February Friends & library programs

Blood Pressure Check
Monday, February 2 & 16
9:30am to 10:30am
JoAnn Maurice of Volusia/Flagler YMCA offers an informational blood pressure check.

All About Bromeliads
Tuesday, February 3, 2pm
Jay Thurrott of the Florida East Coast Bromeliad Society discusses the basics of caring for bromeliads.  Come and learn the tips and tricks to these beautiful plants.

Master Gardener Plant Clinic
Tuesday, February 10, 2pm - 4pm
Bring in your sick plants for care-taking tips!  Master Gardeners from the UF/IFAS Volusia County Extension will troubleshoot your roots and suggest a course of treatment for your ailing plants.

Penny Musco presents Steal Away
Friday, February 13, 2pm
A dramatic one-woman show about a little-known migration of African-Americans.  Set in the 1880s, it is told from the perspective of Priscilla, a white woman who leaves the East to homestead in the Plains with her husband and children.  She crosses paths with Abigail and her family, former slaves who fled the South after Reconstruction ended.

Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher
Sunday, February 15, 2pm
Peter will perform selections from his all Grieg CD, released by Centaur Records in 2014.  The piano works on this CD were transcribed for the guitar by Peter himself.  The program also features an original arrangement of the traditional Shaker hymn Simple Gifts.

Sodium in your Diet
Monday, February 23, 2pm
JoAnn Maurice, a healthy living coordinator with Volusia/Flagler YMCA, provides information on the level of sodium in different types of foods and on the impact of sodium on our health.

Safe Home Remedies for your Garden
Tuesday, February 24, 2pm
Kevin Bagwell of Full Moon Natives Nursery presents information about safe garden pest control and fertilization.  It's easy, economical and best of all no harmful chemicals.  Most of us already have the ingredients on-hand, such as bountiful Florida citrus.  Come discover Kevin's Natural Solutions secrets!

The Storytelling Sims present "Swamp Cabbage Chronicles"
Friday, February 27, 2pm
The Sims are bringing a basket full of tales brimming with nostalgia, laughs, information, and even truth.  This duo will dig deep into its southern folklore and traditional tales to make ordinary memories into side-splitting reality.  A "must see"!

February movies

Afternoon at the Movies (All Films Start at 2 p.m.)

2/02/2015: The Good Lie, Rated PG-13, 110 minutes: A Sudanese refugee is taken in by a straight-talking American woman in their new home in the United States.  Reese Witherspoon stars.

2/09/2015: Magic in the Moonlight, Rated PG-13, 97 minutes: Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie, as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead. Colin Firth and Marcia Gay Harden star.

2/16/2015: Mr. Pip, Rated PG-13, 116 minutes: As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.  Hugh Laurie stars.

02/23/2015: Elsa and Fred, Rated PG-13, 97 minutes: "Elsa and Fred" is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true.  Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer star.

Sunday Cinema (All Films Start at 2 p.m.)

2/01/2015: Dinosaur 13, Rated PG, Todd Douglas Miller's documentary Dinosaur 13 focuses on Peter Larson, a paleontologist whose life changes after he unearths the largest and most well-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found. He ended up having to do legal battle with other scientists, as well as with the government in order to keep control over his historic discovery.