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Where does your trash go once you throw it in the big black bin? What goes in the blue recycling bin? Jan Tracy, program coordinator for Pinellas County Solid Waste has all the answers. She’ll share them during Pinellas County Converts Waste to Energy, Saturday, October 15, at St. Petersburg Jan Tracy Main Library at 2 p.m. Pinellas County continues to be a superior environmental steward by supporting waste reduction and recycling efforts. The county has been recognized for having the highest recycling rate in the state of Florida, while St. Petersburg is also showing success in its residential recycling program. In September, 64% of city residents put their recycling carts out for collection at least once a month. The City of St. Petersburg began picking up curbside recyclables curbside in June 2015, making that program more than a year old. The items you place in your recycling bin are taken to Waste Connections of Florida, formerly Progressive Waste Solutions, 1190 20th
A Talk by Jan Tracy: CO N V ERT ING WAS T E T O EN ERGY Main Library Sat., Oct. 15, 2 p.m. St. North, where they are sorted and packed into bales of paper, plastic and metals, and sold to innovative companies that reuse these basic materials to produce new products.
This program has been successful in diverting tons of materials that previously would have been incinerated into new products. The items you place in your trash are
AT TH E M A I N L I B R A RY The St. Petersburg Main Library has the complete set of Peter Meinke’s publications because Friends of the Main Library bought them and presented them to the library. Peter Meinke was the first St. Pete poet laureate, then became Florida’s poet laureate, and still is!
burned in the three large incinerators at Pinellas County’s waste-to-energy facility. You can see the chimneys from I-275. The incineration process generates electricity, and what remains are ash and metals that do not burn. These metals are recycled as well. However, it is possible that we can have an even better impact on the environment if organic materials such as food wastes and plant clippings were composted. On Saturday, October 15, Jan Tracy from Pinellas Solid Waste Facility will show us where ”away” is
when we throw something away, and will shed some light on what more we can do in the future. Join us on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 at 2 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room for a presentation followed by Q&A and refreshments. Fr e e a n d o p e n t o the public. The Main Library is located at 3745 9th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33713.
The Friends of the St. Petersburg Main Library, established in 1961, recognizes the value of our great library and celebrates all it has to offer. Friends’ membership dollars and donations support the library’s outstanding collections, resources and programs — free and accessible to all. —1—
• FRIENDS OF • THE ST. PETERSBURG MAIN LIBRARY Board of Directors Lorraine Franckle — President Mozelle Bell — Secretary Marie Rickey — Treasurer Janis Froelich Jim Hance Debbie Haslam Sheryl Long
Library Staff Mika S. Nelson — City Director Lila Denning — Director of Main Library Angela Falsey — Adult Services Coordinator Paula Alexis —Youth Services Coordinator
We have openings on our Board of Directors. To inquire, contact Friends of the Library president Lorraine Franckle at LJRMD@tampabay.rr.com
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Your Vote is Important This Year — President’s Message By Lorraine Franckle —
Dear Friends of the Main Library, Voting on November 8th is the big event of the season. You may have voted by mail so a trip to the polling precinct is not necessary. Regardless, the results will be made known to the nation that evening. We are blessed to live in a country where we have a choice and can cast our vote without fear. Sometimes we don’t exercise that privilege. Only 27.8% of the registered voters in Pinellas County voted in the primary on August 30th. It is interesting that Pinellas County has almost an equal number of registered Democrats, 224,655, as it does Republicans, 225,290. There are also 174,207 unaffiliated registered voters and 1,809 registered as Libertarian for a total of 625,961 registered voters. The Republicans had the highest voter turnout on August 30th with 34.8%.* You should have received a new voter’s registration card in June. Everyone in Pinellas county was issued a new card because of the redistricting of
all three of the state senate districts and the two U.S. congressional districts that lie in Pinellas County. ALL of the state senate seats will be on the ballot (usually only half are because they have a four year term) and all the house seats (two year term). This is a unique opportunity to make some meaningful changes in the state legislature. I heard on NPR that young voters, the college students, millennials are not as engaged in this election process compared to the past two presidential elections. The outcome of this presidential election will have more effect on their future than on the older generation. So encourage your family to make thoughtful, informed decisions and become part of the democratic process by voting. If you don’t vote, you cannot complain about the outcome! * Data from the website of Deborah Clark, Supervisor of Elections, Pinellas County
NOV. 19 — ST. PETERSBURG WRITERS BOOK FAIR The Friends of the Main Library are hosting four local writers in the auditorium of the Main Library — 3745 9th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33713 on the afternoon of Nov. 19, 2016, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The writers will speak about their work, answer questions and have books available for sale.
