January 2016

Clarksburg Branch Library

Yolo County Library

52915 Netherlands Road

Clarksburg, CA 95612

Please join us at the Friends’ annual general meeting, held in

the activity room of the library. We’ll be adding new members

to the Board and celebrating the library’s 50th anniversary.

Appetizers and beverages will be served in honor of this major

milestone. We’ll also be discussing the digitization process of

the Friends’ collection of historic photographs, many of which

will be on display for the occasion.

All residents and those served by the library are asked to

attend. We hope to see you there!

LIBRARY HOURS

Tuesday and

Thursday

9:30am—noon,

1:00pm—7:30pm

Wednesday

5:30pm—7:30pm

Saturday

9:30am—1:00pm

Phone:

(916) 744-1755

Friends of the Clarksburg Library

ANNUAL MEETING & 50TH ANNIVERSARY

CELEBRATION

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2-5PM

What a great 2015! Many, many exciting activi-

ties kept the library buzzing all year long. Read on to

see what your library has to offer...besides just

books, magazines, eBooks, music, movies, comput-

ers, and faxing/photocopying/printing services.

HIGHLIGHTS

Bilingual Storytime/Playschool Experience:

George Halverson, Chair of the First 5 California

Children and Families Commission said: “The most

recent science tells us that exercising the brains of

babies in the first years of life has an extremely pow-

erful impact on their development. We know that

the more early engagement and stimulation a child

receives, the stronger their cognitive skills, emotion-

al well-being, and physical and mental health will

be.” Thanks to a First 5 Yolo grant and Yolo County

Children’s Alliance, each Tuesday at 3:30pm the li-

brary hosts a dynamic program of English and

Spanish stories, songs, and movement designed to

promote early literacy for children 2-6 and their

caregivers. Talk. Read. Sing. It changes everything.

Día de los Niños is a celebration every day of chil-

dren, families, and reading that culminates yearly

on April 30th. The celebration emphasizes the im-

portance of literacy for children of all linguistic and

cultural backgrounds. In 2015, Clarksburg Commu-

nity Library celebrated on April 29th with 66 chil-

dren and their families: There were Mexican folk

dancers, face painting, crafts, book giveaways, and a

piñata raffle. Join us on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016

for another celebration.

Summer Reading Program: Studies show that

summer reading programs counteract the summer

slide, or loss of academic skills:

Free, voluntary reading is essential to helping

students become better readers, writers, and

spellers. Summer reading programs help

increase young people’s interest in reading.

Summer reading programs encourage parents to

read with their children and highlight the joys of

reading aloud. Reading aloud to children at an

early age is the most effective way to help them

learn language and to communicate with the

written word.

A whopping 142 Clarksburg community members

participated in Yolo County Library’s 2015 Summer

Reading Program (SRP): Read to the Rhythm.

Reading, attending programs (bugs, bats, musicians

were some of the stars), winning prizes, and partici-

pating in the end of the summer Pizza Party and

Raffle. Don Griffay was the grand prize winner of a

Kindle Fire HD! Join us June 1st–August 15th 2016,

when the SRP theme will be Sports and Games!

Lunch @ the Library: Between June 8th–August

16th, over 320 nutritious meals were served to

Clarksburg children and teens through this program

designed by the California Summer Meals Coalition

and the California Library Association. YMCA of Su-

perior California sponsored this program and the

Elk Grove School District supplied lunch on Tues-

days and Thursdays to coincide with library pro-

gramming. Because of its great success, we can look

forward to Lunch @ the Library again next summer!

Lucky Day Collection: Want to read the newest

Lee Child or Nora Roberts, but don’t want to wait

months for a copy to be available at the library?

Check out YCL’s Lucky Day Collection: These hot

titles can be found at Clarksburg Community

Library...if you’re lucky! Popular, new books can be

checked out for one week. Stop by the branch to see

what’s on the shelf today!

COMING SOON

Find out about library events at our website:

www.yolocounty.org, flyers posted at the library and

post office, and on Nextdoor.com/city/clarksburg--

ca. Contact the library at (916) 744-1755 or

margaret.kaplan@yolocounty.org.

THIS YEAR AT THE LIBRARY by librarian Margaret Pelrine

BY THE NUMBERS

Items checked out:

9,356

New library cards

issued: 129

Visitors to the

library: 10,909

Class visits: 1,921

Reference questions

answered: 5,113

Library programs: 92

Activities Room usage:

97 times, thanks in large

part to ReDirect Yoga,

offered twice a week

(compiled by librarian

Margaret Pelrine)

Did you know? It’s not a fancy book return—the Little Free

Library is a place where community members can exchange non-

library books. So please take a book or leave a book to share!

