Community Services

 Children in 3rd and 4th grades are invited to the New Castle Branch Library on March 8th from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. to learn about your incredible icky insides with Mr. Paul Stanley. We will do a variety of experiments that have to with the 5 senses and the organs in your body. Supplies and snacks will be provided. This class is limited to 25 children, and preregistration is required to attend this event. Please call 984-2346 or go to www.gcpld.org to preregister.

 Children in kindergarten through 2nd grade are invited to the New Castle Branch Library on Friday, March 8 from 12 to 2 p.m. to learn about your incredible icky insides with Mr. Paul Stanley. We will do a variety of experiments that have to with the 5 senses and the organs in your body. Supplies and snacks will be provided. This class is limited to 25 children, and preregistration is required to attend this event. Please call 984-2346 or go to www.gcpld.org to preregister.

 All future pilots in the 3rd and 4th grade please report to home base at the New Castle Branch Library on Friday, March 1 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to learn about air and flight with Mr. Paul Stanley. Come learn how airplanes, helicopters and hot air balloons travel through the air. We will be making stealthy paper airplanes, gravity defying parachutes and helicopter spinners. Supplies and snacks will be provided. This class is limited to 25 children, and preregistration is required to attend this event. Please call 984-2346 or go to www.gcpld.org to preregister.

 All future pilots in kindergarten through 2nd grade please report to home base at the New Castle Branch Library on Friday, March 1 from 12 to 2 p.m. to learn about air and flight with Mr.Paul Stanley. Come learn how airplanes, helicopters and hot air balloons travel through the air. We will be making stealthy paper airplanes, gravity defying parachutes and helicopter spinners. Supplies and snacks will be provided. This class is limited to 25 children, and preregistration is required to attend this event. Please call 984-2346 or go to www.gcpld.org to preregister.

Children in kindergarten through 2nd grade are invited to the Silt Branch Library on Friday, February 22 from 12 to 2 p.m. to come learn about world geography with Miss Zabawa. Students will understand the relationship between their community and the world by producing a hands-on activity that will involve painting, coloring, cutting, gluing and maps!. This class is limited to 25 children, and preregistration is required to attend this event. Please call 876-5500 or go to www.gcpld.org to preregister.

 Garfield County Libraries is pleased to present free swing dance classes throughout February to celebrate The Big Read 2013. Maurine Taufer, Dance Director from the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, has taught, directed, and choreographed for over 22 years. She is excited to bring you the most favorite dance style of the 1930’s. Whether you have two left feet, no dance experience, or just want to have fun and learn something new -- this class is for you! Come to the library to swing, sway and hop with us, and you’ll be kicking up your heals before you know it.

Garfield County Libraries is pleased to present free swing dance classes throughout February to celebrate The Big Read 2013. Maurine Taufer, Dance Director from the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, has taught, directed, and choreographed for over 22 years. She is excited to bring you the most favorite dance style of the 1930’s. Whether you have two left feet, no dance experience, or just want to have fun and learn something new -- this class is for you! Come to the library to swing, sway and hop with us, and you’ll be kicking up your heals before you know it.

 The Parachute Branch Library offers a fun-filled afternoon of history on Saturday, February 23 for The Big Read.

Local singer/songwriter Nate Adams will start at 12:30 p.m. with a 30-minute tribute to Woodie Guthrie. Like Woodie, Adams plays by himself – just his guitar, harmonica, and croonin’. Come listen to Guthrie’s traditional folk and blues songs and hear stories about the "Dust Bowl Troubadour” himself.

 Garfield County Libraries is pleased to present free swing dance classes throughout February to celebrate The Big Read 2013. Maurine Taufer, Dance Director from the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, has taught, directed, and choreographed for over 22 years. She is excited to bring you the most favorite dance style of the 1930’s. Whether you have two left feet, no dance experience, or just want to have fun and learn something new -- this class is for you! Come to the library to swing, sway and hop with us, and you’ll be kicking up your heals before you know it.

 Garfield County Libraries is kicking off The Big Read 2013 with John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" at First Friday in Carbondale at 5:30 p.m. on February 1st.