Anda Peterson
Michael Ciafone
Patti Wilson Byars
Ruth Whitney
Walks With Yogi
Silent Cries
Separate Fountains
The Heart of Jesus’ Teaching
Taking guidance from the Buddha and a host of wise teachers Anda Peterson embarks on what she calls an “enlightenment experiment” as she sets out to practice non-attachment and discover a life of peace and fulfillment.
This book is about Michael’s journey from having a traumat ic br ai n injury at age 10 through the next 27 years of his life, not knowing what he had. Note taking and writing has been his passion and survival tools to living with his traumatic brain injury.
A firsthand look at a notso-long-ago era in American histor y by an author who lived its pages — all in a town where blacks and whites didn’t mix. Patti Wilson Byars describes a town where bigotry, along with the magnolias, was in full bloom.
In this daring and hopeful book, theologian Ruth Whitney calls on Christians everywhere to re-awaken to Jesus’ original message: that “the presence of the divine is within” all of us and all creation: we are all sacred. Jesus’ second fundamental message is LOVE.
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— By Janis D. Froelich — Sipping café au lait with Inspector Gamache or plying on makeup with Agatha Raisin are some of my favorite imaginary past times. I’m a mystery novel fan and I count Louise Penny and M.C. Beaton among my favorite authors. In fact, I’m rather obsessive when I get my hands on a scintillating series. If I catch hold of a writer I adore in the who-done-it genre, I really must read all of that author’s work — usually in a short period of time. And yes, the Agatha Christie bug latched on to me about five or so years ago. I’ve read every one of her 66 detective novels and intimately know the endearing quirks of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. That’s why I love the St. Petersburg main library. Sure, I can order a copy of There Goes the Bride by Beaton online from the library. But I also know that the 9th Avenue facility has lots of copies on its shelves. Here’s my drill: First walk (no running) to the “B” section of fiction and check out what I haven’t read yet of Beaton’s. I try not to scream joyfully when I find one. Then I go immediately to the LP section where there just might be
another novel awaiting me. THIS BINGE READING
of one author isn’t all pretty. Here’s what happened recently. I’m seated contently at my latest book club until it turns out I’m the only woman there out of 12 who hasn’t read the assigned book, Girl in the Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland. I try to laugh off my neglect as we go around the room collecting opinions. But then the woman next to me holds up a detailed chart to explain the book, thus making my “I didn’t read it” come across like weak tea. The reason I came uncharacteristically unprepared is that zany Raisin woman. I was immersed in novels about her. Speaking of tea time, Agatha Raisin likes scones with hers and she also drinks a lot of coffee and G and T (gin and tonic). Again, I feel as if I know this owner of a small village detective agency extremely well. The point of a series is to create lasting followers of a certain author. There’s a puzzle to solve — and/ or a fireworks bang of a surprise in the
end. And what I cherish as a reader is different. I’m attracted not so much to complex plots. I get hooked when a mystery seesaws between totally convincing and highly unrealistic. It’s that sweet/ salty balance that brings me back, again and again. And if the main character isn’t interesting then I’m not interested. I enjoy sputtering as I read Mrs. Raisin is still in her early 50s (What? For like the past 20 years!!!). She microwaves dinner — even for guests — hates the cigarette smoking ban and bats her false eyelashes in pursuit of everlasting love. Her adventures are human and often humorous (dry wit in the case of the British), despite the dead bodies piling up. Same with P.D. James’ Adam Dalgliesh and Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Whimsey — it’s the character being a character! Charles Todd writes a more serious series starring either Ian Rutledge or Bess Crawford. Ian Rankin is offering Inspector Rebus, a pain in the behind but a damn good copper. And then there’s the fluff from Janet Evanovich and Jess Lourey. I could go on and on… just like these captivating mystery novels. Instead, let’s read!
