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What a great Music Night with Peter and Paula! Thank you both so much for volunteering your time and sharing your wonderful talents with us! It is always such a treat listening to your performance! Thank you to everyone who came out to support these amazing musicians and for supporting library programming!! Stay tuned for more upcoming Music Nights!
What a great Story Time with Maddy on Saturday! We read a story about being kind and a story about shapes! We were able to get comfortable on the flower cushions and talk about the stories we read! This was followed by a craft where we used all kinds of foam shapes and created some awesome artwork! Thank you Maddy for the amazing stories and thank you to all who participated! Stay tuned for more Grandma Story Times with Maddy!
Our Memory Boxes for Dementia and Alzheimer are ready for check out. Come in and ask us about the Memory Boxes. This project was funded in part by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program.
The Wawa Public Library is taking registration for our Reading Help program and the Kids Learn to Knit Program. If you are interested in these programs, please come to the library and fill out a registration form.
Firewolf is back to begin our celebration of First Nations Public Library Week with a painting session on October 3rd beginning at 11:30 a.m. Her teachings and stories of medicines, the Creator and Mother Earth and drumming are very inspiring, and her painting tutorials are amazing.
Following the afternoon painting with Firewolf, we are so pleased to have the Eagle Medicine Singers perform at the library! This is a three-generation trio who are simply amazing. Please join us at approximately 1:30 to hear the amazing singing and drumming of the Eagle Medicine Singers. Everyone is welcome.
We ask that you please register ahead as we have limited seating! If you register and cannot come, please let us know as soon as possible, as we usually have a waiting list of people.
New Books this week are “The Wild Beneath” by Kelly Anderson, “The Unkown Soldier” by Riley Sager and “You’ll Be Sorry” by Lisa Gardner. En Français, nous avons “De bon droit” par Chrystine Brouillet. Come in and check it out!
The Staff Pick of the Week is “The Quintland Sisters” by Shelley Wood. (3.64 Goodreads)
In Shelley Wood’s fiction debut, readers are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth.
Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse.
Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical “Quints” playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism and advertising dollars pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Marie, and Émilie. With her quirky eye for detail, Emma records every strange twist of events in her private journals.
As the fight over custody and revenues turns increasingly explosive, Emma is torn between the fishbowl sanctuary of Quintland and the wider world, now teetering on the brink of war. Steeped in research, Quintland™ is a novel of love, heartache, resilience, and enduring sisterhood—a fictional, coming-of-age story bound up in one of the strangest true tales of the past century.
New Movies on the Shelf this week are “Die My Love” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” starring Cillian Murphy and Ralph Fiennes and “Bugonia” starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons! Come on and check it out!
Afterschool Clubs: Join Madison as we kick off a fun new After School Program! There will be stories, crafts, clay, games and a whole lot of fun. Join Madison Tuesday- Friday for a variety of Club activities. Pamphlets for October – December are ready for pick up and can be downloaded from the Website shortly.
If your child is new to the program, parents or caregivers will need to fill out a registration form. If your child is a returning participant of the After School Programs, we ask that you review their registration form and make any necessary changes. We look forward to a busy school year and hope to see new as well as returning members of the Wawa Public Library’s After School Programs!
Another new season of Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop games begin in October! Eric is your Dungeon Master and is looking forward to sharing his knowledge and game play with newcomers as well as seasoned players! This program is open to ages 13+ and takes place at the Wawa Public Library every Tuesday beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Join us at the Wawa Public Library for September Mahjong! Dave will be here to teach any new players. If you want to try something different and meet some new people, come and checkout Saturday Mahjong with Dave.
Finger Weaving with Carolle is back! Wednesdays from 1- 3 p.m. Come in make a beautiful bookmarker.
Any seniors interested in joining our Knitting Connections please drop by the library for more information. Our current project is knitting for Chemo patients, young and old and we are knitting chemo hats, knockers, lap blankets, shawls and anything else that would aid in keeping someone warm and cozy during and after treatment. A huge THANK YOU to all our dedicated knitters!
If you are a senior who is unable to get out, the library offers a Senior’s Shut-in Program. We will deliver library materials to patrons living in the Wawa area.
We have a large selection of large print books and audio books for seniors and anyone else with sight issues.
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We have a great selection of books, magazines, DVD’s, Blu-rays, Audiobooks, French books, and more available for checkout.The newer magazines are one-week lending and the older ones are three weeks lending.And don’t forget our awesome Children’s collection and our growing Graphic Novel collection.
For the visually impaired, we have a Daisy Reader available for check out as well as books and magazines available on discs and a great selection of Audio Books and PLAYAWAYS.
Don’t forget that your library card gives you access to a huge selection of e-books, audiobooks and now MAGAZINES!Download the app to your computer, tablet or mobile phone and open up a whole new world of reading.With the Libby app you always have a book at your fingertips and it is FREE!Download it today!
We have two computers available for use and two workspaces if a patron would like to bring in their own laptop or tablet. Free WIFI is available.If you do not have a library card, there is a fee of $1.00/half hour for the use of a computer. We sanitize each work space after use.
The Wawa Public Library also has many other services available such as photocopying, faxing, laminating, printing, and conversion of VHS to DVD.For more information call the circulation desk at 705-856-2244 ext. 290 or email us at [email protected].
The Wawa Public Library welcomes the donation of gently used DVDs and books.What we don’t catalogue we put in our book sales.Thank you in advance for supporting the library!
Remember – library membership is FREE to residents of the Municipality of Wawa and contracting communities. All you need to provide is proof of residency. That would include any document or piece of identification that states both your name and street address. Membership forms can be found on our website at wawa.olsn.ca or come in and sign up at the Wawa Public Library. All are welcome!
Our drop box is in place for all returns. Please do not deposit batteries or ink cartridges in the drop box as they may damage our books.
LIBRARY HOURS – Saturday, Sunday & Monday-closed.The library is open Tuesday-Thursday from 11:00 am - 7:00 pm, Friday from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm and Saturday from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm.
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