September is National Library Card Sign-up Month

September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, and the Buena Park Library District wants to remind you that "The Smartest Card is @ your library" - it's your library card. "Your library card is your ticket to opportunity," says Kathleen Wade, Public Services Manager. "What other card in your wallet gives you free access to books and CDs, magazines and movies and all sorts of other resources that can change your life - or just make it a little more fun?"

"Smartest Card" activities at the Buena Park Library will begin as a new user signs up for a new library card: he or she will receive a bookmark, pencil, refrigerator magnet and a "Bookstore Buck" to be used towards purchases of used books in our Volunteer Guild Bookstore. New Library card holders will also get a chance to enter three opportunity drawings: a Children's backpack with a book; a Teen backpack with a book; and a Buena Park Library book bag for adults with a book.

For more information on how you can sign up for your library card, visit the Buena Park Library District at 7150 La Palma Ave., between Knott and Western Avenues in Buena Park, call 714-826-4100 or see the library's Web site. The Library's hours are Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Observed since 1987, Library Card Sign-up Month is a time when the ALA and libraries across the country remind parents that a library card is the most important school supply of all. Remember, the best kept secret should not be a secret...tell a friend that September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month!

Free Financial Planning Seminar -- Saturday, September 10th

The Buena Park Library District is co-sponsoring a free financial awareness seminar with Citinet Mortgage. The seminar, entitled Maximize Your Credit Score, will be held on Saturday, September 10, 2005 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in the Buena Park Library’s 2nd floor Board Room, located at 7150 La Palma Avenue, Buena Park, California. The guest speaker will be Sylvia Woodside.

Topics to be covered during the program include:

• What is a credit score?
• The three credit bureaus.
• How do I get my credit report?
• Improving your credit score.

This program is free of charge and the public is invited to attend. No reservations are necessary. For more information, please call the Buena Park Library District Reference Desk at 714-826-4100, extension 125.

Book Authors to Sign Books on Monday, August 29th

Authors will reveal writing, publishing, career & web marketing secrets on Monday, August 29, 2005 at 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the downstairs auditorium of the Buena Park Library District.

This event is presented by the Buena Park Library & Publishers Roundtable. The authors will have books for signing.

Please see our printable flier for more information.

Authors present will be:

• Carol J. Amato
  Carol J. Amato is the author of 19 books and 125 articles. Her latest book, The Lost Treasure of the Golden Sun, is the first title in a new mystery series, The Phantom Hunters!™ for ages 10 and up. She'll speak on "Getting Your Book Published."
  
  
• Jeanne Lazo
  Jeanne Lazo is the author of three new books: If Looks Could Kill, a mystery for ages ten and up, If Looks Could Kill Teacher's Guide, and How to Write Kids' Mysteries: A Guide for Teen and Adult Writers. In 2004, she co-authored Persistence is Power! A Real-World Guide for the Newly Disabled Employee with Carol J. Amato. Jeanne's topic will be: "Writing Kids' Mysteries: You Can Do It!"
  
  
• Sue McCullough
  Author of Be Your Passion Guide to Life and Career Success, Sue McCullough of Irvine, is a life and career coach and seminar leader. In her "Find Your Passion" exercise, she'll help you visualize your life's passion and begin an action plan for making your passion part of your career and life experience.
  
  
• Peggi Ridgway
  The author of Successful Website Marketing, Peggi is a web site coach and the author of many non-fiction magazine articles, books, newsletters and web pages. She'll share tips to help you "optimize your website" to attract search engines and make your site both user-friendly and search-engine ready.
  

Businesses are Super Heroes for Summer Reading Programs

The Buena Park Library District’s Annual Summer Reading Program ends Saturday, August 27th, 2005 and with it its two clubs will also close - "Super Readers = Super Heroes" for children ages 2-12 and the teen’s "Unleash Your Power / Read." The last day of reading program festivities will be from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. outside the Library and will include a variety of games and events to celebrate another successful summer reading program year (chalkdrawing, cakewalks, ring and beanbag tosses, faces painting, etc.) and children who participated in the reading program can earn other incentive prizes just by showing up. Children and teens will also be able to turn in a completed program opportunity ticket for next week’s selection of Knott’s Berry Farm Theme Park passes. We will also be sharing a new friend with our community – the La Palma Intercommunity Hospital … so stop by their table to say hello and see what they can do for you.

