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Spring 2015
Newfane Public Library
A gateway to knowledge for
100 years!
Think Spring (Even Though It Feels Like Winter)!
If you are planning on
putting in a garden this
year, whether you’ve done
it every year or it’s your
first time, the Library has a
collection of books and
magazines to meet your
needs!
Our “Gardening” section
has everything from
growing
vegetables,
herbs and
flowers as
well as lawn
care, putting
in a pond,
and landscaping ideas.
We even have books on
growing and
maintaining
fruit trees! If
you are
considering
raising
chickens or other small
livestock, or even trying
your hand at beekeeping,
check out our “Farming”
section.
Our in-house magazine
collection includes such
publications as “Garden
Gate”, “Mother Earth
News” and “The Family
Handyman”. The latter two
titles are also
available
online through
Zinio (visit our website at
NewfaneLibrary.org) as
well as “Container
Gardening” and “Organic
Gardening”. These digital
titles can be downloaded to
your laptop, tablet, Kindle,
or other electronic device
with your library card.
Plan on eating healthier
this year? Want to include
more fresh produce in your
diet? Need some ideas?
The Library has a
collection of cookbooks to
help you, including such
titles as:


The One-Block Feast:
An Adventure in Food
from Yard to Table
Grow Cook Eat: A
Food Lover’s Guide to
Vegetable Gardening
Inside this issue:
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
Go Fresh: A HeartHealthy Cookbook with
Shopping and Storage
Tips
Cooking From the
Farmer’s Market

Eating Local: The
Cookbook Inspired by
America’s Farmers

Farmer’s Market
Desserts
Be sure to check out the
article on Cornell
Cooperative Extension on
page 3. They are a
wonderful resource when it
comes to determining
what type of soil you have
as well as how & when to
prune and trim bushes and
trees!
Programming Input
Needed
2
Kids Programming
2
Spring Computer Classes
2
Cornell Cooperative
Extension
3
New Books & DVDS
4
Library Hours & Contact
Information
4
Services Available @
The Library
 Photocopying: Black and
White 20¢ per page, 30¢
double -sided. Color 50¢ per
page, 75¢ double-sided.
 Faxing: $1 first page sent,
50¢ every page after. 25¢
per page received.
 WiFi for personal devices
 Computers for public use with
Internet and Microsoft Word,
Excel & PowerPoint
Programming Input Needed!
We need your help! The
Library is looking for
programming ideas, as well as
WHEN to have them? Is there
a day of the week and/or a
time period that would be
better for you? Weekday mornings,
afternoon or evenings?
Saturdays? What kind of
programming would you prefer?
Educational? Entertaining?
We’d like to hear from YOU, our
patrons, on what you’d like to see at
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YOUR library. Stop by the library
sometime, or drop us an email at
[email protected]. Be
sure and check out the computer
classes we have coming up (listed
below) - we need your help there as
well!
Spring Story Hour, Family Story Time & Poetry Contest
Spring Preschool Story Hour will be
Friday mornings at 10:30am, April
10th—May 15th. Sign up in person,
by calling 778-9344, or emailing
[email protected].
contest winners read their work!
Speaking of the Poetry Contest (for
Preschoolers—8th Graders), all
poems need to be in to the library by
Friday, April 17th.
Family Story Time, Thursday nights
@ 6:30, will run through April 30th.
The last session is the Poetry
Contest Celebration, where the
community is invited to hear our
Although it is spring, it’s not to early
to be thinking about summer—and
that means the Summer Reading
Program! Sign up begins June 22nd
for our hero-themed programs Every
Hero Has A Story for the kids and
Unmasked! for the teens. This
program will run until August 28th.
Our Adult program,
Escape the Ordinary,
also begins June
22nd, and runs
through September
4th.
Spring Computer Classes
“Modern Classroom With Computers” by David Costillo Dominici
The Library
has more
computer
classes to
offer, but we
need your
input!
March 17th
5-8pm Gadgets Class @ THE
LIBRARY! Our Computer Instructor
will be here to answer/help with your
electronic device questions.
March 30th
2-5pm Gadgets Class @ THE
LIBRARY! Our Computer Instructor
will be here to answer/help with your
electronic device questions.
April 20th
((Meeting Room of Town Hall)
10am-1pm What computer class
would you like us to offer? Choose
Page 2
from the list on the right & let us
know!
2-5pm Gadgets Class @ THE
LIBRARY! Our Computer Instructor
will be here to answer/help with your
electronic device questions.
April 27th
(Meeting Room of Town Hall)
10am-1pm What computer class
would you like us to offer? Choose
from the list on the right & let us
know!
2-5pm Gadgets Class @ THE
LIBRARY! Our Computer Instructor
will be here to answer/help with your
electronic device questions.
Sign up for computer classes in
person at the library, by phone at
778-9344 or by email at
[email protected].
COMPUTER CLASSES
AVAILABLE:
Computer Basic
Email Start to Finish
Excel Basic
Excel Intermediate
Facebook Combo
Flash Drives/File Management
Gaga for Google!
Internet Basic (Open Up Your World)
Internet Resources: Safety, Security,
Fun!
Introduction to LinkedIn Job
Networking Web Site
Introduction to Twitter: Instant
Information Sharing
Jobz! Skills for Job Seekers
Mail Merge
Power Point: Create Professional
Presentations
Publisher: Create Print Documents
Quickly and Easily
Windows 8 and IE 10
Word Basic
Word Intermediate - Templates and
Flyers
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Cornell Cooperative Extension www.CCENiagaraCounty.org
Cooperative Extension derives its
name from a combination of federal,
state and county funds structured to
ensure that all people have access to
their state university. The Land
Grant Act of 1862 provided funds for
each state to establish one college
with a heavy emphasis on the
agriculture of the time, but also
providing for future pursuits and
professions. The land grant mission
focuses on three areas: teaching,
research and extension.
All 50 states and the district of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
and Guam, have at least one land
grant university with this three-part
mission. Cornell University was
chartered and designated as New
York State’s land grant institution in
1865.
In 1914 The Smith Lever Act
established the national cooperative
extension system. It funded county
agents and college specialists in
work with farmers through
cooperation of agricultural colleges
and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. For the next three
decades, Cornell University became
the recognized leader in the nation
for the excellence and effectiveness
of its work.
Cornell Cooperative Extension has
“been in the education/information
business for nearly a century. We are
your front door to Cornell University,
which can provide the research,
information and expertise to help you
solve problems and improve your
quality of life. The entire state is our
campus, and all New York State
A gateway to knowledge for
100 years!
residents are our
You can also access their
students. Our
newsletter, Your Extensionnumerous county
Niagara County from their
offices put Cooperative
website (under About CCE).
Extension resources
within easy reach of all
Creating Healthy Places To
of New York’s 57
Live, Work and Play is on of
counties. Our
CCE offers a variety of
the programs offered by
assistance, including the
publications are not
CCE Niagara County. This
diagnosis of plant problems,
insect, disease and plant
textbooks, but booklets, identification,
program works to prevent
soil testing for
gardens, lawns, landscapes,
information sheets, and
obesity and type 2 diabetes
and more!
brochures intended for
by making it easier to be
everyday use and application,
physically active and increase conwritten by experts and based on the
sumption of healthy foods. To do
latest findings. We offer information
this, specific initiatives are being imyou can trust.”
plemented:
On the CCE website you can find
information on the following
programs:

