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📚 Reading Buddies 📚
Do you have children in grades 1-3? Would you like them to read more? Join our weekly Reading Buddies program in June! Each child will be paired with a volunteer for fun and interactive read aloud sessions. Together they will share the joys of reading in a friendly, encouraging, and enthusiastic environment. Mondays in June at 5:15 pm. Space is limited so register today!
🍽 Asian Heritage Month: Virtual Cooking Show 🍽
Please join us for a virtual cooking show with local chef Joe Thottungal from popular restaurants Thali and Coconut Lagoon on Tuesday, May 30 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Watch as he demonstrates three dishes: Asparagus Thoran, Chicken Kadai, Pomegranate and mint Raita from his new cookbook "My Thali". Register here to reserve your spot!
🏅How to be a Climate Optimist by Chris Turner wins the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize! 🏅
Chris Turner is the 2023 winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing! How to be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World is a "self-help guide for the planet and a masterclass in brisk, vivid storytelling" says the Jury for the Canadian nonfiction prize. Borrow it from OPL, as well as all 2023 nominees and past winners. All great nonfiction reading!
👩🍳 Cook and Tell! 👨🍳
Calling all foodies! Love trying new recipes? Join our Barrhaven "Cook and Tell" Cookbook Club on select Thursdays at 3:00 pm! Try a recipe from each month’s cookbook selection and tell us what you think!
May 25: 15 Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver
June 22: Project Fire by Steven Raichlen
🏥 South Nepean Satellite Community Health Centre: Information on Services & Programs 🏥
Join us on Thursday, May 25 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm on the second floor of the branch to learn more about programs and services for children, youth, families and older adults in the Nepean area.
🎍 Spring Plant Swap 🎍
Did you start too many seedlings? Have some extra perennial or houseplants? Bring them to the Ruth E. Dickinson Branch Spring Plant Swap and take some other plants home! We'll be set up outside of the branch near the main entrance from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Saturday, May 27. Please don't forget to clearly label your plants. Let the gardening season begin!