Now is the perfect time to make your house a haven of comfort and beauty, using your own hands. A great place to start is by getting ideas from Do It Yourself magazine, available on Flipster. The summer issue is full of ways to make that happen.
Inside this “Dream It, Do It” issue are many “how to” ideas. Here are just a few:
Store sports equipment and travel gear in underused garage space
Sew table linens
Use curb appeal tips to brighten the outside view
Make unique bookshelves
Craft a backyard retreat
Create vertical gardens
It’s easy to read Do It Yourself and all our Flipster magazines. Visit https://chescolibraries.org/downloads and scroll to Flipster to sign in with your library card.
We are holding our existing book groups as virtual programs. Please see our July titles and dates below. These groups are all being held online via Zoom. We are requiring registration for these online book groups in order to send out the Zoom meeting information. Click on the date below to register. Information on our adult book groups can also be found on our website: http://bit.ly/chescolibs-bookgroups.
The Page Turners Book Group will be back in September.
A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the program starts. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.
Looking for a different kind of novel? An epistolary novel is a story written as a series of documents, often in the form of letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. More recent formats include emails and blog posts. All offer a realistic view into the narrator’s life and story.
Here are some classic epistolary eBooks and eAudiobooks, ready for download.
Whether you’re already in the poultry business or want to know more about chickens and eggs, Backyard Poultry is a colorful look at chickens and their habitats and great source of information for all types of readers.
From show chickens to county affairs, this bi-monthly magazine offers expert advice on keeping your flock healthy, picking out the right rooster, as well as great recipes and feature articles.
In the June/July issue, read about a young entrepreneur’s journey in the poultry business and how organizations are leading young people toward the business.
Beginning June 5th, the Chester County WIC program transitioned alongside the Chester County Health Department into the “yellow” phase of the Governor’s reopening plan. This means that WIC staff have returned to a full-time operating schedule Monday through Friday. However, for the protection of staff and participants alike, WIC will continue to operate on a limited-contact basis with appointments conducted via phone call only and food benefits loaded via curbside pick-up. Participants with scheduled WIC appointments will receive a phone call from WIC staff 1-3 business days before their appointment to speak with a nutritionist and will be scheduled a time to come to their clinic for curbside pick-up afterwards. WIC is NOT able to service any walk-ins at this time. WIC has recently been approved to begin offering curbside pick-up services at our satellite clinic locations in Spring City and Phoenixville in July and will be offering curbside services at our Oxford satellite clinic as soon as we are approved to do so.
Any new applicants to the WIC program should call their local WIC clinic or complete a pre-application online at https://www.pawic.com/OnlineApplication.aspx (www.pawic.com then click “Get Started Online!”). Any current WIC participants who need an appointment should be directed to call their local WIC clinic. When calling the WIC clinic, please encourage participants to leave a message and WIC staff will return their call ASAP. Due to our current reliance on communications via phone, please encourage WIC participants to update their local clinic with any changes to their phone number so that they may be contacted.
West Chester/Phoenixville/Spring City WIC clinics: 610-344-6240
We are happy to announce that the Chester County and Henrietta Hankin Branch Libraries are offering Curbside Pick-Up starting Monday, June 15. The Chester County Library will also resume our outdoor Holdit Locker service on this date.
While our buildings will remain closed to the public, we are excited to be able to serve the community again by offering a way to deliver your pre-ordered materials that is safe for you and our employees!
Curbside Pick-Up Procedures Follow these 4 easy steps to schedule your curbside pick-up:
Know Your Library Card and PIN Numbers
You will need your library card number and PIN to reserve a time to pick up items.
Confirmation of Order Fulfillment
You will receive an email or text message, or paper notice via USPS mail, when your items are available for pick-up.
You can only make a reservation if you have items that are currently ready for pick-up.
Reserve Your Pick Up Time
In your email, there will be a link you can click on to go to the curbside reservation platform where you will be able to choose a date and time to pick up your order.
You can also make a reservation and manage your reservations online using this link.
How to Pick Up Your Items
Your materials will be checked-out to you, and placed in a paper bag, prior to pick-up. Your checkout receipt will be attached to your bag.
