Pet Food Drive

The Teen Advisory Board is sponsoring a Pet Food Drive for the Hamilton County Humane Society. We have a box in the front foyer, including a HCHS wish list.

Don't forget the pets this holiday season, especially those the HCHS, a no-kill shelter.

Library Closures This Week

In observance of Thanksgiving, the library will close at 2 pm on Wednesday the 23rd, and will remain closed until 10 am on Friday the 25th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Christmas Cards with Annette Harling

Annette Harling leads a class on Christmas card making. The class is $15, and all materials are provided.

Each participant will make 10 cards - there are 5 styles, and will make 2 of each.

Space is limited, so registration at www.hnpl.lib.in.us is required.

Author Suzanne Purewal Here Tonight!

Local author and poet Suzanne Purewal will be tonight here to sign copies of her latest book of poetry, From 14 to 41.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

For information about Suzanne, please visit www.suzannepurewal.com.

November!

Curbing Your Spending
Tuesday, November 1 - 6.30 pm
Indiana Room
The Purdue Extension Service of Hamilton County offers a financial wellness program series. Topics includes: budgeting, tracking spending, and setting financial goals. Registration is required. This class is $4, and will be presented by Bernadette Huber.

Cider & Canvas
Thursday, November 3 - 6.30 pm
Meeting Rooms A & B
Eschewing the wine, Deanna Leonard leads a class on canvas painting - plus cider! We will complete a canvas, which will be an excellent holiday gift! The class is $10, and all materials are provided.

October Catch-Up

The end of this month is incredibly busy, and we have lots of programs on offer.

Monday, October 24 - 6.30 pm
Evening Reading Group
Indiana Room
We will be discussing The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

Tuesday, October 25 - 6.30 pm
Stretching Your Food Dollar
Meeting Rooms A & B
The Purdue Extension Service of Hamilton County will offer a financial wellness program series. Topics will include: Quick, nutritious, budget friendly meal ideas, saving at the grocery ,Food Demonstration Cooking for the busy family on a budget, Budgeting, tracking spending, and setting financial goals.
Registration is required to ensure enough food samples are available. This class is $4, and will be presented by Susan Peterson.

Thursday, October 27 - 6.30 pm
Anzio 1944
Meeting Rooms A & B
Local history buff Randy Shelden will be here to discuss WWII's Battle of Anzio. Registration is requested.

Friday, October 28 - 10 am
Author Jeanne Dams
Meeting Rooms A & B
Mystery writer Jeanne Dams will be here to discuss her latest books - A Dark and Stormy Night (Dorothy Martin series) and Murder in Burnt Orange (Hilda Johansson series.)

Food For Fines

Do you have library fines? This month, the library is partnering with a local food pantry serving the Jackson Township area. For every non-perishable food item a patron may bring, $1 will be deleted in late or processing fees (does not apply to replacement fee for lost and damaged items).

Flu Shot Clinic

Thursday, October 6
5 - 7 pm
Meeting Rooms A & B

CVS Pharmacy will be here to administer flu shots.
Each shot is $29.99
Medicare patients receive free shots. Medicaid patients have a $3 co-pay.

HNPL Partners & Friends Quilt Raffle

The Partners & Friends of HNPL are raffling off a quilt for the holidays.

Tickets are $1/each, or $5/6 tickets.

The drawing will take place on December 1, and the quilt will be presented to the winner during Christmas @ the Library on December 8.

The quilt was handmade by the quilting group at the Atlanta branch.

Good luck!

The Poison River Boys

Thursday, September 29
6.30 pm
Meeting Rooms A & B

Join us for another evening with the Poison River Boys - Roger Bedwell on guitar, Bill Haines on bass, Bruce Neckar on mandolin, and Jon Coleman on banjo.
They play old-time bluegrass and folk music.

Scrapbooking with Annette Harling

Thursday, September 22 - 6 pm
Meeting Rooms A & B

Annette Harling will be at Hamilton North Public Library for a class on Paper Bag Scrapbooks.

The class is $15, and all materials are provided. Please pay the instructor at the time of class.

Registration is requested.

