The Town of Ballston Community Library will be closed on Friday, July 4th and Saturday July 5th for Independence Day.  The library will re-open at 10 AM on Monday, July 7th.

This lovely little cow has appeared at the library.  She’s so cute we just had to take her picture.

Ballston Lake resident and book author John Blowers will be signing (and talking about) his new novel, Life on Tilt: Confessions of a Poker Dad, from 6:30-8 PM on Monday, June 16th at the library.

The knitwits will be meeting at Border’s in Clifton Park on Monday 5/19! Please join us there.  The June meeting will be back at the library on Monday, June 30th, at 7 PM.

Free program with retired engineer Ray Misiewicz on May 20th, 2008, at 7 PM in the library community room.

During the cold war nuclear submarines were used to conduct special operations to acquire intelligence information. We follow the exploits of the USS Halibut (SSN-587), USS Seawolf (SSN-575) and USS Parche (SSN-683) as they monitor activity in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Barents Sea during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Based on the stories in the recent book, “Blind Man’s Bluff”, we learn how the missions were planned and we’ll travel with these boats as they execute them. The special operations submarines enabled the United States to get inside the minds of the military leaders of our adversaries. To do that our submariners put themselves at great risk. This talk serves as a tribute to their sacrifices. 

Students from the BH-BL elementary schools (Charlton Heights, Pashley, and Stevens) and from O’Rourke Middle School have their artwork on display in the library for the month of April!  Masks, Penguins, collages, pastels, pencil drawings, Papier Mache animals, and more are in the library community room and in the display case.  There will be a reception in their honor from 1-3 PM in the library community room on Saturday April 26, 2008.

Our Town in Bloom volunteers will be at the library on Saturday, April 26th, at 10:00 AM to get the library ready for spring!  Many hands make light work and it counts as volunteer hours, too! Please bring a rake or other garden tool and work gloves.

Alan Wechsler will present a slide show of his Journey Through East Africa from 7-8:30 PM on Tuesday, April 22nd, in the library community room. This program is free and open to the public.

 Michael Buckley, author of the popular Fairy-Tale Detectives Series, will be speaking at the Town of Ballston Community at 7 PM on Wednesday, April 30th.  For more about his books, visit the Sisters Grimm website.  He’ll be doing a book signing after his talk.  Please pre-order his books at the library if you’d like to have one signed. We’ll have a limited number available at the library on April 30th for purchase then.

 If you missed Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s talk or if you heard her speak and would like to see the documentary about her life, we will be showing the one hour movie on the big screen in the library community room at 11 AM, 1 PM and 3 PM on Saturday, April 5, 2008.

For more information about Marion Blumenthal Lazan, the book Four Perfect Pebbles, or the Holocaust, please visit her website: Four Perfect Pebbles.