When you arrive at the library, please remain in your car and call us at the number listed below to let us know you are outside.
For pick-up at Chester County Library, call: 610-344-4642
For pick-up at Henrietta Hankin Branch, call: 610-344-4191
Once our library staff have placed your items on the table outside the front door you may approach and retrieve your items.
If there is another patron at the table, please wait until they have returned to their car before you approach the building.
Believe it or not, summer arrives at the Chester County Library and Henrietta Hankin Branch on June 15th! You are invited to join our Virtual Summer Programs. Imagine Your Story: Patch Power 2020 encourages you to discover your own stories while reading others’ stories in fiction and non-fiction.
Participants from Pre-K to Grade 5 are encouraged to read or listen to books every day for 30 minutes or more all summer and record your accomplishments through the Imagine Your Story: Patch Power 2020 website or app. You can also complete Missions, by completing at-home activties and attending Virtual Programs, to earn the 2020 patches!
Students in Grade 6 and up may join the Imagine Your Story: Teen Reading Club 2020! Teens are encouraged to read or listen to books for at least 60 minutes every day to earn a Reading Grand Prize at the end of the summer! They may also complete independent Missions to earn collectible mini-buttons!
Even children under 3 years can participate this summer by signing up for 1000 Books Before Kindergarten! Research has shown that listening to 1000 Books Before Kindergarten helps children to develop the important pre-reading skills that provide a solid foundation for learning to read — a key to learning and school success. Read at least 100 book this summer to earn a special award!
Journaling as a primary source document depicting turbulent times.
At this point in our journaling series, we’ve introduced the idea of journaling to your life and expounded upon its benefits as well as given you a couple ideas for formatting and content structure. But some of you might be at a loss for what precisely to write about.
I was watching a webinar a few weeks ago that was talking about something totally unrelated. It was a question and answer session with a group of authors of middle grade books. One of the questions asked was something along the lines of “how will this time of quarantine and COVID-19 affect your writing?” And one of the authors had an answer that honestly blew my mind a little bit. She said that writing about this time was important, not just for authors like her, but for everyone, because those documents chronicling life during this period will someday become primary sources for students and historians in the future.
Maybe this is not as mind blowing for you as it was for me, but it’s a perspective that I never considered before, that we can actively become a part of history in this way just by writing down our experiences. Historians are already beginning to compile primary source documents from regular people in order to gain a broader picture of what this time looks like in various parts of the world.
Furthermore, we might feel like we’re stuck in this time of sickness and anxiety and isolation, but thinking about it in terms of history like this is, frankly, a little reassuring. Humans have survived multiple pandemics before, just like we all learned as children in school; and while I don’t want to diminish the suffering and the death that many people are facing, and while we will certainly not come out of this unscathed, it is nevertheless comforting to know that we will be okay.
So if you’re looking for something to write about, write about your life. Someday, your life will be important to many different people, and at the very least you’ll be able to look back and say, “I survived that.”
Do you know about our Lion’s Roar magazine on Flipster? It shares Buddhist wisdom for your heart and mind. Inside this month’s issue are articles about how to be calm and resilient, tips for meditation, what to do in an emergency and book suggestions.
You can read Lion’sRoar for free with your library card. Here’s how:
Gaudenzia has launched The Treatment and Recovery Hotline! 1-833-976-HELP(4357)
Our new Hotline offers screened linkage to treatment facilities across Pennsylvania for the entire spectrum of care, including detox/withdrawal management, residential treatment, co-occurring residential treatment, outpatient treatment services, women and children’s services, and other programs tailored to specialty populations.
When can I call the Hotline?
The Hotline is available 24/7.
Who can call the Hotline?
Anyone from first responders, warm hand off staff, loved ones, people seeking help for themselves, all of our partners, and other treatment providers.
Where is the Hotline Located?
The hotline is located right here in Pennsylvania at the Coal Twp. Facility of Gaudenzia’s Central Region. Our Hotline team is made up of trained Gaudenzia staff.
To access help through Gaudenzia’s Treatment and Recovery Hotline, please call 1-833-976-HELP(4357).
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