Young Adults

*Summer Creative Writing: Attention rising eighth and ninth graders – Creative Writing Summer Camp has room for you. Local author and educator Joan Verniero will host the camp designed to foster a love of reading and writing, assisted by volunteers from the library’s adult creative writing groups.

Camp will meet on Thursdays, July 1, 8, 15, 29, and August 5, from 2 to 4 pm.  Space is limited to 10 students for those who will be entering grades 8 and 9 in the fall.

(A morning session for rising grades 6 and 7 is full, but a wait list has been started.)

Sign up at the main floor circulation desk or call.

*Volunteer This Summer: Young adults entering sixth grade and up are invited to earn volunteer hours this summer at C.H. Booth Library by helping with our summer reading program.

Volunteers will be on duty during the library’s open hours, June 30 to August 4, listening to reading reports and giving children the rewards they have earned.

There will be two orientation sessions, June 2 and 7, from 4 to 5 pm. If you’d like to volunteer this summer you must attend one of the sessions and return your application form no later than June 12. Due to the large number of young adults who wish to participate, no applications will be accepted after June 12.

Adult Programs

*Free Blood Pressure Screening: Ashlar of Newtown will sponsor its next free blood pressure screenings on Wednesday, May 26, from 10 am to noon. Ashlar sponsors a free blood pressure screening in the genealogy room on the last Wednesday of every month. No registration is required.

*Newtown a la Cannes: Booth Library’s foreign film series “Newtown a la Cannes” will resume on Thursday, May 27, with a 7:30 screening of the award-winning independent film Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets.

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are a group of street urchins struggling to survive on the hard streets of Casablanca.  Their lives are filled with violence, begging and indifference. Please note the film portrays some adult situations, hard language and violence.

*Computer Classes: An intermediate class is scheduled for Saturday, May 22. There is a $10 charge for the intermediate class.

The next class for beginners is scheduled for Saturday, June 12, from 9 am until noon. A hands-on introduction to computers designed for the true beginner, these classes focus on keyboard keys, shortcuts and function keys, mouse skills, and getting started on the Internet/World Wide Web. There is no charge for the beginner’s class, but registration is required.

*Book Club To Meet: The Non-Fiction Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, June 1, at 1 pm, to discuss The Killer Angels by Jeff Shaara.

Newcomers are always welcome. Please call the library to register.

*Bottles Of Hope Workshop: Tracy Van Buskirk will conduct two Bottles of Hope workshops. Participants will decorate small glass bottles with clay designs to be given to cancer patients and survivors.

The workshops are scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, from 10 am until noon and 7 to 9 pm. Any children between the ages of 8 and 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

No artistic ability is required and all materials will be provided. Sign up at the circulation desk or contact Ms Van Buskirk, 426-3014, for additional information.

C.H. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street, can be reached at 426-4533. Winter hours are 10 am to 8 pm Monday through Thursday, noon to 5 pm on Friday, 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, and 1 to 5 pm on Sunday.