Wednesday 22 July 2015

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Friday 22 August 2014

Summer Reading Program 2014 - Photos

Inventions, Flight, Space, Dinosaurs, Vikings, Mystery!
Professor Fisher and Professor Turner - Summer Reading Program Coordinators.
Taking apart and investigating phones and radios.


Stories in front of the Library.

Guest leaders from Chinook Arch Regional Library Systems.

Videoconference tour of the Tyrell Museum.

Crafting in the beautiful summer weather.

Portaging a "Viking ship" on the field.

Creating Viking lanterns.

Summer Reading Program participants with decorated Viking lanterns.

Brave Vikings!


Wednesday 11 June 2014

2014 TD Summer Reading Program

Tuesday, July 8/14 to Thursday, August 14/14

Kindergarten to Gr. 2: Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Gr. 3 to Gr. 5: Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Gr. 6 to Gr. 8: Thursdays 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Children unable to attend/participate in the Library program can still
record reading hours and receive prizes for every 10 hours.  
Register for the free, 2-month membership and ask for a reading log at the Library.

Register on-line or in the Library.




Summer Book Club for Teens

This summer, the Library is hosting a free book club for avid readers in grade 7 to 12.  Students are eligible for a free, 2-month membership.  For more information, please contact the Library.


Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - Pick up on or after July 1st
  • Discussion on Thursday, July 24/14 at 6:00 pm
  • Movie on Friday, July 25/14 at 6:00 pm
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - Pick up on or after July 28th
  • Discussion on Thursday, August 14/14 at 6:00 pm
  • Movie on Friday, August 15/14 at 6:00 pm

Monday 13 January 2014

2014 Winter Speaker Series



Author Talk - Christopher Hoare

WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 30/14, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
WHERE: Pincher Creek & District Municipal Library
WHAT:  Author Talk by Christopher Hoare on his new book, Steam & Strategem

From the author:
"Welcome to the Steampunk World of Regency…

…where the power of steam has already passed from the age of unsatisfactory experiments to the first country-spanning railways and ships that no longer sail at the whims of weather. Roberta Stephenson is the daughter of the ‘Father of Railways’…a girl almost raised in the engine works and through her experience, and education in the most advanced halls of Miss Mather’s Academy for Girls, is fit to become manager and designer at her father’s steamship yard on the Clyde.

And Britain needs Roberta’s expertise, for fate in this world has dealt more kindly with Napoleon, allowing him to extricate most of his army from Moscow in 1812, and granting him at least a draw at Leipzig in 1813. With developments of the steamships begun in France in 1783 he is ready to take one more gamble to rid himself of the interference of Perfidious Albion, and the island’s safety may depend on the steam powered rams Roberta is offering to their lordships of the Admiralty.  Complicating Roberta’s professional life are her romantic suitors: Lord Julian Bond, man about town and Admiralty spy; the enigmatic Symington Holmes; and Engineer Lieutenant Alfred Worthington RN. It seems that Roberta is destined to choose one of these gentlemen, but will she choose wisely?

- See more at: http://tychebooks.com/books/steam-and-stratagem/#sthash.Bmz2rTnY.dpuf

Bio
I was born an inauspicious three months before the Second World War started, and my father soon moved his new family to South Devon, close to his parents, for safety. I have since seen various maps of planned invasions of Britain that show our home as the location of the far left flank landing site in the Werhmacht's battle plans. I haven't always been that lucky, but I did go to secondary school after the 1945 Labour Government instituted the Butler Education Act, that opened the best schools to any of us rabble who could win a scholarship---which was as beneficial as not catching a jackboot up the backside.

At school, we were always reminded that we were the country's hope for the future, which was somewhat responsible for me soon heading out into the world of oil exploration and leaving Blighty forever. Postwar Britain just didn't have the knack of building hopes. Not that I didn't try...I had a go at engineering but I had missed that boat by about fifty years; and I joined the artillery, but the generals couldn't find a war while I was in. The only ambition I had ever formed was being a writer...so here I am.

Having no other outlet for an inquisitive mind I use all my varied life experience to create adventures for fictional people. I am rather fond of depicting strong and clever young women, especially when I can portray them in desperate situations that they handle better than their male superiors. The juxtaposition of Regency and steam in "Steam and Strategem" has been a good prompt for novel adventures, and having a completely anachronistic young protagonist match her wits and intelligence with a world of chauvinistic males has been fun. And don't mistrust my rendering of the steam in the steampunk...operating steam plant has been one of my varied waypoints."

For more information:
http://christopherhoare.ca
http://tychebooks.com/books/steam-and-strategem/
http://thewildcatsvictory.wordpress.com
http://www.xinxii.co.uk/visiting-pemberly-p-340249.html

Thursday 31 October 2013

Halloween Howl Oct. 29/13

Are you smarter than a crow?

Can you get the candy out of the holes?
Crows can use tools to retrieve food from tests like these.

Crow using a tool to acquire food.


Tempting treats in the Crow Test!
Spiders!


Staying very still...

Cassie the Sand Boa.  She is 20 years old!

Can you hear the owl calls that filled the library?

Using the multi-purpose room.  Is there Room on the Broom?

Our little bat friend