Reconciliation starts with education Truth and Reconciliation Week started Monday, Sept 25 and culminates on Sept 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Sept 30 is also Orange Shirt Day. Learning & commemorating the truth of our history from First Nations, Métis & Inuit knowledge keepers is an important part of reconciliation. MMPL maintains, tags, ...
Learning Again in Almonte offers fantastic courses & lectures - all take place at the Almonte branch. Explore and register at the website. Coming up Saturday, September 30 is the lecture: Bearing Witness - Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Lectures are attended by donation, but registration is required.
A wonderful event with author Charlotte Gray coming up Tuesday, October 10 @6:30pm, at Almonte branch, in partnership with Mill Street Books! Books available for purchase at the event by cash or e-transfer. Registration is required: form.jotform.com/232395411202243
The fall season has begun! The following are starting up (mainly in October) at your library. For details on these and all programs & events, please visit the website. The creative writing club starts 4 October from 4-5pm at Almonte branch. Spanish conversation for adults starts 11 October from 4-5pm at Almonte branch. French conversation ...
Welcoming Week is an annual opportunity to recognize and celebrate the people, places and values that help everyone feel welcome and give them a sense of belonging in their local community, no matter where they come from. Browse (and reserve from) a list of 25 great books for all ages featuring Canadian immigration stories at ...
First film - You Hurt My Feelings - is at 1pm on Wednesday, 27 September, Almonte branch.
BACK TO SCHOOL is right around the corner! Between the chaos of shopping for supplies & clothes that fit and getting back to a routine, let's not forget to commemorate the nostalgic moments of back-to-school portraits for 2023. This year Pure Natural Portraits (registration at the link) has partnered with the Mississippi Mills Public Library ...
Donations of non-perishables to Lanark County food bank-The Hunger Stop are being accepted at the Almonte & Pakenham branches - until 31 August! This is part of the OPP & municipality's 2023 Bail Out fundraiser.
Gearing up for back-to-school? Lead the way with these great picture and junior fiction books! Check out the full list here: https://tinyurl.com/5n6p5kuj