We only had one person sign up. Maybe we will try again in a few months.
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 Jenna Smith,University of Illinois Extension Registered Dietitian will be at the library on Thursday, September 24th at 6:30 pm to present, Eating to Reduce the Risk of Diabetes.
This program costs $3 to attend, to help pay for the cost of the food that Jenna will prepare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of American adults have prediabetes, and 90% of them don’t even know it. Higher than normal blood glucose levels raise your risk of heart disease and stroke, as well as type 2 diabetes. Learn about small steps you can take to lower your diabetes risk in this program. You’ll take home a packet of recipes and diabetes information.  Join us on Tuesday, September 17 at 6 pm for a presentation by Nick Bartholomew of the Illinois Storm Chasers. The presentation is open to all ages but please everyone be courteous to the speaker and the rest of the audience.
Please register for this presentation so we can plan the event accordingly.  We had a very good discussion on the book, Soar by Joan Bauer. Everyone really liked it. I think it would be a great book for a young person to read.
Our next book is Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer. We had a good crowd for the presentation by Candace Summers of the McLean County Museum of History. It was about Lucy Orme Morgan and the Girl's Industrial Home in Bloomington. The audience enjoyed her presentation very much. We gave away a Dairy Queen gift certificate as part of the raffle that we do with our adult presentations. And of course I forgot to take a picture!
Thank you Candace and thank you audience members!  Daryl Carlson of the Alzheimer's Association has rescheduled the Dementia Conversations Class for Tuesday, August 27th at 5:45 PM at the El Paso District Library. This is a free class.
Please stop by or call the library at 527-4360 if you would like to sign up for this class. We need to have 6 people pre-registered for the class to take place. So far we only have one person registered. Tonight is the presentation 'Lucy's Girls: Lucy Orme Morgan and the Girl's industrial home'!8/20/2019  The presentation by Candace Summers of the McLean County Museum of History's Speakers' Bureau will take place at the El Paso District Library at 6:30 pm tonight, Tuesday, August 20th!
I would encourage any interested in local history to help support the mission of the McLean County Museum of History by becoming a member. We are very lucky to have such a high quality museum in our area! If you have not registered, you can still attend. All you have to bring is your enthusiasm!  Do you like to cook?
Do you enjoy tasting a wide variety of food? Would you enjoy cooking a dish and sharing it with others at a meeting? I haven't got all the details ironed out but I am thinking the meetings will be once a month on a Thursday at 3 pm or 4 pm. If you think you would be interested, sign up at the library front desk or call us at 309-527-4360.  We need people to register for our presentation by Candace Summers of the McLean County Museum of History. The presentation is titled, 'Lucy's Girls: Lucy Orme Morgan and the Girl's Industrial Home'. It will be held at the El Paso District Library on Tuesday, August 20th at 6:30 pm. This is a free event and open to the public!
The speakers from the McLean County Museum of History's speaker's bureau do a wonderful job with their presentations. We are very lucky that they are willing to come to our small town and talk to us about these interesting historical topics. Please support the library and the McLean County Museum of History by registering for this interesting program. Program Description: Lucy Orme Morgan was a woman who was passionate about social welfare and was active in numerous philanthropic activities throughout her lifetime. However, her passion (and what would become the most distinguishable effort in her life) was the Girl's Industrial Home. Founded in 1889, the Girl's Industrial Home was a place for dependent children who were neglected or had no one to care for them. It was an institution where girls would be taught useful things to prepare them for a life of independence when they were of age. To Lucy, it was her "hobby" to make it "a home and keep it as far as possible from being an institution." For more than 30 years, the Home flourished under her watchful eye. And because of her service to that institution, the board of the Home honored that service by renaming it as "The Lucy Orme Morgan Home" in 1929.  Daryl Carlson of the Alzheimer's Association has rescheduled the Dementia Conversations Class for Tuesday, August 27th at 5:45 PM at the El Paso District Library. This is a free class.
Please stop by or call the library at 527-4360 if you would like to sign up for this class. We need to have 6 people pre-registered for the class to take place. |
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