Agriculture

Natural Resources &
Environment

Horticulture & Gardening

Food, Nutrition & Health

4-H/Youth Development

Energy & Money Management

Community & Economic
Development

Creating Healthy Places To Live,
Work & Play

Local Foods & Food Systems
This spring, if you’re looking for
gardening help, try
gardening.cornell.edu. Bugs
pestering you? Check out
blogs.cornell.edu/horticulture/
pests/ or nysipm.cornell.edu/
factsheets/. You can also find
information on Niagara Farm
Markets, what produce is in season
and seasonal recipes as well as
Niagara County Fair information.

Healthy Kids, Healthy NY

Community Gardens

Plentiful Partnership of Niagara

Walking Trails and Streetscaping
Improvements
Check out their website at CCENiagaraCounty.org (click on the Programs
tab, and then Creating Healthy
Places To Live, Work and Play) for
more information
The annual Plentiful Partnership of
Niagara Workshop will be March 26th
@ 5:30pm. Learn about gleaning,
options for selling and donating
produce, meet your food bank reps,
and share success & best practices.
RSVP Jennifer Grier at 433-8839 ext.
222 or email [email protected].
CCE of Niagara County is located on
Lake Avenue (Rt. 78) at the Niagara
County Fairgrounds.
4487 Lake Avenue
Lockport, NY 14094
Phone: (716) 433-8839
Email: [email protected]
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Newfane Public Library
Member of the NIOGA Library System,
serving Niagara, Orleans & Genesee counties!
New & Upcoming DVDs
@ The Library
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Annie
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dolphin Tale 2
Downton Abbey: Season 5
Fury
Gone Girl
The Good Lie
The Grace Kelly Collection
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hundred Foot Journey
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
If I Stay
Into the Woods
The Judge
Kill the Messenger
Lucy
The Maze Runner
Night At the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Rosewater
Wild
Phone: 716-778-9344
Fax: 716-778-9344
E-mail: [email protected]
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Tuesday & Thursday: 12pm—8pm
Saturday: 11am—2pm
@
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Newfane, New York 14108
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CLOSING EARLY Friday @ 2pm
CLOSED
Apr 3—4
Memorial Day Weekend
Saturday—Monday
May 23—25
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Jul 4—Aug 29
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Saturday—Monday
Sep 5—7
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New Books Arriving This Spring:
The following titles are coming out in March:
Bradford, Barbara Taylor—The Cavendon Women
Coben, Harlan—The Stranger
Cook, Robin—Host
Cussler, Clive—The Assassin
Gruen, Sara—At the Water’s Edge
Jance, J.A.—Cold Betrayal
Macomber, Debbie—Last One Home
Mitchell, Judith Claire—A Reunion of Ghosts
Patterson, James—NYPD Red 3
Genova, Lisa—Inside the O’Briens
Johansen, Iris—Your Next Breath
Kingsbury, Karen—Chasing Sunsets
McCreight, Kimberly—Where They Found Her
Packer, Ann—The Children’s Crusade
Patterson, James—Miracle At Augusta
Roberts, Nora—The Liar
Sandford, John—Gathering Prey
Scottoline, Lisa—Every Fifteen Minutes
Woods, Stuart—Hot Pursuit
The following titles are coming out in April:
Baldacci, David—Memory Man
Berg, Elizabeth—The Dream Lover
Cocks, Heather—The Royal We
Duffy, Brendan—House of Echoes
Clark, Mary Higgins—The Melody Lingers On
The following titles are coming out in May:
Brown, Rita Mae—Tail Gait
Cussler, Clive—Piranha
Deaver, Jeffery—Solitude Creek
Lescroart, John—The Fall
Patterson, James—14th Deadly Sin