Discover your strengths and improve your work life and relationships. Dependable Strengths is based on the premise that all people have some form of excellence deep within them. This can be identified and brought to awareness, enabling the person to do their best work and experience their greatest satisfaction and effectiveness in life. Dependable Strengths is a process for identifying this unique excellence within each individual. In a planned sequence of experiences participants identify … [Read more...] about Dependable Strengths
The Community Library Lecture Room
Guitar Circle with Taul Paul
Local musician, storyteller, poet and river man Taul Paul will talk about different types of acoustic guitars and making music. Come to learn to play or extend your skills. Open to all interested in the history of guitars, Americana and folk, campfire tales and boat songs and local, home-grown music. Contact info: Taul Paul Guitar Lessons/Entertainment (619) 994-6866 dancingfingers @ live.com … [Read more...] about Guitar Circle with Taul Paul
Tech Classes with Paul: Android
Join our tech expert Paul for a class on how to use Android on your smartphone or tablet. … [Read more...] about Tech Classes with Paul: Android
Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp
Teresa Tamura will present from her new book which documents the Minidoka internment camp in Jerome County, Idaho, and its survivors, who were displaced from their homes in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. She also documents many artifacts that were made or found there. Her book comprises 180 black-and-white photographs supplemented by essays and interviews. Tamura is a third generation Japanese American photographer and photojournalist, born and raised in Nampa, Idaho. She received a … [Read more...] about Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp
Star Lab Planetarium
A Children's Library event, presented by Hemingway Engineering Technology Teacher, Scott Slonim. Spend an afternoon in the Star Lab, a portable planetarium. Have you ever looked at the stars and been amazed that ancient people made constellations from them? Have you ever wondered not only how to find the constellations but what the stories are behind them? Join Hemingway Elementary Engineering Technology teacher Scott Slonim as he takes you on a tour of the stars. You will see the Native … [Read more...] about Star Lab Planetarium
Elizabeth Kelly Stephenson Reading: The Trouble with Truth
The Trouble with Truth, Elizabeth Kelly Stephenson's memoir, recounts a tale of feeling trapped in a continuous cycle of destructive relationships. Beth was born in Santa Monica, California, but escaped the smog of Southern California at age twenty-eight to marry her ski instructor after a whirlwind courtship. The marriage didn't last, but the blue skies of Idaho's Wood River Valley had a hold on her. She worked there for fifteen years as Executive Director of the Crisis Hotline, a twenty-four … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Kelly Stephenson Reading: The Trouble with Truth
