football game.

Sept. 12—Swan Fest with a “Home Town Teams” Flavor.

Looking for folks to make floats representing past and pre-

sent HOME TOWN TEAMS.

Sept. 21—Kansas Humanities Speaker Jordan Poland will talk

about Mascots at 6 PM in Swan Room.

Oct. 19—Kansas Humanities Speaker, David Sutera, 6 PM

Swan Room, talking about stadiums and ball parks.

Nov. 2—Book Discussion about Phil Dixon’s book.

Dec. 13—Christmas Homes Tour—Museum open.

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I must admit when I applied for the Hometown Teams

Grant, I was not sure what we would do, but I felt that

there was a lot of team history around La Cygne. I am

thankful to all who have loaned us items for this display,

it has mushroomed into quite a project. I have learned

more about sports and players and especially teams and

fan support as we’ve worked on this project. Thanks to

Library and Museum for sponsoring this and thanks

to Ruth Reynolds for spearheading displays and to

all her helpers...we have a display La Cygne will be

proud of!! Plan to visit it this summer!

March was a busy month and we had a lot of fun activities going on at the library. If I took the

space to thank all the people who made it happen, I wouldn’t have any room for all the neat

photos. So a big THANK YOU! to everyone who made these things possible. We appreciate it!