We just got word that our new library director, Kate Pohjola will be serving as a celebrity chef in the Dave Thomas Celebrity Cookoff benefitting Spaulding for Children, a private non-profit foster care and adoption agency. Join her and watch her cook There is more online here: http://spaulding.org/events/4/2011-dave-thomas-celebrity-coookoff/. There’s a fact sheet here, too: http://spaulding.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DTCC-Fact-Sheet-2011.pdf
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One of our kind residents has just donated dozens of train videos to us and we’re sure that these are something somebody else would desperately love to have. We just don’t know exactly who that is? Do you love trains or know somebody who does? Can you help us find somebody who’d be willing to buy these tapes at an extremely reasonable price? Do let us know at ferndalefriends[dot]org(at)mail{dot}com. Here’s a list of just the tapes in Box 1 (there are many boxes):
| Producer | Title |
| Bly Rail | Railside in Florida |
| Bly Rail | Maine Rails |
| Trains on Location | Canada’s Canyon Conquest |
| Hot Rails | The Great North American Rial Safari |
| Neff Video | Ontario Rail Volume 1 |
| Keith Trains | #60 Tennessee Valley Railroad |
| Keith Trains | #84 CN Algoma Central |
| Pentrex | Mexico Volumes 1, 2, 3 |
| Pentrex | Winchester and Western a Big Little Shortline |
| Pentrex | The Copper Canyon Chihuahua Pacifico |
| Pentrex | Maine |
| Pentrex | Amtrak Auto Train |
| Pentrex | Hot Rails through the Twin Cities |
| Pentrex | Today’s Shortline and Regular Volume 1 |
| Pentrex | Those Incredible ALCOS Volumes 1, 2, 3 |
| Pentrex | British Columbia Railway |
| Pentrex | British Columbia Rail Cab Ride from Sea to Sky |
| Pentrex | California Baldwin Diesels |
| Pentrex | Union Pacific Challenger |
| Pentrex | Conrail Hot Spots West |
| Pentrex | B and O Odyssey Volume 2 |
| Pentrex | McCloud River Railroad the Early Baldwin Diesels |
| Pentrex | SP’s Geeps and Cadillac’s Vintage Workhorses |
| Pentrex | Eastern Quebec’s Ore Line Volumes 1 and 2 |
| Pentrex | Arizona Shortline |
| Pentrex | U-Boat |
| Pentrex | LTV Mining Railroad |
| Pentrex | The Joint Line |
| Pentrex | The NASA Line |
| Pentrex | KCS Across the Meridian Subdivision |
| Pentrex | Missouri Kansas Texas |
The Friends of the Ferndale Library demonstrated on Saturday, August 13, that a love for books, music, arts and culture is not inconsistent with a love of teamwork and sports-related injuries. Not that we won. In fact we lost the first three games and tied the last one (we were actually behind after three innings but the Ferndale Community Foundation allowed us to redeem ourselves in a two-run fourth inning that put us ahead). But we had fun and received all sorts of minor scratches and scrapes that we could use to impress our friends and neighbors with our physical intrepidity. And we raised over a hundred dollars for the Friends of the Library.
Thanks to our players–Kelly and Jeff Farrah, Tim and William McElgunn, Matt Nowaczok, Jim O’Donnell, Kyle Pollett, Joanne Scharich, Kat Diehl, and Melissa Wilson–to our cheering section consisting–sons and daughters of the Deegan-Krause, Farrah, McElgunn, O’Donnell, and Wilson families–and thanks to Joann Wilcock for organizing the whole thing. We look forward to playing again next year.
For those with interest, there are a few online traces of this event:
- Keith Dalton made a nice video: http://www.youtube.com/user/FerndaleMi?feature=mhee
- Ferndale Patch did an excellent story and photo shoot: http://ferndale.patch.com/articles/photo-gallery-ferndale-youth-assistance-team-wins-in-nonprofit-kickball-tournament#photo-7361578
Yes, the oddly textured from grade school is back. And far from the triumphs and humiliations of the playground, it now offers a chance to benefit some of the best causes in Ferndale. We are looking to put together a winning team from among the Friends of the Library. This means not only Friends members but also their family, friends, kickball-skilled acquaintances, and hopefully a few ringers who played in this year’s “World Kickball Championship.”
The procedure is simple: We gather at Martin Road Park at 10am on Saturday August 13 and play a few games for a few hours. Cost is $20 per person, but you get a t-shirt and all the rest of the money goes to the charitable groups we care about (Ferncare, Friends of the Library, the Ferndale Community Foundation, Ferndale Youth Assistance).
If you would like to play (and I hope you do), let me know as soon as possible, and let me know your t-shirt size so we can order the right amounts in advance. It would be best, therefore, to know by Sunday the 7th.
If you want more information, let us know at ferndalefriends.org@gmail.com or take a look here: kickball flyer 2011. Feel free also to forward it to anybody who would be interested. We look forward to playing games with you!
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