The library welcomes a new service! Bring in your used household batteries

and cellphones to the library and they’ll be properly recycled. Brought to

you by the Yolo County Division of Integrated Waste Management.

Show your support for the library!

GET YOUR CLARKSBURG READS T-SHIRT!

LITTLE FREE LIBRARY

HOUSEHOLD BATTERY RECYCLING

Now available

at the library for

$20 each

All proceeds will support the services and programs of the library

Men’s, women’s, and

children’s sizes

ACTIVITY ROOM

Our activity room was

completely remodeled in

2014 and it looks fantastic!

It’s the perfect setting for

your next meeting or social

gathering, with reasonable

rental rates. Please contact

librarian Margaret Pelrine

for availability and details.

2015 WINE TASTING AND ART AUCTION

You may have noticed that the library exterior was repainted a nice blue-green

color this past summer. Our thanks to Dennis Updegraff for undertaking this

important project!

Be sure to check out the new concrete patio and disabled parking spot in the

back of the library, by the activity room. Madriago-Lewis Construction did an

amazing job and the back area has never looked better!

The library’s 27th annual benefit on

September 20th was a great success

this year, as we welcomed over 330

guests at the beautiful Heringer

Ranch. We had 16 local wineries, 22

artists providing paintings and 3-D

art for the fine art auction, gourmet

food from Fresh & Quick catering,

and delectable desserts baked by

Clarksburg resident Vicki Pruner.

Thanks to the planning committee:

Amanda Beck, Karen Coffee, Christy

Frame, Rachel Frame, Don Griffay,

Nancy Griffay, Del Parr, Carolyn

Steffens, and Saralyn Taormina, as

well as the many volunteers who

helped!

A very special thanks to the Heringer

family for sharing their amazing

grounds with us again.

And our gratitude to all of the under-

writers, artists, and wineries; we

couldn’t have done it without your

generous support!

Look for more details about the 2016

benefit in the coming months—we

hope to see you there!

FOCL NEEDS VOLUNTEERS

LIBRARY MAINTAINENCE

If you would like to volunteer to help out on future events, or if you have

books, DVDs, or CDs to donate, please let librarian Margaret Pelrine know.

We also need more Board members for 2016! Please email FOCL President

Amanda Beck at papuzabeck@gmail.com if you are interested in joining or

would like more information.

Yukio Tabata

Heidi Sakazaki

Hal and Lona Shipley

Hunn and Merwin and Merwin

Steve and Donna Heringer

Pete and Amanda Beck

Hope Heringer

Gale Hamatani

Don and Claire Fenocchio

Karla Navarro

Norman and Carolyn Slater

Mike and Shelly Hall

Shirley McDonald

Bert and Sue Heffner

Carolyn Slater

Bill and Darleen Isaacson

Earleen Clark

Skip and Lois Seebeck

Rachel Wolf

2015 FOCL ANNUAL DONORS

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WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE LIBRARY

Please consider making a financial contribution to the library—the

Friends need funds to maintain the library building and provide

services and programs to the community.

Suggested levels of giving: □ $15 □ $25 □ $50 □ Other $_____

Please make checks payable to the Friends of the Clarksburg Library, and mail

to: FOCL, PO Box 441, Clarksburg, CA 95612

Your contribution is tax deductible. Please indicate how you wish your name to

be listed in the newsletter than is mailed to the Clarksburg community, or

indicate that it is an anonymous gift by checking here: □

Or if you’d like to serve the Friends of the Clarksburg Library in other ways,

please check the appropriate boxes:

□ Serve as a member of the Board of Directors

□ Volunteer on the annual wine tasting and art auction benefit

□Work on special projects for the Board or library

□ Other (please specify)

Please include a phone number or email address so that we can contact you.

Many thanks for your contribution!

2015 MEMORIAL DONATIONS

Darrell and Joy Ann Merwin

Leslie English, in memory of Gordon English

FOCL NEWS

A publication of the Friends

of the Clarksburg Library.

clarksburglibraryfriends.org

FOCL1965@gmail.com

Editor’s Note:

You received a copy of this

newsletter because the by-

laws of the FOCL specify that

“all individuals living in the

Clarksburg area” are mem-

bers of the organization and

are “entitled to one vote at

general meetings.”

LOCAL BOXHOLDER

CLARKSBURG, CA 95612

Friends of the Clarksburg Library

PO Box 441

Clarksburg, CA 95612

NONPROFIT ORG.

US POSTAGE PAID

CLARKSBURG, CA 95612

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