lit we are yes it is lit yeah this is our season that we'd like to have fun and we've been having fun already and this actually looks like me when i'm putting trying to get light cell to put like on my while this one while it's not exactly fun but it's inspiring and it's timely because of what just happened in california i'll do the holiday stuff for the sea then they have to wait with bated breath for the is about this is very timely because it's about the california libraries and the wildfires wait yeah so everybody knows by now and they leave most of them are out i think they had i was just out in california last week and we had this horrendous rainstorm in san diego which i was asking my sister does it ever really rain like this i didn't i don't recall it ever raining like it did it was an all day nonstop that when we went to the beach half the beach was it you go like this you know how beach will go like this and into the ocean it went like this and it was like all wiped away like like a clean somebody just taken a night and cut it right there it was crazy so then i had this thought of wow that rain if it was in northern california well that would have been very helpful i thought for the wildfires i was talking about this with my neighbors saturday night and my neighbor jean reminded me he said you know what he does actually know because it was it gets and i forgot the this part is that it gets so burnt out that now there's nothing to stop all the mud and you know the flooding i'll let you know if i'm getting to stay here oh speaking of fire wow was this an appropriate topic ok so that's what this is about and they talk about paradise california because that was one that really got hit bad paradise and other communities cope with disaster public institutions across the country are rallying in support of displayed displaced library employees and libraries devastated by the wildfires in california and that have claimed more than sixty lives that was the time of this i know that that's gone up this was a couple weeks ago and resulted in the evacuation of tens of thousands of people miraculously the paradise branch of the butte county library system is still standing says the butte county library director noting that it's one of the only remaining structures in town so not only like a remaining library a remaining structure that's really something and then i'm going to follow this up real quick with a little follow up that's even more crazy right now the biggest issue they have going on is people have lost their technology so this is what's the problem is that everybody now is flooding into this one library structure all these people have lost their homes and they're looking for the library for help for wife by technology right everything that they've lost in a cave to their family absolutely so so they're going in there looking you know for computers why if i printers oh my gosh they're trying to have you know use all of this to even help displaced residents contact insurance companies you know how to help them contact thema one of the biggest issues they have going on is that people have lost their technology in five of the libraries twenty six staff members had lost their homes in the fire incident sad like if you brought it here and just if you could imagine that we have so many people affected by the fire that we are still in an urgent situation we are now starting to look at disaster recovery and one of the things that they are working on is trying to get into you know into the branch libraries you know that they're able to do that to get some help they're reaching out to find out what the situation is with other other libraries and what can be done what are the needs of the libraries what the you know what the director needs and then in spite of all of the sad sad thing and absolutely amazing that that was one of the last or one of the only is there are surely ok so let me just tell you one more thing this is even crazier and i'm hoping that you're going to be able to be able to show the picture on the camera because this is so unbelievable amidst the rubble in paradise this town the one thing stood standing one little past it skipped over one small but sentimental structure this crystal pappas she had built this little free library and she didn't even know that it had survived because she had to knew my mom's house was gone i knew my dad's house was gone i knew my brother in law's house was gone i knew my sister in law's else was gone purpose wrote in response but i did not know that my little free library had made her this isn't that something she said that she only recently built and registered the little free library which is of course part of a worldwide book sharing network and you have to put you know be harder yeah and she had yet to put the official placard on it it said according to the registration it was built by pappas father installed by her husband and she named it the town's called paradise she named it a reader's paradise i thought about it so many times she explained about learning it was still standing and she was like think you think if you let me show you the before and after fight then sure i've got them i don't know if you're going to be able to really see it you can see a little bit and i'll try to carry this is my wonderful way of technology and showing pictures so i don't know if you can really see it it shows how it was made look at not only how it was made if you can get in there but the greenery around it can you see like the fence and that i mean every right to do all right i can all right so that was yeah so that was one of the officially open it is there is a look at that around there's nothing behind it the fence is gone the homes are gone and there's that you know one green bush in there is there it stands all by itself on believable that's so crazy so that was a story i wanted to share i know that in the midst of what everybody there is going through which i can't in my wife can't even fathom you know having gone through something like that in and you know evacuating and losing your home but you know being in the library business you know hearing about the libraries that was opened to help people that survived in one little free library should be ending library ok all right well moving on so one of our least stephanie for me one of my favorite things about the library at christmas time is our elf on the shelf so we have an elf on the shelf kocherry last week and then from now on and so i before well but instead of being one that watches kids in their homes and report it sustained on every havior at home they report to santa their behavior at the library and they also love to read so if you come in the library any day between now and the nineteenth and find the all to write down she is that's such a fun tradition and i love it i don't know if we have a chance to talk about our program last night just briefly go ahead we had the township light up night with  mcmurry elementary choir singing their christmas carols with under the direction of race a grimace what a wonderful evening again there were it was a beautiful night sixty degrees at least for the during the day very comfortable in the evening it was so packed it was i mean there were program has grown and grown and grid has grown like hundreds of people you know inside and outside but so it was a wonderful success and of