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F r i e n d s o f t h e C a d i l l a c W e x f o r d

P u b l i c L i b r a r y N e w s l e t t e r

September 2019 Vol. 20 No. 6

Saturday, September 7 at 11 am ∞ Library Community Room

Midnight Heroes—Titanic’s Musicians

The eight young band members on the Titanic played to the end. These

talented musicians were true heroes. A comprehensive story of the

Titanic’s band is rare. A photo biography of each musician and the

legacies that each left behind, creates a captivating and an emotionally

moving topic.

David Kaplan’s interest in the Titanic was

first sparked at seeing the earlier movie of

the same name in 1953. He has been a

Titanic historian for 50 years. He has met 18 survivors and visited world-wide Titanic

related sites. He is a member of the Titanic Historical Society, the Titanic International

Society and the Titanic Society of Atlantic Canada.

Jan Coppola Bills is the author of Late Bloomer, a certified landscape designer, advanced master gardener, entrepreneur, and contributing writer for State-by-State Gardening magazines.

After a successful career in the corporate world, she made a major life reassessment and followed her heart: She traded in her heels for Wellies and started the Detroit-area landscape design company Two Women and a Hoe®.

Saturday, October 5 at 1pm ∞ Community Room

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library & Cadillac Garden Club

Two Women and a Hoe®

My favourite poem is the one that

starts 'Thirty days hath September'

because it actually

tells you something.

Groucho Marx

“Gardening has always been in my bloodstream, but for those starting in the second half of life, this honest, forth-

right book offers a generous, lighthearted approach to gardening and dresses it with humor and wisdom. It’s a must

for every late bloomer.” ~ P. Allen Smith, Television Host, Designer, Gardening & Lifestyle Ex-

Autumn FOL Used Book Sale—coming October 24—26

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Please support our fellow Cadillac Arts Council (CAC) member organizations: Next CAC meeting is on Monday, September 23 at 7pm at UpNorth Arts

Cadillac Footliters—presenting Addams Family, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, October 17-19 all at 7pm. Also on Thursday & Friday, October 24-25 at 7pm. Saturday, October 26 at 2pm only. Cadillac High School Audito-rium. $10 in Advance, $12 at the door. Tickets available at Horizon Books, Brinks Custom Framing and UPS Ca-dillac or call 231-775-7336

Cadillac Garden Club—”Restoring Biodiversity to Home Landscapes” with Ranger Steve Mueller from Ody Brook Nature Center, Cedar Springs. UpNorth Arts Center on Monday, September 9 at 7pm. Please call Vickie Essenmacher at 231-510-9047 for more information.

Cadillac Philharmonic Club— Lunch and Business meeting, September 9, 12:30pm @ Zion Lutheran Church. No music that day. Luncheon from Hermann’s $13, reservation for lunch is required. Annual awards tea - October 14, @ 4 PM. @ Zion Lutheran Church. Winners of

awards to summer music camps will perform. Refreshments follow. Free. All are welcome.

Gopherwood— Escaping Pavement, Saturday, October 5. Note new time: 7pm. Cadillac Elks Lodge. $15 in advance $18 at the door, $7/$9 students 13-18, 12 & under free. Tickets at Toy Town, After 26 Depot Café, online at My North Tickets or call 800-836-0717.http://gopherwoodconcerts.org/

Up North Arts — Events and classes taking place year round. Gift shop open 11am—4pm, Tuesday—Saturday. 601 Chestnut. For more information about class registration, store hours and future classes go to up-northartsinc.com or call 231-468-3040. Coming up— classes in clay, jewelry, ukulele, calligraphy, felting, mah-jong, painting, mosaics, coloring, printmaking, and open artists studio most Thursdays 12 –3pm!

