Hoke Library to Hold Fire and Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults Feb. 8

WHO:      Martin County Library System

WHAT:   Remembering When™: A Fire and Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults

Fact:  At age 65, older adults are twice as likely to be killed or injured by fires or falls compared to the population at large.

Fact: Thirty percent of people age 65 and older are involved in falls each year, the leading cause of death from unintentional injury in the home.

Fact: In the U.S. and Canada, adults age 65 and older make up about 12 percent of the population – and their numbers are increasing.

               Remembering When™ is centered around 16 key safety messages – eight fire prevention and eight fall prevention  – developed by experts from national and local safety organizations as well as through focus group testing in high-fire-risk states. The program was designed to be implemented by a coalition comprising the local fire department, service clubs, social and religious organizations, retirement communities, and others. Coalition members can decide how to best approach the local senior population: through group presentations, during home visits, and/or as part of a smoke alarm installation and fall intervention program.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 8, 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Hoke Library, Community Room, 1150 NW Jack Williams Way, Jensen Beach

HOW:     Free and open to the public.  No reservations required.

Remembering When™: A Fire and Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults, was developed by NFPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help older adults live safely at home for as long as possible.

For more information or to learn about the Martin County Library System pick up a Library Connection at any Martin County library, call (772) 221-1403, or visit the library website at http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

CONTACT: MCLS PUBLIC RELATIONS (772) 221-1403

WHO:             The Friends of the Hoke Library in Jensen Beach, Inc., sponsor, in support of Martin County libraries

WHAT:          Xtreme Couponing with Dee Dee

Maximize your coupon skills!  Come join couponing expert Dee Dee Lovejoy February 4 and February 11 at the Hoke Library in Jensen Beach to learn basic coupon strategies and local store coupon policies.

Pre-registration is required for this free, two-part program.

Dee Dee Lovejoy has been Super Couponing since the fall of 2009 and that has evolved into teaching others how to save money and use coupons in an Xtreme way.  Her goal is teaching how to save your family lots of money and coupon in an effective, correct and ethical way.

Dee Dee’s family currently spends an average of $47 a week for two adults, a three-year-old and two indoor cats.  In 2011 she saved her family 83% through extreme couponing.

Visit her website at http://www.xtremecouponingwithdeedee.com.

WHEN:          Saturday, February 4 and February 11, 10:30 a.m.  

 WHERE:       Hoke Library, Community Room, 1150 NW Jack Williams Way, Jensen Beach

 HOW:             Free.  Pre-registration required.  Call (772) 221-1403 to register.

For more information or to learn about the Martin County Library System pick up a Library Connection at any Martin County library, call (772) 221-1403, or visit the library website at http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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DATE:  JANUARY 26, 2012

CONTACT:  PUBLIC RELATIONS 772/221-1403

Cummings Library to hold free exercise seminar Feb. 4

WHO:             Martin County Library System

WHAT:            How to Exercise Correctly… Because Exercise Is Medicine  

                              Presented by Richard T. Shappell, Ph.D.

Martin County Library System will sponsor a free exercise seminar titled “How to Exercise Correctly… Because Exercise Is Medicine,” February 4 at the Cummings Library in Palm City.

Conducted by Dr. Dick Shappell, Professor Emeritus of Exercise Science at Oxford College of Emory University, the seminar is free.  Pre-registration is requested.  

Dr. Shappell will teach why exercise is medicine when done correctly, how to exercise correctly, and the healthy way to lose weight, as well as give diet and nutrition tips and exercises for the elderly.  Dr. Shappell recommends attendees bring paper and a pencil.  Physicians and health care providers are encouraged to join the general public in this two-hour seminar.

Richard T. Shappell, Ph.D., taught at Emory University for thirty-two years.  He has conducted over two hundred seminars for the public as well as seminars for physicians.

WHEN:           Saturday, February 4, 10:00 a.m. to noon

WHERE:        Cummings Library, Donahue Room, 2551 SW Matheson Avenue, Palm City 34990

HOW:             Free.  Pre-registration requested.  Please call (772) 221-1403 to register.

For details or to learn more about other Chautauqua South programs or the Martin County Library System call (772) 221-1403, pick up a Library Connection or Chautauqua South brochure at any branch library or visit the library website, http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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DATE:  JANUARY 24, 2012                                                                                                                            

CONTACT:  MCLS PUBLIC RELATIONS (772) 221-1403

WHO:                    Martin County Library System in cooperation with the Treasure Coast Classical Guitar Society

WHAT:                 Classical Guitar Concert Series – Concert Four:  José Luis Puerta

Martin County Library System continues its partnership with the Treasure Coast Classical Guitar Society in presenting classical guitar concerts at several of its libraries with the fourth concert in the five-part series, featuring José Luis Puerta, 2:00 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Blake Library in Stuart. Free tickets are required and available for pickup at the Blake Library beginning Jan. 30. No telephone reservations will be accepted.

Included in the hour-long program, with intermission, will be pieces by J.S. Bach, Kaspar Mertz, Joaquin Rodrigo, Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, Joaquin Turina, Sergio Assad and Mauro Giuliani.

