Summer at the library
Books and plants part of pop-up sale at McConnell
We’re just weeks away from the official start of summer and at the Cape Breton Regional Library, we’re gearing up for a busy summer with lots of programs and activities for everyone.
The summer reading program will launch at all regional library branches on June 23. The theme this year, Feed You Passions, will be used to develop a wide variety of programs in local libraries throughout the summer.
Children, ages five and up, can register to read fun books and at various milestones will receive stickers, books and prizes to encourage them to read. This free program is a way to keep children reading while they are out of school, helping them retain their reading skills.
Besides the reading program activities, there will be a science student creating fun science programs for children across the library region.
This is the sixth year for these popular science programs which are made possible through a grant from Young Canada Works. They make science concepts fun for children.
For a list of all the great events happening in libraries in our region, go to https://cbrl. ca/events/. This site is updated on a regular basis.
Much of what the regional library does happens with the support of various individuals, corporations and government agencies. The library organizes a number of fundraising events and issues requests to supporters in order to provide the many services and materials that people access.
In Baddeck, for example, the library staff has been doing interesting events like Living Mannequins, to help raise money for things like an annual movie licence, to show feature films.
The McConnell Library in Sydney has recently received a donation from CBCL to also purchase a film licence and will be soon showing films. Watching these films will be a lot more comfortable, thanks to the donation of comfy chairs from the Old Sydney Society and a donation from the Sydney Credit Union to purchase new comfy chairs.
These are just a few of the examples of how the community supports the library.
To raise money for the region, the library will be holding a garage sale, a pop-up book sale and a plant sale at the McConnell Library on Saturday, June 2, starting at 9 a.m.
The plant sale, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, and the garage sale, sponsored by RBC, will be held at the library’s garage on Charlotte Street in downtown Sydney.
These sales will run from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., rain or shine. The book sale will be held inside the library and will run from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. This will be a bag sale where you can purchase a grocery bag of books for just $5/bag.
Donations for the plant sale or garage sale would be greatly appreciated. Items can be dropped off at the McConnell Library all next week.
The plant sale will have a wide variety of perennial plants available, just in time for planting. If you are a gardener who is dividing plants, why not donate some plants for the sale? You can bring identified perennial plants to the McConnell Library.
For more information, call the library at 902562-3161. All proceeds from this one-day sale and other funding events, go toward the programs and services of the Cape Breton Regional Library. Stay posted for the next article for ideas for beach read books.