Year: 2013

Hope to see you all on Sunday, October 6, 2013 for the 1st ever Deutschenstadt Tag!  (Germantown Day)  Germantown is 180 years old and we are celebrating on Munster St. downtown from 11am to 4pm.  This event is sponsored by the Germantown Historical Society and will include German food and music, tapping the Golden Keg, old time games, horse and buggy rides plus much more.  Guest speaker will be Red Schoendienst.  See the flyer for more details, or visit us on facebook at Deutschenstadt Tag.

Spassfest flyer

Did you know that the library purchases new adult, young adult, children’s books, and audio books every month?  In addition, we lease new ebooks monthly and purchase DVDs and Blu-ray movies as our budget allows.  We want to provide what you want.  And don’t forget it’s your tax dollars that pay for library materials.  So please let us know what you like or don’t like.  Want to see more mysteries? cookbooks? a different magazine? new favorite author? less vampires? Whatever your preference, just let us know.  We have a suggestion box in the library, you can call us at 523-4820 or send an email to gma@gtownlibrary.org.  We’d love to hear from you.  After all, you paid for it!

The library will be closed Monday, Sept. 2., so that our employees may enjoy the Labor Day holiday.  Hope you can also enjoy the day off.  See you again beginning Sept. 3!

Today a truly great and generous man, Paul “Trotter” Bergmann was laid to rest.  Without him and his 2 older brothers, Ray and Jack, we probably wouldn’t even have a library in Germantown.  When Paul’s brother Jack died he left behind a large sum of money to be used to build a library.  However, that money was to be held until Paul died so that he could use it as needed for medical expenses.  But Paul, even though he  had already had 2 strokes and wasn’t in the best of health, had other ideas.  He wanted to see the new library, so he signed over his rights to 3/4 of the trust and this library was built and opened in 1995…18 years ago!  Just think of all the people who have benefited from his generosity over the course of those 18 years.  Paul and his wife Rena were truly great friends to our library and they will be sorely missed.

RIP Paul “Trotter” Bergmann       Died August 15, 2013

Will you have children in school this year?  Be sure to come in and get them registered for a library card.  Every class, from Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade, at Germantown Elementary visits the library on a regularly scheduled basis and the students check out books.  Be sure your child is ready for that 1st visit with his or her own library card.

Just wanted to remind everyone that the library will be CLOSED Tuesday, July 30, for the annual St. Boniface Church picnic.  You may return items in the drop box and our parking lot will be available that day for picnic-goers.  See you there!

On Saturday, we held our last event of the summer reading program.  Dangerous Dan showed the kids lots of experiments using “Fire, Wind and Ice!”  They learned everything from how to make balls float in the air to how to change a liquid into nearly every color of the rainbow, using acids and bases.  Everyone’s favorite was making loads of bubbles with dry ice.  Dangerous Dan came to us from Mad Science of St. Louis.

Although this was the last program of the summer, if you haven’t completed your passport yet, keep reading.  You have until the end of July to turn it in for the prizes you’ve earned.

Hey all you young summer readers!  Don’t forget our wrap up party will be next Saturday, July 20 at 11am.  It’ll feature “Adventures in Fire and Ice” with Mad Science of St. Louis.  Of course, there will be snacks and a prize for all who attend.  You might even win Cardinals baseball tickets.  Hope to see you then and keep reading!

The library will be closed Thursday, July 4 to celebrate Independence Day.  Please stay safe, display our flag proudly, enjoy our freedoms responsibly and come visit us during our regular hours the rest of the week.

There were balloons everywhere as we kicked off Summer Reading 2013, “Have Book-Will Travel!”  Over 30 kids have signed up so far to travel around the world with books.  As they read, they bring in their passports to be stamped and can move their own little hot air balloon from continent to continent around the circulation desk.  On June 15, Frazzle the Clown was here to juggle, tell jokes, ride his unicycle and treat each child present to their own balloon animal.  There’s still time to sign up, so come in and take an imaginary trip with us in our hot air balloon, as we go around the world with books.