Session 2: November 2nd – December 7th

BOOK CLUBS
The Olds Municipal Library offers a wide variety of book clubs to choose from. Check out the books being read each month by the groups at our website http://oml.prl.ab.ca/clubs.html#read1. All that is required is that you read the book of the month before the club and come ready to discuss the book. All book clubs are held at the library with coffee and refreshments provided.

Fee: Free

Book Club 1
Wednesdays 7:00 – 9:00
September 29th, October 27th, November 24th, and December 29th

Book Club 2
Fridays 10:00 – 12:00
September 24th, October 29th, November 26th

Book Club 3 (Virtual Book Club offered through Video Conference)
Wednesdays 7:30 – 8:30
September 15th (location Bell E-Learning Center)
December 8th (location Olds Municipal Library)

GETTING STARTED WITH GENEALOGY
Tracing our roots and recording our history has been a tradition passed down to use for generations. This course offers the knowledge you need to get started with tracing your family history. Whether you’ve dabbled a little online yourself or are just getting started, this information session will show you some tools to move further into the past.

Fee: $10.00
Monday 1:00 – 3:00
December 6th

NOVEL IDEAS WRITING CLUB
Whether you are a seasoned writer or just getting started this is a great club for learning new writing techniques, attending workshops, sharing your ideas, and learning from each other. This group meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month with a workshop style session the first meeting of the month and a brainstorming and sharing session the last meeting of the month. With fees of less than $10.00 a month, there is a lot of knowledge and workshops to draw from. (Note to attend any of the sessions you must purchase the annual membership)

Fee: $70.00 (Annual) – prorated to month joined
Thursdays 6:00 – 8:00
September 9th – December 23rd (2nd and 4th Thursday of every month)

Workshops:
September 9th: Writing Short Stories and getting published
October 14th: Overcoming Writer’s Block
November 18th: Getting Started on your Novel or Next Novel
(Moved due to Remembrance Day)
December 9th: Journaling and the Writer’s Life

MINDFUL LIVING STUDY GROUP
Take a yearlong journey into mindful living for the body, spirit, and planet. This study group will make a commitment to one year of mindful living based on concepts from the book Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich N Hanh. Each month of this book study, participants will meet to discuss concepts they have read in a chapter of the books as well as listen to guest speakers on the monthly topic.

(The purchase of the book will be required for this study group. They can be purchased through the library at a discounted rate Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich N Hanh $20.00)

Fee: Free (book Required)
Fridays 3:00 – 5:00

September 17th What is Mindful Living?
October 15th Mindful Eating – Weight Control
November 19th Mindful Eating – Appreciating the Apple
December 17th Mindful Eating – You are More than What you Eat
January 21st Mindful Life – Living in the Present
February 18th Mindful Life – Your Body on the Go
March 18th Mindful Life – Rest and Relaxation
April 15th Mindful World – You and your Environment
May 20th Mindful World – The Ripple Effect
June 17th TBA
July 15th TBA
August 19th TBA

LAW SERIES
This series of courses is brought to you through Video Conference from the Public Legal Education Program from Lethbridge College. With a wide variety of topics to choose from, each course is designed to give anyone the ability to deal with legal situations with knowledge up front.

An Enduring Power of Attorney • A Personal Directive • A Will: A Legal Toolkit
Planning for disability or death is never pleasant. However, it is an important part of identifying what you want done when something like this happens to you and helping those around you carry out your wishes. An enduring power of attorney, a personal directive, and a will are basic to building your plan. With them you can set out respectively:
• Who will handle your financial affairs and how, if you become mentally incompetent, who will handle your medical and other personal life decisions and the kinds of choices they can make for you
• How you want your estate to be dealt with at your death. In this presentation you’ll learn about these basic legal tools and what’s involved in acquiring them.

Fee: $15.00
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30
September 29 (Located at the Bell E-Learning Centre)

Being An Executor - Legal Rights and Responsibilities
This presentation will provide an overview of the legal rights and responsibilities of an executor (also known as a personal representative) as that person: Gathers in the estate assets, pays the debts, distributes to beneficiaries, and generally administers the estate.

Fee: $15.00
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30
October 6th (Located at the Bell E-Learning Centre)

Law and Living Together
What are the legal rights and responsibilities of unmarried people living together as spouses and how do they differ from those of married people? What is a cohabitation agreement and how important is it for people in such relationships to have one? What is an adult interdependent partner and what is the significance of becoming one? This presentation provides an opportunity to look at questions like these. The topics for discussion include care and support of children, inheritance, and property.

Fee: $15.00
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30
October 13th (Located at the Bell E-Learning Centre)

Grandparents, Grandchildren and Law
Grandparents often play a significant role in the lives of their grandchildren and the emotional ties can be deep. If parents separate or divorce, it can become difficult for grandparents to maintain this relationship with their grandchildren. Other times, such situations can result in grandparents providing much or all of the care for their grandchildren. How does the legal system respond in these types of situations? This session looks at subjects like parenting of and contact with children (also referred to as custody and access), maintenance, and guardianship from the grandparent-grandchild perspective.