Both summer reading clubs were generously sponsored by the Volunteer Guild of the Buena Park Library. The Volunteer Guild raised the monies needed to sponsor most of this summer’s special events, and funded all the printing and the incentive prizes for the children and teens through rapid book and membership sales. Many thanks to the hard working Guild volunteers!

In addition, the Buena Park Library thanks this year's other Summer Reading Program sponsors. First, a big thanks to the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System for developing and printing the decorative bags, book logs, bookmarks and posters used to celebrate both the children’s and teens programs.

Second, the Library also thanks the following over 30 local business “heroes” who not only bountifully supported the teens and children of Buena Park, but helped make this summer reading program one of the best ever:

Albertson’s (La Palma & Knott)
Angels’ Baseball
Aquarium of the Pacific
Baja Fresh
Boomers Fun Centers
Bowers Museum
Build-a-Bear Workshops
Care Ambulance Services, Inc.
Centennial Heritage Museum
Children’s Museum of La Habra
Claim Jumper Restaurant
Cold Stone Creamery
Dairy Queen of Cypress
Friends of the Santa Ana Zoo
Golf-N-Stuff
Golf-N-Stuff Family Fun Centers
Golfland Entertainment
Hof’s Hut Restaurant
HomeTown Buffet
In-&-Out Burger
Irvine Lanes
Katella Deli
Knott’s Berry Farm
Krikorian Premiere Theatres
Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts
Legoland
McDonald’s
Pat and Oscar’s
Power Toyota of Buena Park
Dennis Salts Family of Buena Park
See’s Candies
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Subway
Target Stores
Universal Studios
Vent-A-Hood (VAH Marketing) & Pacific
Sales Home Furnishing)
Yamaha Cares (Yamaha Corporation of
America)


And finally, a big thank you for the press coverage to: The Buena Park Independent, the Los Angeles Times, Orange County edition and the Orange County Register and its Special Section: Westside Weekly.

“We are very proud of our community’s corporate/library partnerships that have continually supported our summer reading programs since 1999, and our Summer Reading Program couldn't be done without the financial assistance of all our library supporters who contributed to this annual worthy cause,” says Ms. Kathleen Wade, Public Services Manager. “We don’t know what we would have done without you – once again, you all helped make this summer very special.”

For more information about sponsoring a library reading program, the fall storytime schedule or for more details of this most recent Summer Reading Program, contact Mary Ivelia or Phyllis Nisle in the Children’s Department at 714-826-4100 ext. 126. You can also visit our web site at www.buenapark.lib.ca.us.

Vendor Fair "On the Green" -- Saturday, Aug 27th

The Volunteer Guild Bookstore and SLS Creative Business Solutions are co-sponsoring another vendor fair at the Buena Park Library. This one will be outside on the grass at the “Wrap Event for Summer Reading” on Saturday, August 27th, 2005 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Volunteer Guild in their fundraising efforts to benefit the Library’s public programming and service needs.

Sales representatives and independent consultants for vendors Avon™, Becky and Betty, Celebrations by Lillian Vernon™, Cookie Lee Jewelry(R), Luxe & Co., Mary Kay(R) Cosmetics, Pampered Chef, Smith Chiropractic, Tastefully Simple and Tupperware(R) and will be on hand to demonstrate their wares for early gift, graduation and holiday shopping. There will be free opportunity drawings available to those who attend, as well as gift certificates and take-away items. Bring a friend!

SLS Creative Business Solutions has organized this event in support of the Volunteer Guild.

For more information about this event and other Guild Bookstore activities, please call 714-826-4100 x123.