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Thanks to artist, Michael Sincic, and historian, Dianna Stampfler, on their programs in June. To our FOL members who helped at the Festival of the Arts Used Book Sale in July. To those of you who donated books as well as those of you who bought books (for many, you are both—donors and buyers—thanks!!) Thanks to the CWPL for bringing author, Elizabeth Berg, to present on her newest book series in August and allowing FOL to help out with dessert and flowers for each

attendee. Those books are now available at the library.

To learn more about the many family, teen, and children activities and events at the Cadillac Wexford Public Library, please go to their website:

https://www.cadillaclibrary.org/

As noted in “The State of

America’s Libraries 2019”

a report from the American

Library Association.

http://gopherwoodconcerts.org/https://www.cadillaclibrary.org/

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Adult Literacy program is available to help adults (18 and over) to learn to read or to learn to read better. Also, tutors are available to those who want to learn to speak English as their second language.

If you would like to learn more about becoming a tutor, attend our tutor orienta-tion on Wednesday, October 2. Training will take place on Saturday, October 12. To sign up and to learn more, please call Barb Derby at 775-6541, or email literacydirector@gmail.com.

Call the Adult Literacy Council of the Friends of the Library at 231-775-6541 to learn more infor-mation about becoming a student or tutor or go to www.cadillacliteracy.org

Manton Library Building Fund

Help Build the New Library! Want to help? Looking for monetary and In-kind donations. Help us raise funds! Donors can go on-line to “Network for Good” and look for Friends of the Cadillac Wexford Pub-lic Library, designating the Manton Library for he funds.

Buy a Brick! Engraved Brick of your own design! Purchase a 4x8 brick for $150 or 8x8 brick for $300 each. If you have questions or want to learn more about the Manton Library, please contact Amanda Kimbel at 231-878-7467.

FOL coming up end of Summer / early Autumn:

FOL meeting Tuesday, September 17, 5:30pm

FOL Annual Meeting Tuesday, October 15, 5:30pm. Includes election of new officers.

National Friends of the Library Week October 20—26

FOL Used Book Sale October 23—26. Looking for volunteers. Please call Pat McRoberts at 231-389-0231.

All activities are in the Library Community Room.

Contact Information

Library General Information 231-775-6541

Program Information Vickie Essenmacher 231-510-9047

FOL Membership Info Vicki Long 231-884-1663

Adult Literacy Program Barb Derby 231-775-6541

C heck out the ongoing Used Book Sale in the BlackBook-Case by the quiet room in the Library.

Hardcovers $1.00 Paperbacks $.50

Hundreds of $$$ raised each year. Thanks!

YES!! We are still collecting Spartan

Receipts (i.e. Family Fare), after

having earned our first $1000. We

need the ENTIRE receipt; please do

not cut any of the receipt off. There is

a green box on top of the Blackbook-

case by the Quiet Room to place them

in. THANK YOU!!

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YES, I want to be a FRIEND of the Cadillac Wexford Public Library

Name _________________________________Phone __________________Today’s date__________

Address________________________________________City______________________State_____

Zip__________ Email Address_________________________________________________________

_____I want to be a Book of the Month friend/teen/family—Here’s my annual $5.00 membership fee

_____I want to be a Newberry Prize winning friend/family—here’s my annual $10.00 membership fee

_____I want to be a Pulitzer Prize winning friend/family here’s my annual $25.00 membership fee

_____I want to be a Nobel Prize winning friend/family—here’s my _________annual membership fee

_____Here’s my RENEWAL fee __________. Please tell us the # of years you are paying for: ________.

_____I want to be an ACTIVE member of the FRIENDS. Please give me a call.

_____I would consider making a gift to Friends of the Cadillac Wexford Public Library through my estate plan

or will.

Please make checks to: Friends of the Library and mail to CWPL, 411 Lake St, Cadillac 49601

Questions—Please call Vicki Long at 231-884-1663 Thank you for your support!

Friends of the Cadillac Wexford Public Library

411 South Lake St.

Cadillac, MI 49601

231-775-6541

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