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Palm Springs Public Library - Discover, Enrich, Enjoy, Connect! 4 October 2008, Saturday |
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'Its Story time'
Location: Youth Room - Story Room
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BABIES & BOOKS is a new story time just for parents/care givers and for their babies who are not yet walking, on WEDNESDAYS from 10:00-11:00 a.m.
READ-TO-ME is a time for toddlers who are walking, up to age 3, on THURSDAYS from 10:00-11:00 a.m. There will be stories and songs and playtime with other children.
For those BUSY-FINGERS, children ages 3 - 5 years old, they will enjoy stories and crafts just for them on THURSDAYS from 11:00 to 11:50 a.m.
Join us on Saturdays from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for SUPER SATURDAY STORIES, where the whole family is welcome.
These programs are free and will be held in the 'Story Room' in the Youth Department. For more information call the Youth Department at 323-8199.
Third Annual Pumpkin decorating contest
Location: Youth Room - Story Room
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During the month of October the public is invited to bring in a decorated, not carved, pumpkin of any size, shape or color that has been decorated with paint, markers, fabric, or any other material you wish into the Palm Springs Public Library for display.
The pumpkins will be on display during the month in the Youth department. To be part of the contest turn in your decorated pumpkin no later than Oct. 25th at 5:00 p.m. Winners will be announced at the program on Mon. Oct. 27th at 6:00 p.m.
For more information call the Youth Department at 323-8199.
Author Lecture: Robert Scheer
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: The Learning Center
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Mr. Scheer brings a lifetime of wisdom and 40 years of journalism experience to this complex and timely topic. He examines the quiet expansion of our military presence throughout the world, our nuclear strategy, and questions the morality of corporations profiting in Iraq. This is one discussion you won't want to miss!
Robert Scheer has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his 30 years as a journalist. His columns appear in newspapers across the country, and his in-depth interviews have made headlines. He conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart and he went on to do many interviews for the Los Angeles Times with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and many other prominent political and cultural figures.
Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. From 1976 to 1993 he served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, writing on diverse topics such as the Soviet Union, arms control, national politics and the military. In 1993 he launched a nationally syndicated column based at the Los Angeles Times, where he was named a contributing editor. That column ran weekly for the next 12 years and is now based at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is currently the editor in chief of Truthdig.com.
Scheer is co-host of the political radio program “Left, Right and Center,” produced by KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, and broadcast on NPR stations around the country. He has written seven books, including Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power; With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War and America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals; with his son Christopher and Lakshmi Chaudhry, The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq. Most recently, he wrote Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I and Clinton—and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush.
Scheer was raised in the Bronx, where he attended public schools and graduated from City College of New York. He studied as a Maxwell fellow at Syracuse University and was a fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley, where he did graduate work in economics. Scheer is a contributing editor for The Nation as well as a Nation Fellow. He has also been a Poynter fellow at Yale, and was a fellow in arms control at Stanford. He is currently Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication.
The lecture will be from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in The Learning Center (TLC).
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