The Professor!

Who is the mysterious Professor?

He was a 14" tall hollow chocolate bunny; oddly he was holding a book and had been given the name "The Professor." No one knows why. We acquired him from the Family Dollar Store about a month before Easter.
No one could stand the waiting before eating him... almost daily, Sean asked: "When will we eat the Professor?"
Finally on Friday the 22nd, we did the deed.

Fire on O'Connor Street

Late late late last Thursday night, the 21st, the house on the corner of Jillson and O'Connor Streets burned down- right behind our library. Fortunately everyone got out quickly and everyone's OK. Most amazingly, the demolition started almost immediately on Friday morning- right after the fire marshal came, at about 11:00 am.

And by Saturday afternoon, there was only a vacant lot.

It's National Poetry Month, Fool!

It's National Poetry Month, and we had the great good luck to be visited by the following members of Ocean State Poets: Margie Flanders, Larry Krips, and Lynnie Gobeille. A couple of our own library users read as well: Sam LaFortune, and Asia Perry. Some audience members also took turns reading poems by our visiting poets, and a couple of us just read our favorite poems.
Below, Sam LaFortune reading from his phone. And below that, our visiting poets.

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!