Sunday, November 24, 2013

December Friends and library programs

December Programs

December 3, 2013, 2pm:  Come to Spoon River:  Come to Spoon River and see 30 characters from the 1890's in an hour!  Men, women, and children in the costumes/props of the era are skillfully portrayed by one talented woman Linda Gray Kelly.  Through Kelly's performance, audience members will hear juicy gossip about what REALLY happened back then and why Spoon River was called "the Peyton Place of its time, loaded with scandal."  LAUGH, CRY, ENJOY, REACT as these people let you know what their lives were all about; what their lives REALLY stood for . . . Come to Spoon River at the Port Orange Regional Library!

December 6, 2013, 9am to 4pm and December 7, 2013, 9am to 1pm:  Jingle Bells Book Sale:  Join us to benefit the library and for fantastic gift ideas--select from a wide variety of books, puzzles, dvds, vhs tapes, music and more!

December 10, 2013,  10am:  Florida Health Care Plan:  Florida Health Care Plan is an HMO with a Medicare contract.  This program explains President Obama's Affordable Health Care Act and the options available to the public under this law.  As a Medicare provider, FHCP presenters are also prepared to answer any questions you may have concerning the Medicare program.

December 12, 2013, 10:30am:  Handmade Holiday Ornament:  Turn back time and craft a handmade holiday ornament!  Join Cyndy and Erica to create your own Altered Book Christmas Tree ornament or a Tea Light Snowman ornament.  Limited to 15 participants so call early to reserve your spot!

December 13, 2013, 2pm:  Seasonal Baking with Chef Kathy!:  'Tis the season for baking!  Chef Kathy, a pastry instructor at Daytona State College, will show us how to bake a French silk pie and an artisan asiago and sun-dried tomato brule.

December 18, 2013, 10:30am:  Port Orange Library Book Club--The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell: New York City in the 1920s is a time of speakeasies and bathtub gin, an era when women smoke in public and bob their hair. An orphan raised by nuns, Rose Baker has learned to follow the rules as a means of self-preservation. Now employed as a typist in a New York City police precinct, she transcribes confessions that will eventually become irrefutable evidence in court. When an enchanting typist named Odalie joins the precinct, everything changes.