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Library News and Happenings

Nobel Peace Prize Winner to Speak at CWU

Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner will be speaking on "Women, Environment and the Politics of Empowerment"

Monday, April 28, 2008, at 4 p.m. in the Central Washington University Student Union Ballroom.

Friday Art Walk Russell Connell Photo Exhibit Hal Holmes Lobby

Come enjoy early photos of Cle Elum and upper Kittitas County from the early 1900's

Classics in Ellensburg

Free lunch time concerts for all ages. (12:05pm - 12:50pm)
May 2nd at Hal Holmes (301 N. Ruby) Beethoven in Ellensburg

For more information call 963-1240

    Tulip's Book Barn Book Sale (audio and videos too)

The Friends of the Library's book, video and audio sale is held twice each month, first and third Saturdays 1:15-4pm, in the Hal Holmes Community Center's basement. This next sales will be May 3rd and May 17th.

Brown Bag Business Basics 

Presented by the Ellensburg Downtown Association and co-sponsored by the Ellensburg Public Library. The Brown Bag Business Basics series takes place during the lunch hour (Noon to 1 p.m.) on the third Thursday of each month at the Hal Holmes Community Center, 209 N Ruby Street.  The series is free to the public. The next session will be May 15th and will be discussing, The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation by Frans Johansen. Johansson argues that innovations occur when people see beyond their expertise and approach situations actively, with an eye toward putting available materials together in new combinations.
Click here for the complete schedule. Brown Bag Business Basics.  

Contra Dances - Hal Holmes   

Come Contra dance at the Hal Holmes Community Center the first Saturday of every month, 7:30-10:30. Entry is free for all; bring the family and learn to contra!!
For more information call 925-6745 or go to www.geocities.com/ebgcontra 

  Conversation Club "English y Español"
Come practice your Spanish or English and make new friends.
Conversation Club will be the second and fourth Monday of the month at 6:30 in the Hal Holmes' Kittitas Room.

         Kittitas County City Libraries Initiate Reciprocal Borrowing  

Ellensburg Public Library Cards for Residents of Cle Elum, Roslyn and Kittitas. This means that anyone who has a library card in good standing at their home library, the one owned and operated by the city in which he or she resides, may get a library card at any of the other public libraries in the county at no charge. 
For more information contact your local city library or call 962-7110.