course our department you know putting together the gingerbread houses and watching the little kids you know take them out what fun it was but speaking of alpha on the shelf i was overhearing kids walk around and go and you know mom you know hey dad we can look for the elf on the shelf and if we look and and we have to leave to see what it's reading i mean they had to my was somebody either that remembers from last year or was just at your program since it's all very fresh and they were even doing it last night then what was even more fun my husband is standing there and he goes what are they talking about and i said so cold and he was so overwhelmed by the attendance last night and all i mean there were i mean i was standing up on the chair taking and he took pictures too because he sits on a different counties board in the library board and he's so off of what we do here in peter's township that they don't do in other libraries that he's like why you guys are amazing why can't every library be like this and i'm like well you know a lot of different reasons but i said we do work really hard and we are very very blessed to have the resources to be able to do what we do and that that piece makes makes a difference but we do work hard and come up with all right so that's enough of  thank you i'm like i'm looking at the school in my head in the old venetia school they have a train society and it's like all volunteer like these guys that come in and kids that have passions for trains and they put a train sets together so every year they have blessed us with a wonderful train display really by the way it's big because i sat usually goes from here to you know i mean choose a bullet and size it's big and then they built that whole thing around it the lobby and it's going to be there through the first of the year and you can come again and again and press the buttons because they do it they set it up where you can press the buttons and make it play engineer yes ok so moving on from christmas for about two minutes then we're going to go back into it the first week of december is the national hour of code this is a national initiative for kids and of all people of all ages will learn about coding so we are going to be doing for adults that week as well so please check our website for more details on that absolutely huge huge topic yeah everything that i see that comes you know in our you know our journals and magazines  whatever if it comes up and it's something of you know importance are fun probably even more so fun fun for the kids i mean that last year with the kids it was fun it was fun ok family ornament night that is go you can come in as a family and make make three different ornaments that they can take back and input on their trees or use however you want to give more ways a special gifts are ornament night is is fine this one is going to have a little bit of a different twist i'm going to have them make the three ornaments and then we're going to make cards and we're going to have them make holiday cards for of christmas in the holidays and yeah and i think it's cool and you know i am so certain that with the military like even with civilians or any of us i can't think of anything that i love as much as i like things from kids yeah you know i love how they write i love how words are spelled or not spelled i love their thought you know and i bought all kinds of fun stickers and things to make them very festive and i just think that you  it up and just be fun yeah and just have a smile on your face and i think about where you all are you know the circumstances so come and make ornaments and christmas cards for the kids or for the troops awesome of volunteers to come in and we're going to have it sort of the team room so if you're a team volunteer we'll have christmas playing for you in some refreshments and things and then the public will be able to come in and get christmas gifts wrapped we'll be providing  robin paper and tape and things like that we will not be providing boxes so we do ask that your gifts come boxed or if they're already in a book like you know they're packaged in a box and some of them be easier to wrap and we it's not required but we're asking a suggestion of a few would bring one nonperishable food item for our food bank in exchange for every gift you have wrapped says going to be the week of the tenth pretty much every day after school so it's the tenth or the thirteenth so i think it's from florida five  on the tenth and on the eleventh and then from four to seven on the twelfth on the thirteenth so please if you're looking for some volunteer hours please let us know i have a couple could sign up and we need as many as possible because hopefully we'll get a lot of people in the community i know i was reported today so feel free to come another day with three ok three maximum per day right person right ok yeah because i could just see what see myself i won't put this on anybody else coming you again ok teen books to big screen that's a new program that my sydney is doing when we're going to be reading a book and discussing it and watching the movie and so on the fifteenth she is doing a free popcorn absolutely i'm in ok i want to talk i'm going to mention rickly holiday hours and then i want to mention one more thing about the holidays the holiday hours for the library we are closed on december twenty fourth december twenty fifth december thirty first and on new year's day we're not close in december thirty first for open ninety four zero nine to four on the thirty first and closed on new year's day ok thanks for  go to the website but we are close to the twenty fourth twenty fifth floor on the thirty first and closed on the first ok but i have to say something so in the mean time before even christmas hits and everything yes so good i have to say that happy hanukkah to yes oh i have to show you that a minute under my butt so i was telling you so happy hanukkah if you are looking for great books this one isaac  yeah i was going to say that but i didn't want to anyway the how cute the parakeet name dreda is really cute how cute is that great we have a hanukkah display in our library in this one by maxine vomitous sherry put together for us say you know you just you know it's just been these and i know it's a game and everything and i'm not sure the details about that but couple days ago i saw that a school kids together to and i i don't know if there was a record in there to begin with about it but all together guinness was there they all had a little drake and it was a record to see how many little dreidels would spin at one time and like i said you know sometimes like you start your own record so i don't know that for sure or if they if it was in fact they just want it because either way they are in it you know what i mean so here's our pink cradle ok we've ok i brought a pet i brought a hanukkah present for lucas nice i did so please tell us happy hanukkah from this linda because i know this is something that is like he just loves and cherishes me all right i was at me a poodle in a dog house on the second day of christmas my true love gave me to st bernard and a poodle in a dog house so you can figure out your part and on the day of christmas hounds oh my god here sing with me three cocker spaniels to say barnard stand up in a dog house good on the fifth day of christmas my true love gave to me