Forever Young Book Group

Thursday, October 13
6 pm - Indiana Room

This is a call out meeting for adults who enjoy reading young adult books. We'll be starting a book club in early 2012, and we'd like to gauge interest.

Registration is preferred.

HHMS Transportation to HNPL

Did you know that HNPL is offering programs on early-release Wednesdays? Middle-schoolers may ride bus 9 to the library, and must bring a note to obtain the proper bus pass.

Tonight - Artist Reception for Billie C. Wiete

Tuesday, September 13 - 6 pm to 7.30 pm
East Wing

Please join us for a reception in honor of this month's artist, photographer Billie C. Wiete. Refreshments will be served.

Free Self-Defense Classes for Women!

Hamilton North Public Library is offering a two-part Self-Defense Classes for Women. The first workshop is Thursday, September 8, and the second on Thursday the 15th. Both classes start at 6 pm.

Edie Keesee of the Noblesville Police Department will discuss the three different types of rapists, myths about rape, and safety tips. The second class will demonstrate hands-on self defense techniques. Both classes will be intertwined with real life stories of cases and examples of how to stay safer.

This is a free class, but registration is required. Please visit www.hnpl.lib.in.us to register, or call the library at 317-984-5623.

Authors Crandall, Dunlap & Perona To Speak at HNPL

Hamilton North Public Library is excited to offer an evening with local authors Susan Crandall, Phil Dunlap, and Tony Perona. All three will be at HNPL at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, August 30.

“Phil, Susan and I all come at mysteries from different angles because we write in different genres, but at the heart of each of our books is a mystery. Phil’s just happen to take place in the Old West and are categorized as Westerns. Susan’s are romance or romantic suspense, so those elements become important to the mystery. Mine are what you might think of as traditional mysteries, although there’s a supernatural element at work in my books. We look forward to talking about how we plot our mysteries and what differences and similarities there are in our novels despite (or because of) the genres we write in,” said Perona.

Crandall is an award-winning women’s fiction and suspense author. Her first solo work, Back Roads, won a RITA for Best New Work. Her most recent release is Sleep No More.

Dunlap, a long-time journalist , freelance author, and writer, won an EPIC award in 2009 for his novel Saving Mattie. His latest release, Cotton’s War, is the first in a new series.

In 2002, Perona became a published author with the release of Second Advent, the first in the Nick Bertetto series. His work has also appeared in Racing Can Be Murder, a collection of short stories about the Indianapolis 500.

This is a free program, but registration is requested.

Breakthrough Parenting Workshop on August 25

Do you feel frustrated, angry, unappreciated, tired or embarrassed about your child’s behavior? Do you need new parenting strategies or ideas? This class is for parents, grandparents, caregivers and anyone working with children.

Join Hamilton North Public for a powerful workshop: Breakthrough Parenting. The class, which meets at 6 pm on Thursday, August 25, focuses on reducing power struggles, communicating effectively so your children will listen, self-control vs. parental control, positive discipline and resolving conflict. Parents report improved relationships after this workshop.

Kristen Boice of Pathways to Healing Counseling & Education leads this workshop.

Register early and save! $10 for registrations received through August 24; $15 day of event. To register, please call 317-984-5623 or visit www.hnpl.lib.in.us

Federal Contracting & Financing Opportunities for Small Business

Tuesday, August 16 - 6.30 pm
Meeting Rooms A & B

Find out about SBA's guaranty loan programs, and how to finance the growth or start-up of your business. Attendees will learn the financing options available. Find out how to register your business to sell to the federal government, and where to find contracting opportunities. Are you a Veteran? Interested in contracting opportunities for Women Owned Businesses? Need help with your business plan? A SCORE counselor will be available to tell you abour their free services and workshops.

Presented by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Registration is required.

The Burma Campaign

Wednesday, August 10 - 6.30 pm Meeting Rooms A & B
Local history buff Randy Shelden will be here to discuss WWII's Burma Campaign. Registration is requested.

Friends Photo Contest

Thank you to everyone who submitted photos for the HNPL Partners & Friends Photography Contest. The photos will be on display starting Saturday, August 6. Stop in to see the winners!

Also, a big thank you to the judges Christian F. LeSesne and Rick Ramsey!