Fireworks around town this weekend

From the Journal Gazette:

Fort Wayne: Centennial Wireless Fireworks Spectacular begins at noon Saturday at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. The event will feature food vendors and a petting zoo. Music will start at 4 p.m., and country music star Jo Dee Messina will perform about 7 p.m. Fireworks will begin at 10:15 p.m. Event is free.

The Fort Wayne TinCaps game begins at 7 p.m., with fireworks afterward. A ticket is required to attend the game.

Leo-Cedarville: Fireworks begin at dusk Saturday at Riverside Gardens Park at Schwartz and Leo-Grabill roads. Food, entertainment and children’s games begin at 2 p.m. The event requires $3 for parking.

Rock the Plaza band links

If you want to get a preview of the bands coming to Rock the Plaza, check out the Events page on our website.  Each band’s name is linked to their MySpace page or their own website.  Click on a link and you can listen to the music right on your computer!  This weekend we’ll be rocking out with Sunny Taylor, Heroes 4 Ghosts, and Tone Junkies!

Additional audiobooks to download to your iPod

Overdrive has a new release of their Overdrive Media Console which makes even more titles compatible with iPods. Check out the list of downloadable audiobooks available to you free from home with your ACPL library card at ACPL’s Digital Home Page and then download the latest version of Overdrive Media Console to start enjoying free audiobooks today. If you need assistance, feel free to call us at 421-1210 or email us at ask@acpl.info.

Jury Duty Scam

From the Better Business Bureau of Northern Indiana

Jury Duty Scam

Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.   The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant.   Give out any of this information and bingo;  your identity was just stolen.
The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states. These scammers are particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
For more information, please check these sites:  http://www.fortwayne.bbb.org/article/jury-duty-scam-hittiing-consumers-nationally-10864

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

Becky, Interdepartmental Librarian

June Adult Programs at the Main Library

Proposal Seeking Basics *Grant Seeking Basics is required first*.  Provided by the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resouce Center.  Registration is required.  To register, please phone 421-1238.  Monday, June 15, 11:30-1 pm

Movie Night: Hotel for Dogs Free tickets available in Art, Music & Media—tickets are required.  Tuesday, June 23, 6:30 pm

Becky, Interdepartmental Librarian

Rock the Plaza 2009 Schedule

Saturday, June 6 from 6-10 pm
Opening night features Bonafide, Todd Harrold Band, and Brother

Saturday, June 13 from 6-11 pm
Tie Dye Night features The Marnee Project and The Why Store

Saturday, June 20 from 6-10 pm
Heroes 4 Ghosts, Tone Junkies, and Sunny Taylor Band perform.

Saturday, June 27 from 6-10 pm
CD Release Party with Rockefeller Four, Pillars of Society, and Joey O Band

Sunday, July 5 from 5-10 pm
Relative Insanity, Jamcrib’s School of Rock (Distorted, D.E.T. & Rocknophobia), Gabrielle Tatara, and Martin Brothers Blues Band make up these Young Guns of Rock.

Saturday, July 11 from 6-10 pm
Celebrate G-Money’s Birthday with the Wailhounds, Swingin’ Angels, and G Money & Fabulous Rhythm.

Sunday, July 19 from 5-11 pm
Three Rivers Festival Fireworks with tunes from Phil’s Family Lizard, Mike Conley, Left Lane Cruiser, and Moser Woods.

Saturday, July 25 from 6-10 pm
Dave Todoran and the Mobile Home Wreckers, Lee Miles & The Illegitimate Sons, and Streetlamps for Spotlights.

Saturday, August 1 from 6-11 pm
Mojo Dub & ekoostik hookah

Saturday, August 8 from 6-10 pm
MisterE Band, the B-Sharps, and Steve Squires Band

Saturday, August 15 from 6-10 pm
Brian Lemert & the Dive Kings, Bellwhether, and Zephaniah

Saturday, August 22 from 6-10 pm
Enjoy Tribute Band Night with Grateful Groove, Highway 61 Revisitors, and Synchronicity

Saturday, August 29 from 6-10 pm
SuperHunk, U.R.B., and the Orange Opera

Becky, Interdepartmental Librarian

Unemployment filing on Sundays

Many people use the main library computers to file their unemployment claims on Sundays.  Because we are closed on Sundays now until after Labor Day, we wanted to let people know about another option they have.

Lincolnshire Church of the Brethren (6404 South Calhoun Street) will be opening their computer lab on Sundays – starting June 7 – from noon to 3 pm for unemployment filing.

~Sara
General Reference Librarian

Wayne Street open!

Wayne Street, which had been closed near the library for several weeks during city sewer work, has been reopened! Ewing Street is still closed (currently north of Jefferson, to Wayne Street). This should make it a bit easier getting to the library.

~Sara
General Reference Librarian

Memorial Day closings in Allen County

Via the News-Sentinel:

Closed Monday for Memorial Day:

♦Allen County Courthouse

♦Allen County Public Library and branches

♦Allen County’s various license bureaus

♦City-County Building

♦Workforce Development

♦City Utilities

♦Check with your individual financial institution

♦Fort Wayne Newspapers’ business offices will be closed, but the newsrooms remain open.

♦Fort Wayne Community Schools

♦East Allen County Schools

♦Southwest Allen County Schools

♦Northwest Allen County Schools

♦Fort Wayne area Lutheran Schools

♦Blackhawk Christian School

♦Canterbury schools
Services

♦No mail delivery. U.S. Postal Service branches will be closed.

♦No trash pickup for National Serv-All customers. Residential garbage and curbside recycling will be delayed one day.

-Melissa, Technology Librarian

Tickets for To Kill a Mockingbird Still Available

Next Tuesday evening, we will be showing the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the novel by Harper Lee. Free tickets for the movie are available in Art, Music & Media at the Main Library.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
6:30 PM
Main Library Theater
Ticket Required.

Six-year-old Jean Louise “Scout” Finch (Mary Badham) is growing up in the Depression era of the early 1930s in a small Southern town in this highly acclaimed motion picture based on Harper Lee’s semi-autobiographical novel. Jean’s father (Gregory Peck), the town lawyer, is a wise, quiet man with a great sense of justice who defends a poor, black man accused of rape.

129 minutes; Not rated; 1962; Black and White.