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International Games Day @ Your Library JUST 2 DAYS AWAY!

Just another couple days until International Games Day @ Your Library!

Take a look at the map to see the locations of libraries all over the world that will be taking part!

source: IGD@YL
source: IGD@YL

For more information, check out the official home page

SafeTeen

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SafeTeen is a tremendous program that covers a variety of topics including conflict resolution, healthy relationships, bullying, sexual health and more.

Once again we are very pleased to host SafeTeen seminars in the school library.  Grade 10 BOYS will be attending SafeTeen seminars on November 12 and 14. As such, the room will be closed to all drop-in and study block students, as well as to all female staff.

Kristallnacht

For all the amazing accomplishments and advances of humanity, we are still capable of terrible barbarism and unspeakable evil.  One of the most terrible and shameful chapters of our history is marked by the remembrance of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.” These events of November 9 and 10, 1938, in Germany, are seen to be the symbolic start of the Holocaust, the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews (and other groups) by the Nazis.

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From Yad Veshem :

On November 9,  1938, the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews in Germany and  Austria. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish  businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. For the first time, tens of  thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps simply because they were  Jewish.  This event came to be called Kristallnacht (“Night of the  Broken Glass”) for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German  streets. Kristallnacht was an essential turning point in Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews, and a significant event in Holocaust history.
For more about Kristallnacht, click here. For educational resources click here.

Visit the full site of Yad Veshem for more information on the Holocaust. Other online sources include:

Remembrance Day

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Remember, Remembrance Day is not one of the those holidays that is just an excuse for a long weekend. Please take some time over these next few days to reflect on what Remembrance Day is all about. And on Monday, plan to take some time to honour those that have died and those that have served. Whether you attend a ceremony in person, or check out the television coverage of the ceremony in Ottawa, take some time for Remembrance.

King Kong Bundy

source: Juan Torres

Back in the day, when I was a kid in Grade 8, all the boys were fans of pro wrestling.  And as much as we had the good guys to cheer for, it was more about the bad guys to cheer against.  Big John Studd, the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkov, Paul Orndorff, Greg “the Hammer” Valentine– these were some of the bad guys. Then there was King Kong Bundy.  There were plenty of ugly you-know-whats in pro wrestling. Billed at 6 foot 4 and 460 pounds, he had to be the biggest, ugliest so-and-so you loved to hate. Born on this day in 1957 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Chris Pallies grew up to become the world famous King Kong Bundy.

Note: Pro Wrestling was never again as good as it was in the early 80’s.  Did it go downhill that much? Or did we just grow up? I hope it was more of the latter!

King Kong Bundy, Tag Teaming with Big John Studd against Andre the Giant and Hill Billy Jim.
Source: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

Seeing in Technicolour

The first of in what we hope is a series of free lunch time concerts on the new school library stage went today and it was a big success!  Thanks to “Seeing in Technicolour,” a band of Lord Tweedsmuir senior students, who put on a great show.

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A small but enthusiastic crowd of students was on hand to enjoy the music. We hope that word can spread that we can pack in even more people for our next show.

If you are a performer, either in a band or a solo act, we would love to give you the chance to perform on our stage in a future event!

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We Have Games to Borrow

IGD12-logo-medium-300x86Did you know that your school library has games that you can borrow?  Whether you want to come in for a quick game at lunch, or take a game home for the weekend, we have a variety of games to choose from.  Our game titles include:

  • International-Games-Day-2013-PosterMonopoly
  • Chess
  • Scrabble
  • Backgammon
  • Risk
  • Stratego
  • Othello
  • Clue
  • Cribbage
  • Dungeons and Dragons
  • Anomia
  • Scattergories
  • Blokus
  • Carcassonne
  • Diplomacy

Want to see a new game in here? Let us know.  We continue to add more games to our collection!

Take Your Kids to Work Day

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Thanks to all the kids who came to work in the library on “Take Your Kids to Work Day.” While most of them will spend the rest of their lives remembering this great day, and will yearn for another chance, sadly most of them will never work in a library again. Cherish the memories!

One of these kids belongs to the Teacher Librarian. The others just wanted to be here because whatever their parents do clearly pales in comparison to the mighty work of the Teacher Librarian! Not to mention the chance to spend a day with Buck the Library Duck.

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The happy news is that students at LTS can join the Library Team for the chance to volunteer in the school library on a regular shift! Check out our library team page and fill out our online application.

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Thursday at Lunch: LIBRARY UNPLUGGED

Bring your lunch but leave your worries behind. The John Buchan Library / Uncommon Learning Commons / Panther Den / Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School Library / The Most Awesome Place on Earth is pleased to offer a lunch-time acoustic performance on our brand new stage! Be sure to be there so you can tell your friends that you were at the very first “Library Unplugged” session!

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“Seeing In Technicolour” will be performing live on the Library Stage for the very first session of “Library Unplugged”