José Luis Puerta began his guitar studies in Escuela Libre de Música de San Juan, Puerto Rico, later studying in the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico.  He graduated cum laude in June of 2006 and was awarded the Guitar Department medal for the most outstanding guitar student of the year.  José  Luis studied for his Master’s degree at the University of Arizona with Professor Thomas Patterson and currently teaches guitar in the Tucson area.  In 2010 he was a finalist at the Concurso Nacional de Guitarra in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.  He has performed in Canada, Spain, United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico.  Currently he is pursuing his Doctor’s degree at the University of Arizona while keeping an active performing and teaching career.

WHEN:                 Saturday, Feb. 4, 2:00 p.m.

 WHERE:              Blake Library, John F. Armstrong Wing, 2351 SE Monterey Road, Stuart 34996 

HOW:                    Free tickets required (limit of TWO per person, please).  Available for pickup only at the Blake Library beginning Jan. 30.  For details or to learn more about other Chautauqua South programs or the Martin County Library System call (772) 221-1403, pick up a Library Connection or Chautauqua South brochure at any Martin County library or visit the library website, http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

The Treasure Coast Classical Guitar Society was formed in November 2010 as “A community for classical guitar enthusiasts to promote appreciation of the classical guitar, provide opportunities for guitarists of all levels to meet and play together, and to sponsor professional concerts.” By partnering with the Martin County Library System, the guitar society hopes to spread their love of the classical guitar to the greatest number of people possible on the Treasure Coast. Visit the Treasure Coast Classical Guitar Society website at http://www.tccgs.org.

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DATE:  JANUARY 24, 2012                                                                                                            

CONTACT:  PUBLIC RELATIONS 772/221-1403

Atlantic Classical Orchestra to present chamber music series

Jan. 28, Feb. 18 and March 24 at Blake Library

WHO:                    The Friends of the Blake Library in Stuart, Inc., in support of Martin County libraries

WHAT:                 Chautauqua South: Atlantic Classical Orchestra – Chamber Music Series

Atlantic Classical Orchestra, under the direction of Stewart Robertson, will present a series of three chamber music programs Saturday, January 28, February 18 and March 24 at 11:00 a.m. in the John F. Armstrong Wing of the Blake Library in Stuart.   Each program runs approximately one and a quarter hours, with no intermission, and is free and open to the public.  No tickets or reservations are required. A schedule follows.

Chamber I – Saturday, January 28, 11:00 a.m.

Violinist Maryna Yermolenko, cellist Ian Maksin and pianist Catherine Lan perform Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor and the Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor by Shostakovich.
Chamber II – Saturday, February 18, 11:00 a.m.

Pianist Peter Pertis joins narrator, John Felix in a performance of Enoch Arden (A Melodrama) by Strauss.
Chamber III – Saturday, March 24, 11:00 a.m.

The Miami Beach String Quartet (Aleksandr Zhuk, violin; Dina Kostic, violin; Chauncey Patterson, viola;
Ian Maksin, cello) with ACO pianist Tao Lin perform piano quintets by Beach and Schumann.
WHEN:                 Saturday, January 28, February 18 and March 24, 11:00 a.m.

WHERE:              Blake Library, John F. Armstrong Wing, 2351 SE Monterey Rd., Stuart

HOW:                    Free and open to the public.  No tickets or reservations required. 

For more information or to learn more about the Martin County Library System or other Chautauqua South programs, call (772) 221-1403, pick up a Library Connection or Chautauqua South schedule at any branch library, or visit the library website, http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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DATE:  JANUARY 20, 2012

CONTACT:  PUBLIC RELATIONS (772) 221-1403

WHO:              The Friends of the Blake Library in Stuart, Inc, sponsor, in support of the Martin County Library System

WHAT:             Chautauqua South:  W.E.B. Du Bois: Battle of Ideas

                         Presented by Charles Everett Pace

Fulltime national Chautauqua presenter Charles Everett Pace will perform in character as scholar, activist, artist and overall American visionary W.E.B. Du Bois in his one-man play, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Battle of Ideas,” February 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the Blake Library in Stuart.  The event is free and open to the public.

Du Bois built an interracial leadership coalition that mobilized the black public, transcended the obstacle of white supremacy, and advanced the principles of democracy in America.

Besides Du Bois, Charles Pace does presentations on Frederick Douglass, York, Langston Hughes and Malcolm X and recently developed a new show on photojournalist, writer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Pace has worked as a Student Development Specialist & Program Advisor at University of Texas at Austin (B.A., biology) and has taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Purdue University (M.A., American studies) and Centre College of Kentucky.  He and fellow Chautauquan George Frein gave the keynote address at the final Presidential debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.

WHEN:            Thursday, February 2, 6:30 p.m.

WHERE:          Blake Library, John F. Armstrong Wing, 2351 SE Monterey Road, Stuart 34996

HOW:              Free and open to the public.  No tickets or reservations required.

