Domino Club and Telekinesis

Below, you can see the physical evidence of a strange new WPK phenomenon which we call "dominoes and telekinesis." Domino club, which is a bit of an unfixed floating club, but formally meets Wednesday at 4pm, is a huge hit and the level of concentration and competition is unparalleled in WPK's history.
In order to gain that extra advantage, some players appear to have begun using telekinesis with spectator partners feeding them the tiles in the other players' hands. Or, at least that's what we think they're doing. Or might be doing, or something. You be the judge.

Incidents in the life of sugar addicts

One rather alarming moment in the life of sugar addicts appears below. Because you can't eat in the library, kids often end up in the front foyer having a snack when the weather is cold. Our desk is separated from the foyer by only a large pane of glass, which gave us the opportunity to catch Branden eating a lollipop while holding the giant chocolate rabbit from which Starlyn had rather cruelly bitten the ears off. That's Starlyn on the right, giving it two thumbs up.

Onward with pictures of sugar overindulgence. Below, left to right, Brianna, our homework helper from Johnson and Wales, Yisel, and Brenlee, in the middle of our Valentine cookie decorating party, which involved 3 tubs of icing. This isn't the picture in which Yisel looks alarmingly sick.

Valentine head, valentine tree

A visit from Valentinehead, possibly an escaped cartoon or comics character who leaked out from the TV? Milly N in background: not scared of valentine head exactly, but half amused and half wary.
Closely followed by the images below of our valentine tree, and an awesome closeup of the decorations.

WPK party central for valentine's day!

the VIDEO GAMES are coming!!! the video games are coming!!!!

the VIDEO GAMES are coming!!!

the VIDEO GAMES are coming!!!
the VIDEO GAMES are coming!!!
the VIDEO GAMES are coming!!!
It's almost too exciting to say much more- but soon, people of Washington Park, the video games will be on the shelf!

WPK Library is adding about 30 video games and if things go well, we will keep adding them. Once we have them, they will go out for one week, with overdue fines of 25¢ a day. Like our DVDs, you won't be able to renew them.

So... our first purchase went like this. Sir Tim of Gamestop (I call him that, but I'm guessing other people call him Tim) put together a package of games from lists different kids had made, according to our budget. We decided to only buy games rated Everyone through Teen so that pretty much everyone who wants these games can play all of them at a good comfort level.

We will not reveal the full list of games here and now, but I will say that someone named Mario appears more than once.

It's snowing!

It's snowing and we've got our holiday spirit going on-
check it out!


Silvio, our Foster Grandparent, 
with Santa!

The all silver tree!

Leilani, with Santa!                                                        

Julio, our security guard, with Santa!?!















Brenlee and her 
close personal friend, Santa!                                                                  

3D at WPK

Sometimes, after school on a not very beautiful afternoon, there's nothing much better than sharing some 3D glasses and a movie at the library.