Month: March 2016

Two Wednesdays each month,  6-8PM at the Pember Library, 33 West Main, Granville: Pat Oathout will teach quilling. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. For information, call 518-642-2525.

April 6, 6PM

Decisions about how we would like to live and be cared for, particularly at the end of life, are some of the most personal, and in certain instances, the most difficult decisions we may ever have to make. By completing Advance Directives each of us has the unique opportunity not only to identify our wishes for care that we may or may not want to receive, but also to designate an individual to speak for us in the event we are unable to speak for ourselves.
Topics to be addressed will include:
o The Advance Care Planning Process
o Tips on having conversations before the crisis
o Advance Directive forms: Health Care Proxy, Living Will and the MOLST.
Presenters:
Sharon Shannon Palliative Care NP – Hudson Headwaters Healthcare Network
Pat Spreitzer RN Community Nurse Liaison – The Community Hospice

The Pember Book Club will be reading “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” by Daniyal Mueenuddin April 12 1:oo PM.

From GoodReads:

In the spirit of Joyce’s Dubliners and Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches, Daniyal Mueenuddin’s collection of linked stories illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in the countryside outside of Lahore, Pakistan. An aging feudal landlord’s household staff, the villagers who depend on his favor, and a network of relations near and far who have sought their fortune in the cities confront the advantages and constraints of station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. Mueenuddin bares – at times humorously, at times tragically – the complexities of Pakistani class and culture and presents a vivid picture of a time and a place, of the old powers and the new, as the Pakistani feudal order is undermined and transformed.

The Pember Library and Museum invites members of the community to participate in its March 4th First Friday, which will be a collaborative show of creative work in various media from the hands of patrons. There is open call for the public to participate with one or several works of art or crafted items.

To date, twelve exhibitors are signed on to showcase everything from jewelry to paw prints: The Pember Quillers, Pember “A Good Yarn” Crafters, crocheted items by Ardyce Bresett, jewelry & antler art by Bernie Hoffman, painting on glass by Donna Henry, hand-painted items by Kristin Gibson, book art by Friends of the Pember, student art of Jennifer Dashef’s class, “Specimen” series graphic works by Christopher Smith, handbags by Gigi Zeitler, a historic home replica by Netty Lacroix and Creative Paw Prints by Lucy, the Pember cat. There is still time to submit work of your own! We will be utilizing both the library and museum for exhibition.