Archive for October, 2006

Book Study Group

Thursday 19 October: Day of the Dead by Marshall Brement. A story set in Saigon in the 60s, as the US involvement there gets stickier and stickier. Brement’s protagonist is a junior embassy staffer, and we get an inside view of a crime, or a set of crimes, from the perspective of the administration that commits them.

Does realpolitik cancel out the ordinary definitions of crime? Who is guilty if nobody is responsible? If events simply take their course, and people “are murdered” does the passive voice absolve the non-actor?

Western Heritage Center

If you have any historical information, or want to learn something about the geographic area within the Patagonia, Santa Rita and Huachuca Mountains stop by our booth.

Saturday and Sunday: October 14th and 15th

During the Patagonia Fall Festival.

Friends of the Library Book Sale

Stop by the Friends of the Library Book Sale, outside near the depot, during the Patagonia Fall Festival.

Saturday and Sunday: October 14th and 15th.

Something for everyone……….

Western Heritage Center

If you have any historical information, or want to learn something about the geographic area within the Patagonia, Santa Rita and Huachuca Mountains stop by our booth.

Saturday and Sunday: October 14th and 15th.

During the Patagonia Fall Festival.

Friends of the Library Book Sale

Stop by the Friends of the Library Book Sale, outside near the depot, during the Patagonia Fall Festival.

Saturday and Sunday: October 14th and 15th.

Something for everyone……….

Community Gathering @ Town Hall: Affordable Housing

COMMUNITY GATHERING AT TOWN HALL

Sponsored by Patagonia Affordable Community Corporation and Mark Perlmutter. Co-sponsored by the Town of Patagonia and

Community Housing of Patagonia (CHOP)

 

                             TOPIC:  SUBSIDIZED HOME LOANS and       SWEAT EQUITY for SANTA CRUZ RESIDENTS

 

   GOAL: AFFORDABLE HOUSING

 

TWO MEETINGS OFFERED: October 11, Wednesday 5 P.M. - 6 P.M.

                                       November 15, Wednesday 5 P.M. - 6 P.M.

 

These two meetings will focus on subsidy based loans available through USDA Rural Development (281-0221 ext. 100) and Chicanos Por La Causa (281-9570)

 

 

Nogales bilingual program leader, Gabriela Gorman, from USDA Rural Development, will explain:

  1. How these funds are available and applied for
  2. What the eligibility requirements are
  3. Necessary procedures for credit acceptance, including re-establishing credit

 

Nogales bilingual program leader, Bertha Ojeda, from Chicanos Por La Causa, will explain:

  1. What formula is used to determine work hours required by families to subsidize down-payment costs
  2. How building your own home is managed and supervised
  3. What skills are developed while building your own home

 

These two programs have assisted 200 families in achieving affordable housing in the Rio Rico and Nogales areas.

 

Both meetings will be limited to 1 hour. Please be ready on time to receive our guest speakers. Bilingual child care will be available, so come extra early if you need child care.

 

We appreciate all efforts to come to this meeting, after work and before dinner. Healthy snacks will be provided.

Friends of the Library Fundraising Event with Author Nancy Turner

Nancy Turner, author of These is My Words and Sarah’s Quilt will be our guest for the “Dinner on the Grounds.” Starting at 5 pm, under the big mesquite outside of Patagonia Library, we’ll serve a chuckwagon dinner, followed by homemade pie and coffee, and an interview and reading with this popular author. Turner’s books are set in southeastern Arizona, and based on her own family’s history. Tickets are $40.00 and benifit our general fund.

Contact Gail Eifrig 520 455-0474 or eifrig@dakotacom.net

Jack Walsh at 520 397-9341

Patagonia Library 520 394-2010 or info@patagoniapublicllibrary.org