Posted on Jan 30, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
The South Montgomery County/Woodlands Chamber of Commerce's Annual Taste of the Town will be held February 2, 2012 from 4:00 till 9:00 PM at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center. Your ticket includes food, beverages and festivities. Enjoy mouth-watering appetizers, entrées, desserts, pastries, and beverages from some of the area's finest restaurants, caterers, bakeries, delis and beverage companies. This is the premier event of the South Montgomery County business community.
Don't miss the chance to vote for your favorite restaurant to win the People's Choice Award!
Posted on Jan 16, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
The 36th annual Arbor Day Celebration is set for Saturday, Jan. 21, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the award-winning Rob Fleming Park in The Woodlands’ Village of Creekside Park.
Lovable mascot of The Woodlands, Puffy Pine Cone™, will also celebrate his birthday at this event along with the first annual “I Love Puffy” Day. Simply, interpret your favorite pine cone’s outfit for his 6th birthday and receive a free sandwich, chips and a drink at the event.
For the Arbor Day celebration, approximately 31,000 tree seedlings in eight different varieties will be distributed free, continuing a 36-year tradition that began in 1977. The selections of trees include Eastern Redbud, Flowering Dogwood, Loblolly Pine, Red Maple, Shumard Oak, Southern Wax Myrtle, River Birch and White Oak. In addition to receiving free tree seedlings, guests may register at the event to win one of five, seven-gallon native trees. The drawings will take place hourly. You must be present to win.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012 | Tagged in: Cassie
Now that the glitter is cleaned up and the trees are put away... it is time to give a fresh look to the store, and we are doing just that!
Our new swivel club chairs are guaranteed to liven up any room! Used in a garden room or breakfast nook would be divine.
Posted on Jan 09, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
Renovations at the South Regional Library in The Woodlands will help open up space and improve the traffic flow of the busiest library branch in Montgomery County.
About $63,000 is being used from the South Montgomery County Friends of the Library funds to enlarge the SMCFOL gift shop, rearrange the counter where patrons check out their books and the circulation work area for librarians to have more space, SMCFOL President Gail Magill said.
“The south regional library has been the busiest branch in the system and we definitely need more room. This will allow us to maximize the space we have,” said Sarah Booth, assistant director for the county’s library system.
Booth said the library, located at 2101 Lake Robbins Drive, posted more than 24,000 transactions for full-time staff member in the 2009-2010 fiscal year compared to 23,000 for the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Library in The Woodlands, about 17,000 in Magnolia and 15,000 in Conroe. With allocated funding for new material as low as it was 14 years due to budget cuts, Booth said the library system is becoming more reliant on groups like SMCFOL.
“There are no words to describe how valuable they are,” Booth said. “The Friends of the Library groups are so supportive … We would not be able to do these renovations without their foresight and dedication.”
Magill said the color selections are being approved and once that is complete, the renovations would take for less than two weeks. The renovations are coming from the $250,000 left from former SMCFOL member Lorna Felton, who passed away in 2009 and requested that the funding be spent to improve the libraries. This is the first improvement to be made from the funding.
“Lorna was such a dedicated volunteer and supporter of our libraries,” Magill said.
The SMCFOL operates a book store inside area libraries where they sell used books to help support the libraries, Magill said. They also hold book sales every year.
Despite the popularity of electronic readers, Magill believes the libraries still have value, especially since they offer computer classes and e-reader classes, as well as other community services, like summer reading programs for students.
Booth said the libraries “don’t work around it, we work with it,” by providing Overdrive, an online program which allows users to download free library and audio books to their electronic readers.
For more information on the renovations, classes or policy changes, go to www.countylibrary.org <http://www.countylibrary.org> .
source: The Woodlands Villager
Posted on Jan 03, 2012 | Tagged in: Cassie
