Bee Local @ Fredricksen:
A Honey & Local Foods Festival!
Bee Local @ Fredricksen is the Library’s first annual honey and local foods festival. Planned for September 17, from 1-5PM, the Library hopes to raise awareness of the importance of bees to our community and environment, the benefits of beekeeping and backyard gardening, and the critical role both play in our local agriculture and food industries. The Festival will be an amazing day full of fun, with opportunities for all family members to shop, learn, explore and more! Click the links below for more details!

Experience the regional premiere of Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? on Friday, September 16 at 7PM. See the movie trailer HERE

Shop at The Bee Local Farmers' Market for produce, meat, cheese, honey and more with vendors Pretty Meadow Farm, Peck's Bee Supplies, Short & Sweet, Yeehaw Farm, Keswick Creamery, Brushwood Farm, Pepperelly, Paulus Farm Market, Half Acre Farm, Main Line Honey, Jujo Acres and The Green Room.

Explore local resources and meet representatives from local nonprofits, membership organizations, beekeepers, and CSAs including South Central PA Buy Fresh Buy Local, Cumberland County Master Gardeners, Capital Area Beekeepers, PA Association for Sustainable Agriculture, PA Preferred, and more!

Learn about beekeeping, community supported agriculture and gardening for pollinators with festival programs on Beginning Beekeeping at 1:30 pm, The ABCs of CSAs at 2:30 pm, and Gardening for Native Pollinators at 3:30 pm.

Enjoy children's activities, including the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau's Mobile Ag Ed Classroom, coloring contests, crafts and more! The Mobile Ag Ed Classroom's visit to Fredricksen was made possible by The Dietrich Family in celebration of Ashley's life.

Celebrate the Library the conclusion of our green energy construction made possible by grants and a generous bequest from Beatrice Kelley. Read More below

A complete listing of events, Farmers' Market vendors and products, and more will be available HERE in the coming weeks. Like Bee Local on Facebook!

Support Fredricksen Library & Local Foods!
Get ready for Bee Local @ Fredricksen Library, our first annual Honey & Local Foods Festival on September 17, 2011, by sporting a custom-designed tshirt! To celebrate the event, the Library has designed bee-utiful Bee Local tshirts. Proceeds from the sale of the tshirts will go to support the Festival, which promotes honey & local foods producers in our community. Tshirts are 100% white cotton featuring our Bee Local sunflower logo. Available in various sizes, limited quantities for $12.00 each at the Reference desk.

Green Energy Initiatives @ Fredricksen
Bonnie Goble, Director
A festival to celebrate all things green and local would not be complete without a celebration of the successful end of our green energy grants here at Fredricksen.

Over the course of the past two years, the library has been the grateful recipient of over $300,000 in Federal stimulus funds. With that money, which funded a solar installation (Envinity, Inc.), new equipment (Spangler & Boyer), new controls (Conexus) and cutting edge engineering (Paragon). In addition to the stimulus funds, the library was able to “match” for the grants with a generous contribution from Beatrice Kelley, who remembered the library in her will. Miss Kelley’s contribution has enabled the library to reduce its energy costs by 30%. By so doing, she ensured that library operations, not utility bills, will be the focus for the next twenty years.

Stop into the mechanical room (lower level) to view our shiny new heat wheel, gleaming duct work and cutting edge solar. At Bee Local, we’ll be running tours of the new equipment. We’ve learned a lot, and it’s all helped to carry the library forward. Come and see!

