Mark your calendars! Adult programs in September target health

Friday, September 18, at 11AM:  Medicare & You
Do you have questions about how Medicare works? This educational seminar will help you understand the program.

Friday September 18, at 11AM: Free Blood Pressure Monitoring with visiting nurse, Kim Berdine, LPN.

Thursday, September 24, at 2PM: A Lesson in Sleep: the Good, the Bad and the Sleep-Deprived
A seminar conducted by Edwin C. Frost, R.R.T, discussing the importance of sleep, potential sleep disorders, and the options for remedying sleep problems.

Mark your calendars! Storytime returns on Monday, Sept. 14 at 6:30PM

Beginning Monday, September 14, 2015, at 6:30PM, our Autumn Storytime session returns!  Our story hours are aimed at ages 3 to 6.  Please feel free to contact the library with any questions about the program's activities or content.  See the calendar on this page for the dates for this session.  Registration is required for this free program. Call the library at (856) 783-0602 or send an email. 

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.