Fee: $15.00
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30
October 20th (Located at the Bell E-Learning Centre)

 

Separation and Divorce
In the course of exploring what can happen legally when a couple decides to separate or divorce, the speaker will discuss issues like:
• The process – what is the court process? – are there other ways, like mediation or collaborative law, to try and how do they work?
• Child maintenance, custody (parenting) and access (contact) – how the children will be looked after
• Spousal maintenance – the extent to which one separating or divorcing spouse will have to support the other
• Matrimonial property – how the property will be divided.

Fee: $15.00
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30
November 3rd (Located at the Olds Municipal Library)

Residential Tenancies
• Rent
• Security deposits
• Termination of tenancies, and
• Notice
These are some of the things that will be discussed in this look at legal rights and responsibilities of people renting places to live.

Fee: $15.00
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30
November 10th (Located at the Olds Municipal Library)

‘Small Claims Court’ and How It Works
This is an introduction to ‘Small Claims Court’ (now called Provincial Court - Civil). It will give you a chance to learn about:
• What kinds of cases the court hears
• The limit for claims
• How lawsuits in the court are started and defended
• Procedure before trial including processes like mediation
• Evidence and witnesses; and
• Conducting trials and what actually happens there.

Fee: $15.00
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30
November 17th (Located at the Olds Municipal Library)

 

BEAD A CRYSTAL NECKLACE
Nothing says sparkle like authentic Swarovksi crystals. This beautiful necklace is sure to win you compliments each time you wear it. Learn how to weave, how to start and end a thread, how to use jump rings and how to attach a clasp. There are several colours to choose from, and no experience is necessary. All supplies are included.

Fee: $40.00
Tuesday 6:00 – 8:00
September 14th

 

CHRISTMAS CARD MAKING
Nothing says I care more than something you’ve made from the heart. Just in time for Christmas participants get the opportunity to learn how to make their own very special Christmas Cards to send to loved ones. Many materials to choose from, (feel free to bring your own tools). All supplies are included.

Fee: $20.00
Tuesday 6:00 – 8:00
November 30th

JEWISH WOMEN PIONEERS ON THE CANADIAN PRARIES
an illustrated talk on the making of Prairie Kaddish
November 18, 2010
12:00 PM
Speaker: Isa Milman
Hosted By: The University of Lethbridge
Milman is a poet, artist, and occupational therapist from Victoria, B.C. She is a visual artist whose paintings and prints are found in private collections in Canada, the United States, Europe and Israel. For three days a week, she coordinates the epilepsy program at the Victoria Epilepsy & Parkinson’s Centre.
Her awards include the Poetry Prize, Canadian Jewish Book Awards (2005) and the Samuel and Rose Cohen Award in Poetry, Canadian Jewish Book Awards (2009).

REFORMATION OF CAPATALISM
Students’ Union Debate Series
December 2, 2010
7:00 PM
Hosted By: The University of Lethbridge
Two to four faculty members will debate the proposition: “Whereas the dismantling of the welfare state and the era of deregulation has largely led to the widening of the gap between rich and poor and the 2008 economic crisis, be it resolved that capitalism be reformed and restrained to mitigate its excesses and destructive effects on society.”

 

Library Closed
October 1st – October 31st
The Library will be closed to move into and prepare the new facility

Library Reopening
Monday, November 1st
Library will reopen to the public during regular business hours with regular service

Furniture and Equipment Sale
October 18th – October 22nd
4901 50th Ave. Olds, AB (at temporary facility)
Come see what deals you can find at our furniture and equipment sale. Items we are not taking to the new location will be available for sale.

Book Launch - In My Mother's Garden by Connie Kurtenbach

Time
September 9 at 10:00am - September 10 at 5:00pm
Location Olds Municipal Library (temp location)
More Info In My Mother's Garden is a mind symphony that holds all the treasures and traumas of a little girl. The nine-year-old narrator, Cally Steinbach, brings us into her mother’s garden. It is in mama’s garden that every sense is awakened: the aroma of cinnamon bread, the songs harmonized after supper, the tangy touch of a gooseberry on the tongue and the first cracking of ice in the spring. Prose, poetry, paintings and illustrations present the theme of prairie life in the 1940’s.

To find out more about Connie and her work pick up a flyer in the library or contact ckfb@telus.net , phone: 1-250-245-3365

Alberta Arts Day Author Celebration
September 17th
1:00 - 2:00pm
Free
Brian Brennan, a broadcaster and award-winning writer based in Calgary.
Brian is the author of six critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books about colourful personalities of Western Canada’s past. One of his titles, Scoundrels and Scallywags, topped the regional best-seller charts for more than eighteen months and was short-listed for the prestigious Grant MacEwan Author’s Award. A former staff writer with the Calgary Herald, Brian has written freelance articles and columns for magazines and newspapers across the United States and Canada, including the New York Times, Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. You can find out more about him at his website: http://members.shaw.ca/brianbrennan/index.html

New Facility Grand Opening
Friday, November 12th
Official Grand opening and ribbon cutting with events and giveaways during the day and the official ceremony running from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.

A Child’s Christmas (ages 3 - 10)
Drop your kids off for an afternoon of reading and activities while you get that Christmas shopping done. (Pre-registration is not required)

Fee: Free
Saturday 12:30 – 2:30
December 4th

 

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