We are planning our annual dinner and silent auction which will be held at the Lake St Catherine Country Club. We are seeking donations of products or services that can be auctioned to raise funds for general operating costs. All donations are tax deductible. Dinner tickets can be purchased from us, $40 per person or $75 per couple. You can bid by attending the dinner, or you can email or call us. Email bids will be accepted up to 12:00pm …
There will be a meeting of the Friends of the Pember Library at 2:00 PM. We will finalize plans for the annual summer sale.
“Summer Reading at New York Libraries” announces the “2012 Teen Video Challenge – NYS Viewer’s Choice Award” Have your opinion heard! VOTE for your favorite videos, created by teens to promote summer reading. The “2012 Teen Video Challenge – NYS Viewer’s Choice Award” will be awarded to the three videos receiving the most votes. Click here to view all videos and vote for your top three choices! Deadline for voting is midnight, August 15th, 2012. Winner will be announced in …
The Pember Book Club will be reading “The Dirty Life; on Farming, Food, and Love” by Kristin Kimball. From Publishers Weekly: Kimball chucked life as a Manhattan journalist to start a cooperative farm in upstate New York with a self-taught New Paltz farmer she had interviewed for a story and later married. The Harvard-educated author, in her 30s, and Mark, also college educated and resolved to “live outside of the river of consumption,” eventually found an arable 500-acre farm …