Friends presents Crime Prevention seminar
Presented by the Friends of Freedom Public Library on Thursday, November 12, at 1 p.m., in the library’s meeting room, the Metro Crime Prevention of Florida seminar provides information that may save your life.
With the holidays fast approaching and today’s economy providing an excuse for many to steal, or worse, this seminar may help you avoid becoming a victim. Learn how you should react to a purse snatching, how a cell phone can save your life, how a burglar learns the so-called secret password for your home security system.
Can you be arrested for speeding? Do you know when a woman is most vulnerable and what to do about it? Most of us don’t, so come for this most informative session. It’s free and open to the public.
Heather’s Hi-Lites
November is here and the time has come to register for the use of the Freedom Public Library meeting room in 2010.
Registration forms are now available online at our library website, www.library.marioncountyfl.org. From the Programs and Services tab, select Meeting Room Policy. You will be able to read the Meeting Room Policy and Patron Code of Conduct, and select the application format of your choice. You can also apply by fax to 436-2582, or hand deliver your registration form to the library. Please call our Reference Desk if you have questions or need more information.
When the meeting room is not in use by the library or a library-related organization, it is available to non-profit organizations for the purpose of informational meetings that are free and open to the public. We support the use of our meeting space especially to provide educational and recreational opportunities for our community.
Authors on Exhibit
Left to right: Margery Mitchell, Colleen Gould, Roseann Galeazzo, Mary Ann Sciavillo-Lopez, Tricia Pimental, Carol Jones, writers group leader. Not shown are Delight Kilyan and Diane Podkomorski.
The Freedom Writers Group of the Florida Writers Assn. (FWA) welcomed a steady stream of visitors to their event on Tuesday, October 27. Five of the eleven exhibiting authors offered their books as door prizes and winners were drawn at the end of the day.
Two award winners in the FWA’s Royal Palm Literary Award contest showed their work and their trophies: Tricia Pimental, First Place winner in the Autobiography Unpublished category for “Rabbit Trail: How a Former Playboy Bunny Found Her Way,” and Sylvia Fiorello, Second Place winner in the Young Adult Published category for “My Best Friend Ever.”
Two members’ short stories appeared in the FWA’s first ever collection, “From Our Family to Yours”: MaryAnn Sciavillo-Lopez’s “Scents of Heaven,” and two by Carol Jones (that’s me!), “Picture of Old Zeb” which was featured in the anthology’s top ten, and “Specter of Sam.”
From the Freedom Writers Group, “Thank You to the Friends of Freedom Public Library for inviting us to share in their Art in the Library experience.”
ShutterBugs and Ocala Decorative Artists
Daisy Pena Rowell, Ray Christian, John Ware, Gary Uhley of The ShutterBugs, Oct. 20.
On Tuesday, October 20, the ShutterBugs Photography Club shared the room with the Ocala Decorative Artists and presented an outstanding array of creativity.
The ShutterBugs display monthly at the library. You’ll find their pictures toward the back and just outside the Computer Lab. They also show in many places about town, often including On Top of the World’s Master the Possibilities building.
Bea Petersen of Ocala Decorative Artists, Oct. 20Ocala Decorative Artists work with many different media, from plates to purses and all surfaces in between. They paint Memory Boxes for various hospitals for the parents of premature babies, and Treasure Boxes for kids in the Shriner’s Hospital in Tampa.
The Art Club of Oak Run and Freedom Quilters
The many fascinating paintings and watercolors shown regularly in the library are all done by ACOR, or the Art Club of Oak Run. On October 12, their colorful creations filled the meeting room.
Freedom Quilters showed what their nimble fingers could do the first Tuesday, October 6. Jeannine Sirkoch, group president, displayed three of her quilts and demonstrated the intricacies of Brazilian embroidery. Victoria Jandreau revealed the trick to detachable padded coasters.
Thanks again from all the groups to the Friends of Freedom Public Library for the opportunity to participate in their Art in the Library event.
Library Hours
Freedom Public Library is open six days a week, Monday through Saturday, closed on Sunday. Open times are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. For questions, or to arrange an appropriate time for your group, call Heather Ogilvie, 438-2580.
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