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August 13, 2010 |
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As the summer winds down, it is time to start thinking about getting yards and gardens ready for fall and winter. Beginning Tuesday, August 17, Omaha Public Library’s Millard Branch, 13214 Westwood Ln., will present a series of programs on lawn and garden care. The programs include planting edible crops in the fall to harvest in the spring; a workshop on identifying weeds and what to do about them; learning how to select, cut and arrange flowers from your garden; and the advantages to planting bushes and trees in autumn. The presenters are Douglas/Sarpy County Extension Office master gardeners and a Metropolitan Community College horticulturist. The programs are free and open to the public and do not require advanced registration. |
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August 05, 2010 |
The end of summer is approaching, but there is still time to attend a class for fun or to be entertained by an Omaha author. Omaha Public Library’s Millard Branch, 13214 Westwood Ln., is offering three special programs on August 10, 13 and 16.
The first program is a class on how to make floral arrangements using summer and fall flowers and foliage. This program will be offered August 10, 6:30 p.m. The session will be taught by Jan Hiner, floriculture instructor at Metropolitan Community College. |
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August 04, 2010 |
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Omaha Public Library is pleased to present a Contemporary Botanical Art exhibit August 2-31, in the Michael Phipps Gallery located in W. Dale Clark Main Library, 215 S. 15th St. A reception August 12, 5-7 p.m., will feature tastings of heirloom tomatoes from Iowana Farm in Crescent, Iowa and Artisan Goat Cheese from Honey Creek Creamery. The exhibit will show works of botanical artists, Cynthia Gehrie, Mary Morris Vaux Walcott and Yvonne Garden. |
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August 02, 2010 |
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Historic forts once hosted presidents, foreign dignitaries and some of the most famous names of the Old West. They were among the first to receive word of the disaster at Little Bighorn and saw the surrender and deaths of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Omaha writer Jeff Barnes has visited more than 50 of these outposts of the American frontier and has written a book titled “Forts of the Northern Plains: Guide to Historic Military Posts of the Plains Indian Wars.” On August 16, 7 p.m., at Millard Branch, 13214 Westwood Ln, Jeff Barnes will discuss Nebraska’s 12 military forts and what current visitors will find at the sites. |
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July 26, 2010 |
Once again the librarians at Omaha Public Library are going to great lengths to get kids to read this summer. The Summer Reading Program water theme, ‘Make a Splash” and “Make Waves at your Library,” has spurred creative thinking on the part of Omaha kids and teens as they meet their librarians’ challenges to read.
Kids’ librarian Nancy Chmiel accepted the challenge to spend the night on the roof at Saddlebrook Branch if kids read 20,000 books. The Saddlebrook kids have risen to the challenge and read more than 27,000 books. Nancy will display her courage by climbing a ladder to the Saddlebrook Branch roof, 14850 Laurel Ave., on Thursday, July 29, at 7 p.m. She will be armed with a super soaker to drench any passerby who won’t let her get her beauty sleep. She will spend the night on the roof and come down the following morning at 10 a.m. Kids and their families are welcome to support Nancy as she climbs to the roof and to keep her company on the ground throughout the night. |
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