Friday, August 21: Blood Pressure Monitoring

Mark your calendars:  At 11AM on the third Friday of every month, visiting nurse Kim Berdine, LPN, will offer FREE blood pressure monitoring.  The first visit is Friday, August 21 at 11AM.

July 23 @ 6PM: Coffee House Concert with R.G. Evans

Join us for coffee house concert with singer, guitarist, composer, & poet R. G. Evans who will perform his original songs at the library on Thursday, July 23^rd at 6pm. Evans composed the music and theme song, “The Crows of Paterson,” for What Lies Between, a documentary film on the New Jersey poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Apart from his performances at musical venues throughout the New Jersey area, Evans is a published poet whose work has appeared in literary journals such as Rattle and the Paterson Literary Review. His first book, Overtipping the Ferryman, won the 2014 Aldrich Press Poetry Award, and he currently teaches high school and college English and Creative Writing.

Please contact the library to register for this free event.  Call (8560 783-0602 or email library@stratfordnj.org.

Tuesday, July 14 @ 1PM: Book Cafe takes on To Kill a Mockingbird

The monthly Book Cafe group usually discusses a variety of books.  This month, however, the group has decided they want to prepare for the coming publication of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman by re-reading and discussing To Kill a Mockingbird.  All are welcome to join us for what we expect to be a lively discussion!  If you are interested, please contact the library so that we will have enough refreshments available.

Friday, July 3: Library Closed in Observance of Independence Day

Friday, July 10: Raptors & Reptiles at the Library!

Mark your calendars!  The naturalists of Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge are going to be our superheroes of the day on July 10, as they join us at the library for a presentation on Raptors & Reptiles. Please contact the library to register for this exciting free event, which is being presented as part of the Summer Reading Program! The library offers its warmest thanks to the Schwartz family for sponsoring this visit.

Ready, set READ!

The Summer Reading program has begun!  Stop by the library to pick up your Reading Log to track your reading.  For every 15 minutes of reading, you get a chance to win a prize.  We have free books and tickets to places like Sahara Sam's and the Philadelphia Zoo, and there will be winners every week, so get started!

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Next event:  Camp out on the floor on Monday 6/29 at 6:30pm for a showing of "Despicable Me."

Summer Reading is Coming Soon!

Calling all readers, age 5 to 12!  Join us for our Summer Reading program from June 26th through July 31. We have some fun plans to turn YOU into a Reading Hero this year:

• Keep track of the time you spend reading for chances to win fun prizes, like tickets to Sahara Sam's, Clementon Park, the Philadelphia Zoo and more.  The more you read, the more chances you get to win.  We will choose a name EVERY WEEK!
• Fridays are HERO days, as we have special heroic activities from 11AM to 12:30PM. Themes include: Superhero Training Camp, Wildlife/Environmental Heroes, Real-Life Heroes, Heroes for my Country, and the Hero in All of Us.
• Monday Evening Movie Features: Bring your sleeping bag, pillow and even come in your PJs and sack out on our floor for a Superhero Movie of the Week. (Note for Parents: depending on the interest we receive, we are planning to show G or PG movies, such as Megamind, Despicable Me, The Incredibles, G-Force, Sky High, Sky Kids, Fantastic Four, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original--1990).

Stop in all month to tell us about your reading and see what contests we may have going on. Capture supervillains on the loose in the library, or show us superhero trivia knowledge.

Please contact the library at (856) 783-0602 or email libraryasstdirector@stratfordnj.org to register for Summer Reading.