FOOD AND FILM FESTIVAL
sponsored by Evergreen Institute for Wellness

Saturday, April 28. 2012
10am – 3:00 pm
Kennett High School, 409 Eagles Way (off of Eastman Rd.)

This free event offers fun family activities that highlight connections between what we eat and how we feel. Exhibits and demonstrations promoting nutritional awareness and healthy eating habits will continue throughout the day. In partnership with Green Mountain Conservation Group, there will be a special showing of the film “Food, Inc.”

“We want to encourage a greater understanding of the relationship between our diet and our health, between what we put on our plates and the health of our planet,” said Evergreen’s event coordinator Kat Alden. “Our festival will be a great place to learn more about the steps we can take to improve our nutrition and our environmental impact. “

Activities for children include: planting a seed, art for health, edible crafts, and gluten free snacks and more!

A sampling of demonstrations & exhibitors: making keifer, community supported agriculture, composting household scraps, eating healthy on a budget, area farmers markets, gluten free cooking, GALA, sprouting seeds, and much more!

Movie Showtimes (yes – they’re all FREE)
10:00 am Food Inc
12:00 pm Sustainable Table
3:00 pm Fresh
— Parental discretion advised – the films are not appropriate for young children.

For more information, visit evergreenforwellness.com or email evergreenforwellness@gmail.com

To Support the Brownfield Public Library

MAY 2012

Get sponsors to pledge per book you read in May.

Then read as many books as you can, the more you read, the more money you raise for the Library.

3 age groups: under 12, 12 – 18, over 18

PRIZES will be awarded to the reader in each age group that raises the most money, including-

·      A gift certificate to Oxford House Inn

·      3 gift certificates to Settler’s Green

·      An Amazon book gift card

SO READ, READ, READ!!!

Sponsor sheets available at the Library.

For more information call 935-3003

Open Link

Call: 947-8336

or

http://www.bpl.lib.me.us/

The library offers free online connections to full text magazine, encyclopedia and  newspaper articles.

Find articles on just about any subject in general interest magazines, academic journals, newspapers or specialized sources like Health Source: Consumer Edition or Contemporary Literary Criticism and more….

Literary Criticism (find in Marvel)

Access Novelist, Scribner Writers, Twayne’s Author Series, the Literature Resource Series and more.

Newspapers in the Proquest Database (find in MARVEL) Access newspaper articles in the Bangor Daily News (full text 1992-current), the New York Times (full text 1999-current), and many other newspapers around the country.
JSTOR – The Scholarly Journal Archive

Use this database to find scholarly articles from back issues of journals like The American Historical Review, American Mathematical Monthly and many others. This database can be accessed within the Bangor Public Library network or from outside the library system (off-site). Off-site users must provide their last name and URSUS library barcode for authentication purposes only.

JSTOR                 

Gale Reference Center Gold
Use this database to find articles from business journals, general interest magazines (past 4 yrs.) and the Knight-Ridder Tribune newspaper (past 24 months), as well as general reference sources.
Check with the Reference Dept. to obtain passwords for home use for both these databases. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/bang45018

Biography Resource Center and Marquis Who’s Who

Integrates biographies of past and present noteworthy people with full text magazine articles, images, and website links.

Maps101.com

Maps101 is a great source for teaching geography and history. Besides online atlases it also includes interactive maps and animated maps of major historical trends. It also has zoomable copies of the National Geographic Magazine maps. There are lesson plans, geography puzzles and other learning resources. Suitable for grades K – 12. We are working on a dedicated link, until then contact Reference for the id/password

Browse hundreds of  audiobooks!

Check out and download best-selling and classic titles to your PC, then transfer to a portable device or burn many titles to CD.

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