For details or to learn more about other Chautauqua South programs or the Martin County Library

System call (772) 221-1403, pick up a Library Connection or Chautauqua South brochure at any

branch library or visit the library website, http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

CONTACT: MCLS PUBLIC RELATIONS (772) 221-1403

Learn about glass beads, make a pair of earrings

 at Hobe Sound Public Library

WHO:             The Friends of the Hobe Sound Library, Inc.

WHAT:           Jewelry Demonstration

Learn how glass beads are made and how earrings, bracelets and necklaces are designed and made from these beads and accents.

Participants will see an earring-making demonstration and make a pair of earrings to take home.

WHEN:           Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m.  

WHERE:        Hobe Sound Public Library, 10595 SE Federal Highway, Hobe Sound

HOW:             Free and open to the public.  No pre-registration required.   

For more information or to learn about the Martin County Library System pick up a Library Connection at any Martin County library, call (772) 221-1403, or visit the library website at http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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DATE:  JANUARY 12, 2012

CONTACT:  PUBLIC RELATIONS (772) 221-1403

WHO:              The Friends of the Blake Library, Inc, sponsor, in support of the Martin County libraries

WHAT:            FINDING HUMOR IN THE NEWS

                          Presented by Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino

Frank Cerabino will discuss how the daily newspaper can be a treasury of humor, and how writing a daily newspaper column can be a form of therapy. He will read from some of his work and talk about the creative process of his work.

Cerabino grew up on Long Island, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., in 1977, and began his career in journalism after serving five years as a Naval officer aboard an aircraft carrier. After leaving the Navy, Cerabino earned a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., and worked for a wire service in Chicago.  He moved to Florida in 1984 to take a reporting job with The Miami Herald. After five years at The Herald, he became a general assignment reporter with The Palm Beach Post, and eventually the newspaper’s local news columnist.

Cerabino’s column appears five days a week in The Post, and a paperback anthology of the best of his 20 years of columns was recently published under the title Writing Like a Taller Person.

Cerabino is also the author of two series of comic novels – Shady Palms and Pelican Park – and a play for teenagers, which has been staged in middle and high schools across the country.

WHEN:            Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m.

WHERE:          Blake Library, John F. Armstrong Wing, 2351 SE Monterey Road, Stuart 34996

HOW:              Free and open to the public.  No tickets or reservations required.

For details or to learn more about other Chautauqua South programs or the Martin County Library System call (772) 221-1403, pick up a Library Connection or Chautauqua South brochure at any branch library or visit the library website, http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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DATE:  JANUARY 11, 2012                                    

CONTACT:  PUBLIC RELATIONS (772) 221-1403     

WHO:             Friends of the Hoke Library in Jensen Beach, in support of the Martin County Library System

WHAT:           Women in Literature Part X 2012

Women in Literature Part X, a six-session book study group facilitated by Gail Johnson, will take place 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. the first and third Thursdays, January 19 through March 29 at the Hoke Library in Jensen Beach. 

Among the questions addressed during this series are:  What characterizes women characters?  How are they different from male characters?  Are gender differences cultural or biological?  What kinds of plots are associated with women, and how do they see their lives and possibilities?

A limited number of books are available at the Circulation desk of the library.  Signup is not required.

WHEN:           Alternate Thursdays, January 19 – March 29, 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Book discussion schedule:

Jan. 19 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Feb. 2 Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson

Feb. 16 Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

March 1 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

March 15 Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh

March 29 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford                                                                                            

WHERE:        Hoke Library, Community Room, 1150 NW Jack Williams Way, Jensen Beach

HOW:                         Free and open to the public. Pre-registration not required.

For more information or to learn about the Martin County Library System call (772) 221-1403, pick up a Library Connection at any branch library or visit the library website at http://www.library.martin.fl.us.

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DATE:  JANUARY 11, 2012

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Wondering what to read next? 

 Edie Donohue will tell you at Sampler Book Review!

WHO:                    Funded by the Friends of the Blake Library in Stuart, Inc., in support of the Martin County Library System

WHAT:             Sampler Book Review with Edie Donohue

Edie Donohue has chosen over a dozen must-read titles for this perennial crowd pleaser, and her favorites will soon become yours. 

Edith M. Donohue, Ph.D., is a Human Resources professional who teaches, writes and offers career guidance services to individuals and organizations.  She was selected as the Martin County Woman of Distinction in the Business Professional category in 1999.  She is the co-author of Life After Layoff: Six Proven Courses of Action.

Edie also will appear at Martin County Library System’s 18^th Annual BookMania! author/book festival 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21 at Jensen Beach High School, where she will interview journalist, PBS commentator and author Jim Lehrer at in the School’s Performing Arts Center. 

WHEN:                 Wednesday, January 18, 2:00 p.m.

WHERE:              Blake Library, John F. Armstrong Wing, 2351 SE Monterey Rd., Stuart

HOW:                    Free and open to the public.  No pre-registration required.

For more information or to learn more about the Martin County Library System or other Chautauqua South programs, call 772/221-1403, pick up a Library Connection, or visit the library website, www.library.martin.fl.us.

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