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January 2020 Newsletter

Author Reading with Mia Heavener
In 1939, everything changes for Anne Girl when outsider John Nelson grounds his sailboat on the shores, into Anne Girl’s skiff, and into her life during a rare storm in the Alaskan fishing village of Nushagak. When Anne Girl and her mother, Marulia, find their skiff flattened by John’s boat, Anne Girl decides she both hates and wants him. Thus begins a generational saga of strong, stubborn Yup’ik women living in a village that has been divided between the new and the old, the bluff side and the missionary side, the cannery side and the subsistence side
 
Mia Heavener will give a reading of her new novel Under Nushagak Bluff on Saturday, Jan. 25, 6:00 pm at Homer Public Library. Mia Heavener is of Norwegian, Polish, and Yup'ik heritage. Her experience in rural Alaska is both personal and professional. After graduating from MIT with a degree in civil  engineering, Mia returned home to design water and wastewater systems in Alaskan Native villages.  During the summers, she commercial fishes with her family in Bristol Bay. She believes that everyone should have a good whiff of the tundra at least once in their life, if not twice. She has an MFA from Colorado State University. Her fiction has appeared in Cortland Review and Willow Springs.
This winter the library is hosting a new type of evening program for young children and their families. During the AHA! Club, a 6-week series, families will explore computational thinking, a creative way of thinking that enables children to identify and systematically solve problems in a way that could also carried out by a computer. Computational thinking shares multiple skills with early literacy and early math.

The series will include a light dinner, screenings of a new show about computational thinking created for preschoolers by WGBH (producers of Molly of Denali), building, making and tinkering activities, a shared story, and a take home activity.

Materials are provided and dinners will be donated by local restaurants: The Alibi, The Bagel Shop, Cosmic Kitchen, and Fat Olive’s. (If your restaurant would like to contribute, please contact Claudia Haines at 435-3176 for more information.)

Tuesdays, Jan.9-Feb. 13, 5:30-7:00 pm. Online registration is necessary.
https://www.cityofhomer-ak.gov/library
 
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies and Friends of the Homer Library will join together to participate in NOAA Planet Stewards Book Club on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 4:00 pm. The selection is Plastic Ocean by Captain Charles Moore about his research expeditions to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and his subsequent advocacy work to educate people on the dangers of plastics .

No pre-registration necessary. This is a nationwide book club, and we will call in to NOAA to participate. 

 
For more information, checkout NOAA’s web page:
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/planet-stewards/upcoming.html
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