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Welcome
to Reading is Fun Week, Consumer Awareness Week, National Organize Your Files
Week, Young People’s Poetry Week, and Egg Salad Week, which is dedicated to
the many delicious uses for all of the Easter eggs that have been cooked,
colored, hidden, and hopefully found!
Today
is Blah Blah Blah Day, a day to do whatever suits you – stop smoking, take out
the trash, empty the cat litter, lose weight, pick up your clothes, get a job,
or just take a nap. Wednesday is
Pet Owners Independence Day, so let your pets do all of the work.
Saturday
is Kindergarten Day, celebrated on the birth anniversary of Friedrich Froebel
(1782), who established the first kindergarten in 1837.
Monday celebrates the opening of the First Public School in America, the
Boston Latin School, in 1635. Monday
is also the anniversary of the day in 1896 when the First Movie Theater Opened
in New York City. Up until this
time, people saw films individually by looking into a Kinetoscope. This was the
first time in the United States that an audience sat in a theater and watched a
movie together.
WHAT’S
HAPPENING?
Wednesday’s
10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. story times feature poetry and Mother Goose in stories
and crafts. Saturday morning’s
10:00 story time celebrates gardening. On
April 27, the library’s Free Fourth Friday Fun for Adults program will show
you how to make decorative papers for stationery, cards, and other projects.
Attendance is limited to 20 adults, so get your spot reserved now by
calling 622-7101 and asking for the Children’s Department.
BOOK
TALK
Librarian
Barbara Harris provides this week's book information.
For some baby boomers, being home for the Easter holiday
meant confronting the reality of their parents' aging.
For them and for others facing their elders' growing lack of
independence, the Library has books to help with many difficult decisions.
"As Parents Age" by Joseph A. Ilardo and "How to Care for
Aging Parents" by Virginia Morris are useful guides to a variety of topics.
Ilardo's book is notable for checklists and questionnaires that help
organize your thoughts and evaluate options.
Morris is especially helpful concerning the details of physical care.
"The Complete Eldercare Planner" by Joy Loverde has a documents
locator and other tools for getting information in order.
Sometimes the death of one of the parents or increasing disability makes
a change in living arrangements necessary.
"When Aging Parents Can't Live Alone" by Ellen F. Rubenson and
"Moving Mom and Dad" by Sarah Morse and Donna Quinn Robbins describe
the options available for older people of various circumstances and conditions.
"Family Realities" by Lucy F. Wold and Ann F. Andersen leads
you through the process of clearing out a family home and settling an estate.
Dealing with aging parents can be very difficult emotionally.
In "Children of a Certain Age," Vivian E. Greenberg examines
how relationships between parents and their adult children change over time and
encourages families to use this change to resolve both old and new problems.
Mary Pipher explains how to communicate with a generation that grew up in
a different world with different values in "Another Country."
"Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents" by
Claire Berman includes chapters on dealing with siblings, coping when you're an
only child, and caring for a parent who lives across the country.
DID
YOU KNOW?
According
to a study by the University of Utah Medical Center, not enough people call 911
when they experience severe chest pain. Eighty-nine
percent of people surveyed said they would call 911 in such a case and ride to
the hospital in an ambulance. In
reality, on 23% of people with severe chest pain get to hospitals by ambulance;
61% are driven by someone else; 16% drive themselves.
THOUGHT
FOR THE WEEK: "I don’t ask much from
life. I just want my children to
have all the things I could never afford, and then I want to move in with
them.”
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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