Smooth Jazz at the Library -- Wednesday, August 24th

Join the Buena Park Library District on Wednesday, August 24th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library’s downstairs auditorium, located at 7150 La Palma Ave., as it welcomes Brother Yusef as he “Sings the Blues” and plays some smooth guitar jazz to music lovers of all ages. This free program is sponsored by Yamaha Cares, a special organization within Buena Park’s Yamaha Corporation of America and is for the young and the forever young of Buena Park. It is another of the Library’s special summer program celebrating our local heroes, Super Heroes = Super Readers and Unleash Your Power/Read reading club themes for children aged 2-12 and teens aged 13-17 respectively. Seating is limited, so come early for the best seat in the house.

For more information, please contact the Children's Department at (714) 826-4100 x126 or visit the Children's Area or Teen Area for a complete schedule of summer events and list of program sponsors.

Bugs Galore with Dr. Sue -- Monday, August 22nd at 7:00 p.m.

Join the Buena Park Library District on Monday, August 22nd, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library’s downstairs auditorium, located at 7150 La Palma Ave., as it welcomes Sue Van Vorhis Key, Ph.D. -- entomologist and educator whose motto is "bugging students to learn" -- and her Dr. Sue’s Traveling Insect & Arthropod Zoo. Dr. Sue uses “live animals, accurate models, artifacts and puppets to create a lasting understanding and impression of the diversity and design of nature's many-legged creatures.”

This free program is sponsored by Power Toyota of Buena Park and is for the young and the forever young of Buena Park. It is another of the Library’s special summer program celebrating our local heroes, Super Heroes = Super Readers and Unleash Your Power/Read reading club themes for children aged 2-12 and teens aged 13-17 respectively. Seating is limited, so come early for the best seat in the house.

For more information, please contact the Children's Department at (714) 826-4100 x126 or visit the Children's Area or Teen Area for a complete schedule of summer events and list of program sponsors.

Puppets Galore! -- Monday, August 15th

The Buena Park Library District presents Richard Woloski’s Puppet Show on Monday, August 15th, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library’s downstairs auditorium, located at 7150 La Palma Avenue, Buena Park, California.

This is a free program supporting our Super Readers are Super Heroes theme for the Summer Reading Program, and is sponsored by the Volunteer Guild of the Buena Park Library. The public is invited to attend. No reservations necessary, however space is limited. For more information, please call Mary at the Children’s Desk at 714-826-4100, extension 126.

Community News -- Free Medical Testing at the BUENA PARK SENIOR CENTER

Super Senior Saturday, the greatest Senior Resource Fair in Orange County, will be held on August 20, 2005 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Buena Park Senior Center. Free medical opportunities will be available - Carotid Artery and Hemoglobin testing (no fasting required), and Dermascan Face Cancer screening.

Get your blood Pressure and hearing checked and the famous pharmacist, Dr. Bill Liu will talk about your medicines (bring all that you take) and Podiatrist, Dr. Vanessa will check your feet. WalMart will be talking to you about prescription glasses.

Super Senior Saturday "Western Roundup" will provide food, entertainment, and free opportunity drawings for all participants over 55 years of age. Exhibitors will be health professionals, housing providers, health maintenance organizations, financial planners, home health agencies, elder law attorneys, senior publications, hospice providers, and various other businesses and service organizations. There will provide free samples, discounts, and individual drawings for prizes.

The Buena Park Senior Center is located at the Ehlers Community Recreation Center on 8150 Knott Avenue. For additional information call (714) 236-3870.

Magic Performance -- Monday, August 8th at 7:00 p.m.

Join the Buena Park Library District on Monday, August 8th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library’s downstairs auditorium, located at 7150 La Palma Ave., as it welcomes the multi-talented magician and comedic showman Abbit the Grea … er, Average. Magician Abbit recently starred at an invitation-only After Hours Harry Potter Birthday celebration at the Library, where he entertained 119 excited “Muggle-born” invitees, many who later raved about the party and the magic show.

This free program is for the young and the forever young of Buena Park. It is another of the Library’s special summer program celebrating our local heroes, Super Heroes = Super Readers and Unleash Your Power/Read reading club themes for children aged 2-12 and teens aged 13-17 respectively. Seating is limited, so come early for the best seat in the house.

For more information, please see our web page or contact the Children's Department at (714) 826-4100 x126 or visit the Children's Area or Teen Area for a complete schedule of summer events and list of program sponsors.