Posted by Beth on Friday, Jan 3, 2014
To most people, winter means ice and snow. But for some of us - the ones with mud in our veins - winter is time to start thinking, dreaming and planning for our gardens. And what better way to get back in the mood to garden then by getting together with 150+ other gardeners to talk gardening!
For over 20 years, Project GREEN and ICPL have joined together to bring the Second Sunday Garden Forums to the gardeners in our area. The 2014 forums will take place in January, February and March, and the guest speakers should be a lot of fun.
January 12th, Iowa City's own recycling coordinator, Jennifer Jordan, will present “Resources for Gardeners at the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center” giving us the the inside scoop on the things available at the Iowa City Landfill and East Side Recycling Center.
On February 9, Polk County Master Gardener Rita Minard will present “Social Climbers … Clematis for All Occasions." Rita grows more than 100 clematis in her own gardens. She will offer suggestions on planting, pruning, displaying and photographing different varieties of clematis.
March 9th, former garden writer and editor at Better Homes and Gardens Magazine Susan Appleget Hurst will present “Dream Garden Design” in which she’ll share the lessons she has learned about gardens and garden design.
All programs will begin at 2:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of the month in ICPL Meeting Room A, and will be broadcast live on The Library Channel, Iowa City Cable Channel 10.
About the Author
Title: Program Librarian
Where you'll see me in the library: I work at the Information Desk, the Help Desk and in the Digital Media Lab during Drop-in Tech Help. I teach some of the Genealogy workshops and I'll be at most of the Library Events & Programs for adults too, so I'm pretty much everywhere.
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This first book in what I hope is a very long series of crime/detective fiction by author Joe Ide. I started with the print copy and was grabbed quickly by the story. However there is a lot of East LA dialect in this book that slowed me down, so I checked out a copy of the e-aduio and I'm so glad I did. Actor Sullivan Jones brought the characters to life in ways my imagination couldn't. After listening to a few chapters the characters are firmly in my brain and I hear their voices when I read the text. Isaiah Quintabe (IQ) is my new favorite private investigator. He sees things other people miss. Things that aren't where they're supposed to be, or shouldn't be where they are, or things that just don't make sense. Author Joe Ide masterfully weaves together two stories - Isaiah's own rough teenage years and the current case he's been hired to solve - to introduce us to a great new character in detective fiction. The second book in the series is "Righteous" and the third "Wrecked" is due out in October 2018. -Beth