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June 2025 |
Welcome to our monthly newsletter featuring all that's happening at your library.
Photo courtesy of the Strathroy Library. |
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Looking for fun, creativity, and great reads this summer? Join Summer at the Library!
This year we're offering four exciting programs for all ages: the more you read, the more chances you’ll have to win! Registration for reading programs opens Friday, June 27.
Enjoy engaging events and creative activities all summer long! Some are drop-in, others may require registration. Visit your local branch or check our online calendar for details.
Make this summer your most exciting yet — with stories, prizes, and fun at the library! |
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Mosquito & Tick Prevention Program
Join Steve Tomé, Vector Borne Disease Field Technician with the Middlesex-London Health Unit, in person or virtually to learn about keeping your family safe from virus and diseases transmited by ticks and mosquitos. Where: In person at the Strathroy Library or virtually on Zoom
When: Thursday, June 19 at 6:45pm Registration required: Call the Strathroy Library at 519-245-1290 or Register Online Now!
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Summer Snack Drive
Help us help kids! Middlesex County Library is looking for help to stock non-perishable, peanut-free snacks for children visiting the library this summer. Donations can be dropped off at any library branch. Donations accepted June 16-30. |
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Parkhill Quiet Pod
Now available for online booking - the Parkhill Library's Quiet Pod! The pod has bench seating for four, around a small table. This space can be reserved online for up to 3 hours at a time, up to 14 days in advance. Book the Parkhill Pod, or pods in Komoka, Thorndale, Strathroy and Ailsa Craig on our website.
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Upcoming Closure
All Middlesex County Library branches will be closed on Tuesday, July 1 for Canada Day. |
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Little Sensory Seekers in Strathroy
Visit our Strathroy sensory room and experience the magic of light sensory play! Light sensory play uses lights, shadows, and transparent materials to stimulate imagination and creativity in child development. Drop-in.
Thursday, June 26: 9-11 a.m. (children 0-6 years) OR 1-3 p.m. (children 0-12 months) Friday, June 27: 10 a.m.-12 p.m. OR 2-4 p.m. (both children 0-6 years) Saturday, June 28: 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (children 0-6 years)
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Messy Sensory Play
Join Amanda Hutton, EarlyON Coordinator at Enji Maajtaawaad (Chippewa of the Thames First Nation) for hands on fun with materials that your child can touch, squeeze, and mix! Enjoy a calming sensory light area too. Free take-home-kit to make your own slime! Best suited for children 2-6 years of age. This program is for Indigenous families who live in Middlesex County or local First Nations communities.
Registration required: register online now! |
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Introducing KEyON
Attention Strathroy EarlyON attendees! We are launching a digital sign in system in June to make checking in easier than ever.
If you attend activities at our Strathroy EarlyON location, please register today for the KEyON system. Once registered, your family will receive a key tag on your next visit. Bonus: you will also be able to scan in from your phone!
Register today: https://www.keyon.ca/ |
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| Alice Schertle | When a newcomer arrives at the farm, setting all the animals atwitter, Blue knows just what to do to help his friends, old and new, feel at home.
Suggested by Anne, Lucan Branch Assistant |
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| Allie Brosh |
The creator of the award-winning Hyperbole and a Half presents a new collection of comedic, autobiographical and deceptively illustrated essays on topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness and powerlessness in modern life.
Suggested by Tyson, Dorchester Branch Assistant |
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| Katherine Heiny |
Divorcing his wife to marry his girlfriend, Audra, is the one impulsive thing Graham Cavanaugh has ever done. Audra is charming and spontaneous and fun, but life with her can be exhausting, constantly interrupted by phone calls, burdened by houseguests, and populated by old men with backpacks full of origami paper. As Graham and Audra struggle to define their marriage and raise a child with Asperger's, they decide to establish a friendship with his first wife, Elspeth. But former spouses are hard to categorize--are they friends, enemies, old flames, or just people who know you really, really well?
Suggested by Sylvia, Parkhill Branch Assistant |
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| Robin Wall Kimmerer | The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass explains how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
Suggested by Lynn, Komoka Branch Assistant |
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| Gill Sims |
Written from the point of view of an exhausted mom at the end of the day, the author and editor behind the extremely popular parenting blog,“Peter and Jane,” humorously describes her fight to stay current, youthful and sane.
Suggested by Karen, Komoka Branch Assistant |
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| Ken Follett |
Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the USA's first woman president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful countries that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
Suggested by Aimee, Technical Services Coordinator |
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