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Up or Downsizing Your Home with Tips for Buying and Selling - Money Smart Week
Friday, April 27, 2018
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Meeting Room B
Are you looking to sell your home and buy something larger? Are you retiring and looking to downsize? Co-presented by a local realtor and mortgage broker, learn the costs of selling and buying in today's market. They will describe the process from beginning to end, including contingent offers, preparing your home for sale, and expected costs on both ends. Presented by Julia Labuda of Always Home Real Estate Services and Julie Phillips of United Home Loans.
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Build & Carve
Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Learning Lab
Sign up to use our 3D Printer or CNC Mill. Possible projects include making your own models, game pieces, replacement parts, stamps, and engravings. Staff will provide assistance with using machines and software.
Registration required. Register online or call 815-534-6173. The Learning Lab equipment is only available to FPLD Cardholders age 13+.
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3D Design with SketchUp
Thursday, May 03, 2018
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Learning Lab
SketchUp is a free program that lets you build 3D models, no technical skills required. Come to this session to learn how to build your own models, which can get printed with our 3D Printer.
Participants are entitled to print one object on our 3D printer, free of charge.
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Top Shelf Tuesdays
Tuesday, May 08, 2018
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Meeting Room A
Top Shelf Tuesdays -- Books.Banter.Booze. -- Adults 21+ will discuss a variety of books, from the latest fiction and mystery, controversial nonfiction, and popular young adult, and more.
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This month we are discussing The Trespasser by Tana French. Detective Antoinette Conway has not found it easy to be on the Murder Squad. Just handed a case that looks like a typical domestic, she and her partner don't believe it's that simple. Copies of the book will be made available to check out at the library one month prior to the meeting date.
Register online or call 815-534-6173.
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Build & Carve
Friday, May 11, 2018
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Learning Lab
Sign up to use our 3D Printer or CNC Mill. Possible projects include making your own models, game pieces, replacement parts, stamps, and engravings. Staff will provide assistance with using machines and software.
Registration required. Register online or call 815-534-6173. The Learning Lab equipment is only available to FPLD Cardholders age 13+.
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Nonfiction at Night
Monday, May 14, 2018
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Meeting Room A
Join us on Monday evenings to discuss a broad selection of nonfiction.
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This month's selection is The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse. Citing how over-protected youth are ill-equipped to handle the demands of the real world, a guide to raising self-reliant young adults explains how to revive core formative experiences to create responsible, active, and engaged citizens.
Copies of this month’s selection will be available at the library. Call 815-534-6173 for more information, or to register.
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Cut & Sew
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Learning Lab
Sign up to use one of our sewing machines or our Silhouette Cameo cutter. Make your own projects: sew hems, pillows, skirts & more, or use the cutter to make cards, stickers, decals, or other paper crafts. Staff will provide assistance with using the machines and the Silhouette software.
Registration required. Register online or call 815-534-6173. The Learning Lab equipment is only available to FPLD Cardholders age 13+.