{"id":33689,"date":"2013-03-07T21:55:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=33689"},"modified":"2013-03-07T21:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:55:05","slug":"briggs-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/briggs-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Briggs Library News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March Is Reading Month and more<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>March Is Reading Month &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Catch Me&#8221; <\/strong><br \/>\nJoin us in our celebration of reading during the month of March. Our breakfast program was lots of fun!!! There are still a few openings for the &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Catch Me Lunch&#8221; for ages 3-5 years old with an adult, Tuesday, March 12th, noon -1 pm. You bring a bag lunch and we provide a beverage &#038; treat. &#8220;I&#8217;m the Gingerbread Man&#8221; evening program for family fun for the young, Tuesday, March 19th, 7-8pm. We provide a lite snack &#038;beverage for all to enjoy. All programs will include &#8220;sweet stories&#8221; music, games or crafts. Registration is required for all of these free programs. Reading logs for ages 7 and under and 8 and over will be available at the circulation desk to track reading throughout the month of March. Turn completed reading logs in to earn small prizes!<br \/>\n<strong>Bookaholics Book Club<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is still time to pick up your copy of Mitch Albom&#8217;s &#8220;The Time Keeper,&#8221; and join the Bookaholics book club at our next meeting, which will take place at Bruno&#8217;s Bar in downtown St. Johns Thursday, March 21 at 7:30pm. All adult patrons ages 21 and up with a valid library card are invited to participate.<br \/>\n<strong>Library Fundraiser<\/strong><br \/>\nThe library will be hosting a fundraising sale from March 1st to March 28th. There will be audiobooks, VHS tapes and DVDs and a selection of new and used books available. Each item will sell for $1 with the proceeds being used to purchase new audio titles, new DVDs, and new large print and juvenile titles.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Tick-Tock&#8221; Toddler Storytime<\/strong><br \/>\nToddlers ages 2-3 years old with an adult are invited to share time listening to age appropriate stories, enjoying music and creative movement. We offer three sessions: Wednesday mornings, 10-10:30 am, March 27th-May 1st OR Thursday mornings, 10-10:30 am, March 28th-May 2nd OR Thursday evenings, 6:30-7pm, March 28th-May 2nd. Registration is required and is open now. A fun &#8220;Time&#8221; will be had by all!<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEaster Bunny Program<\/strong><br \/>\nCelebrate Easter at the Library with the Easter Bunny! On Tuesday, March 26 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. the Easter Bunny will be hopping into the Briggs Library for free photographs as well as a snack, game and craft for kids to enjoy. Registration is required for kids of all ages.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Contact Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nLibrary Director: Sara Morrison<br \/>\nPhone: 989-224-4702 * Fax: 989-224-1205<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:smorrison@briggspubliclibrary.org\">smorrison@briggspubliclibrary.org<\/a><br \/>\nStreet address: 108 E Railroad * Saint Johns, MI 48879<br \/>\n<strong>Library Closures<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Library will be closed on Monday February 18th in observance of the President&#8217;s Day Holiday. The drop box on the Library porch will be available for returns during these closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Is Reading Month and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briggs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}