Concerts Feature Strauss, MacDowell and Dvorak — By Mozelle Bell — The Tampa Bay Symphony, under the baton of music director Mark Sforzini, will give three fall concerts in Clearwater, St. Petersburg, and Tampa. Featured will be Andrew Karr, assistant principal French horn of The Florida Orchestra, who will play the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. Strauss, whose father was a professional horn player, wrote horn calls and horn solos in some of his symphonic works, such as Till Eulenspiegel’s “Merry Pranks”. The theme of these concerts is “Forests and Folk Songs.” Edward MacDowell’s Suite No.1 opens with “In a Haunted Forest,” which is appropriately spooky for the Halloween
season. Another piece in the Ave. N in St. Petersburg; and Suite is “Forest Spirits,” Sunday, November 6, at 4:00 p.m. at Ferguson Hall, Straz perhaps wood sprites who have fun flying around in Center for the Performing the forest. Dvorak’s Eighth Arts, Tampa. Tickets at the door are Symphony has themes that sound like folk songs from $20 for adults. Free tickets for students are available in his native Bohemia. He used spirituals from America Mark Sforzini advance and also at the door. in his Ninth “New World” Students 18 and over must show student ID. Symphony. Concerts will be Sunday, October 30, Mark Sforzini will host a Symphonic at 4:00 p.m. in the Arts Auditorium on Chat, an entertaining and informative the St. Petersburg College Clearwater lecture and demonstration of the works campus at 2465 Drew St., made possible to be performed, on Thursday, October in part by the support of St. Petersburg 27, 7 p.m., in Preis Hall at Opera Central, College; on Tuesday, November 1, at 8:00 2145 First Avenue S, St. Petersburg. p.m. at the Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Tickets are $15 at the door. —3—
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Friends of the St. Petersburg Main Library Calendar Oct. 15 | 2 p.m. Where does your trash go? Nov. 19 | 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. St. Petersburg Writers Book Fair Dec. 10 | 2 p.m. Dover Street Trio Jan. 14 | 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Antique Evaluation Fair
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DON’T MISS THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF FRIENDS OF THE MAIN LIBRARY
WHERE DOES YOUR TRASH GO? Speaker: Jan Tracy, County Waste-to-Energy Program Saturday, October 15th • 2:00 p.m. T H A N K Y O U TO O UR 2016 ME MBE R S! Alton & Mary Babineau Andrew & Marion Barnes Mozelle Bell Greg & Bertie Bloxom Norman Bungard Bethia Caffery Dr Charles & Nancy Christ Harry & Margaret Eisenaugle Jadwiga Elliott Dennis Esposito Christa Fairbrother Neil & Lorraine Franckle Janis Froelich Stewart & Betty Goldie
Leslie Greene James Hance Debbie Haslam Doris Heitlerl John and Edith Holtzclaw Francis Gallagher Larry Hooker Trudy James Bonnie Jorgenson James Kennedy Keith Kewley Constance Kone Peter & Kathy Lefferson Dr Morris & Marilyn Levine
Anne Long Sheryl Long Deborah Lopez Ray Luck Cheryl MacNeill Maryanne Mulder Carolyn Nygren David Query Jean Reed Marie Rickey William Rollins Ronda Russick Dolores Scalels
Jimmy & Joann Schmal Laura Schmid Sharron Scott Linn Sennott Harold & Francis Shattenberg Sydney Shollenberger Lorraine Smith Dolores Smith Harriet Stein Amy Stiff Barbara Tyson Kathryn Voskuil Peter & Helen Wallace