	September Adult Events The Oregon Trail Saturday, September 3 at 1:30 pm - Join us for the first of a 3-part series on the Oregon Trail. What was the Oregon Trail? What motivated the western migration to the Oregon territory in the mid 1800's? What was the route? Pete Sanden will give you a behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties faced by families as they packed off through the unexplored Indian plains in search of a new beginning. No registration necessary for all sessions. The Oregon Trail: The Women's Diaries - Saturday, September 10 at 1:30 pm What a miserable time for women on the Oregon Trail! The burdens put upon the women were heavy while lacking personal privacy and female companionship. The women often welcomed visits with Indians while the men feared them. Based upon collected diaries of several women on the Oregon Trail, Pete Sanden will talk with , you about their tragedy and heartbreak. The Oregon Trail & Beyond: Homesteaders on the Great Plains - Saturday, September 24 at 1:30 pm Why were Americans so eager to settle the "Great American Desert"? Their hopes and dreams often led them to struggles and meager triumphs. How does one "break" those tough sods? Where does one get materials and firewood? Just how much can one live without? How do the newly established railroads influence their dreams? Should they fear the Indians? So many questions! Come and learn some of the answers with Pete Sanden.
	Holiday Closings - Sunday, September 4 & Monday, September 5 – CLOSED for the Labor Day Holiday Independent Film Fridays: Big Night - Friday, September 9 at 7 pm Twisted Stitchers - Monday, September 12 at 6:30 pm – Register ONLINE Fredricksen Reads - March by Geraldine Brooks - Thursday, September 15 at 7 pm – REGISTER ONLINE Independent Film Friday: Queen of the Sun - Friday, September 16 at 7 pm Bee Local @ Fredricksen Library! Honey & Local Foods Festival - Saturday, Sept. 17 from 1 pm to 5 pm Natalie D. Craumer Writers Workshop: Take Your Fiction to the Next Level! - 6 Mondays: Sept 19, 26, Oct 3, 10, 17, and 24, from 6:45 to 8:45 pm – SORRY - THIS PROGRAM IS FULL The Horseshoe Curve: Sabotage and Subversion in the Railroad City - Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 7 pm Bus Trip to the National Book Festival in D.C. -, Saturday, September 24 at 7 am - REGISTER ONLINE From Bach 2 Rock: Acoustic to Electric Violin - Sunday, September 25 at 2 pm Friends of Fredricksen Library Book & Media Sale - Thursday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, October 2 Fredricksen Library Tours - Every Second Thursday - 7 pm to 8 pm – Register by noon Thursdays Blood Pressure Screenings - Thursdays from 9:15 am to 1 pm Register in September for these upcoming Adult programs: Fredricksen Reads - For Cause and Comrades by James McPherson - Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 pm - REGISTER ONLINE Sept. 1 Fredricksen Reads - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Thursday, Nov. 17 - REGISTER ONLINE Sept. 1 All Adult Events, More Information & Registration Dates
	September Children's Events Mission Transition 2011/2012: Preparing for Kindergarten One Monday a month at 6:30 pm – Sept. through May Help your little one prepare for a lifetime of learning by participating in this innovative program developed by our own Pollock Children’s Library staff. Children from Hoover, West Creek Hills, East Pennsboro, Shaull, Hampden, Sporting Hill, Washington Heights, Lower Allen and Highland Elementaries are welcome. Future students entering kindergarten in 2012 will do Kindergarten readiness activities, hear stories, have parachute fun, and work with colors, alphabet, sorting, and rhyming words. Kids may meet other future students and make early friendships! Sessions will be on Mon., but moved to Wed. on holiday weeks. Registration starts Aug. 15, with the first session starting September 7. Fall Story times 6-week sessions - September 19 through October 28 – Register Sept. 6 for Just Baby & Me and Sept. 7 for Twos, Threes and Picture Book Time. Youth Chess Night - Friday, September 2 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Drop-In Story Time - Thursday, September 8 & 22 at 7 pm Jump Bunch Demo! - Wednesday, September 14 at 10 & 10:45 am – Register Aug. 31 READ to Dogs - Thursday, September 15 from 6:30 to 7:45 pm – Register Sept. 1 Fall American Girl Doll Book Club for 1st & 2nd graders - Tuesdays, Sept. 20, Oct. 25 & Nov. 29 from 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm – Register Sept. 8 Fall American Girl Doll Book Club for 3rd & 4th graders - Wednesdays, Sept. 21, Oct. 26 & Nov. 30 from 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm – Register Sept. 8 Children’s Bingo Night - Friday, September 23 from 7 to 8 pm Register in September for these October Children’s programs: Children’s Creative Writing Workshop - Saturday, October 8, 2 pm & 3:30 pm – Register Sept. 26 READ to Dogs - Thursday, October 20 from 6:30 to 7:45 pm – Register Sept. 29 All Children's Events, More Information & Registration Dates
	September Teen Events Teen Craft: Book Purses Sunday, September 11 at 2 pm SORRY - THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. You will WOW your friends with the purse you made from a BOOK! Instructors will guide you through the process of making this hip craft project. Program fee covers half the material cost for the project. Registration required starting August 20 with a $5 fee. Registration fee may be paid at the reference desk prior to event or on the day of the event. For teens in grades 6 – 12. WAITING LIST. Pizza and a Movie – I Am Number 4 Sunday, September 18 at 2 pm Join us for an afternoon movie and pizza at the library! We will be showing the movie I Am Number 4, a Touchstone Pictures/Dreamworks production. This movie is PG-13. Extraordinary teen John Smith (Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters life-changing events-his first love (Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny. REGISTER ONLINE SEPTEMBER 1 All Teen Events, More Information & Registration Dates Check out the Teen Blogsite here for photos, videos and more! Sign up HERE to receive the Teen E-News!


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