News & Notes from the Blanding Library

Coming Events at the Blanding

The next two meetings of Legos at the Library will be on Sat. Dec. 10 and Sat. Jan. 14 at 10:30 a.m. The Legos club is open to all ages and meets on the second Saturday of the month, at the same time. We are grateful for donations of any new or used Legos for this ongoing program.

The library is again sponsoring the popular gingerbread house program for children on Tues.-Wed., Dec. 13-14, 3:30 to 5 p.m. You can call the library to see if any spaces remain for this very popular program, sponsored by the Friends of the Blanding Library.

The Friends of the Blanding Library will be sending out membership renewals soon. We hope you will renew your membership and encourage others to join our organization of volunteers who support the library. Membership is $10 a year. The Friends sponsor a number of library programs, for adults and children, and help the library purchase much needed items such as bookshelves, copiers and printers, among other things.

The first meeting of the Blanding book club in the new year will be on Wed. Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. This month’s book is “Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World” by Linda Hirshman. Copies are available at the library.

If you’re looking for things to do over the holidays, remember that you can use your library card (free to all town residents) to borrow discount passes to many local museums and attractions. Find out more at blandinglibrary.net or call the library at 508-252-4236.

The first meeting of the Blanding book club in the new year will be on Wed. Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. This month’s book is “Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World” by Linda Hirshman. Copies are available at the library.

New Year, New Story Hours
The new year will bring a series of new story hours for children. Tot Time for children under age 3 will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays from Jan.10 through Feb. 28. This is a 30-minute session of books, music and movement for little ones.

Story and craft hours for children ages 3 to kindergarten will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. on either Wed. or Thurs., from Jan. 11 through Feb. 15. Call or drop by the Blanding to register. Children must be registered for each story hour series.

The Blanding Library will be closed for the Christmas Dec. 24-26. We thank all the hard-working library staff and volunteers who have made the Blanding such a key part of community life in Rehoboth this past year and wish everyone happy holidays!