CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Sharon Wilson our seventh winner in the weekly drawing for the Adult Winter Reading Program. Sharon will receive a free book, and a lighthouse bird feeder donated by Caseville True Value Hardware.

READING PROGRAM PARTY
Adults who have participated in our Winter Reading Program are invited to an
end-of-program party which will be held in the library’s Community Room on Thursday, March 19th, beginning at 5:00 PM. Come for the food, fellowship, fun, and prizes.

LAP-SIT STORY TIME AND PRE-SCHOOL STORY HOUR
“Nursery Rhymes” will be the theme for Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Usually one half-hour session is held for Lap-Sit Story Time each Tuesday at 10:00 AM with parent and child attending the story time and Pre-School Story Hour is held each Tuesday at 10:30 AM. In both sessions, children listen to stories and participate in finger plays, songs and crafts. There is no cost for this service and new families are always welcome. For more information, please call the library at 453-2341 and ask for Jane Himmel.

APPECIATION DINNER
The Pigeon District Library Board of Trustees invites you to attend the library’s Appreciation Dinner to be held in the Library Community room on Thursday evening, April 2, 2009. Punch will be served at 6:00 PM and the library will be open for viewing. Dinner will follow at 6:30 PM. The evening’s program will feature motivational speaker, Elaine Bickel. Cost of reservation is $10.00 per person, and seating is limited to the first 125 reservations. Please join us for food, fellowship, and fun. Reservation forms may be picked up at the library and are due by Monday, March 23.

MUSICAL JAMBOREE
Each year our library hosts a Musical Jamboree which features local, talented individuals. We are looking for people willing to do one vocal or instrumental selection for this year’s Musical Jamboree which is scheduled for Tuesday, April 14th, beginning at 7:00 PM in our Community Room.

If you are interested or know someone who is interested in sharing his/her talent with the community, please call the library at 453-2341 and ask for Janet or Stephanie.

LIBRARY HOURS
Beginning April 7th , the library will be open every Tuesday and Thursday until
7:00 PM. Hours on the other days remain the same-Monday and Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

MICHIGAN AND FEDERAL TAX FORMS ARE HERE!
The library has received a limited supply of Michigan and Federal tax forms. If the tax form you need is not available in paper form, someone on the library staff will assist you in retrieving it from a tax form website. We are pleased to be a source for income tax forms but wish to remind everyone that library staff members are not tax professionals and cannot provide tax advice or assistance with e-filing and tax preparation.

ALADDIN ELECTRONIC COLOR MAGNIFIER FOR CHECK-OUT
The library has an Aladdin Electronic Color Magnifier available for a one month
check-out to PDL patrons. The magnifier will allow all patrons to read library materials. It can be used to assist with viewing family photos or to read small print often found when looking up information in the newspaper. The Aladdin Magnifier is very easy to use, is portable and compact. The library staff will be happy to give a demonstration and then you will see how easy it is to operate.

DON’T FORGET YOUR LIBRARY CARD
To prevent errors from occurring, library patrons are required to present their library card or driver’s license when checking out library materials. If you are having someone else pick up your library items, you must give that person your library card or call ahead of time to let us know who will be picking up your library materials.

NEW MATERIALS
Books:
Fiction
Corsair by Clive Cussler
Life Sentences by Laura Lippman

Audio Fiction
Night and Day by Robert B. Parker

Audio Non-Fiction
Defiance by Nechama Tec
“The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims. But in fact, many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. This is the riveting history of one such group: a forest community numbering more than 1,200 that carried out the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.”