Adult Connections: Container Gardening

with Tara Kolla of Silver Lake Farms Thursday, March 18, 10:00 a.m. It doesn’t matter how small the space, everyone can grow something, whether it’s flowers or food. Grower and garden guru TARA KOLLA of Silver Lake Farms, will get us started. We’ll learn how to create a happy, healthy, natural environment for growing food and flowers from seed. She’ll tell us how to prepare the soil, how to properly water and feed plants, and share tips for saving water and money. Tara is a certified urban farmer who started growing and selling organic cut flowers out of her back yard in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, in 2003. She quickly expanded her business, adding organic vegetables, and workshops on urban farming. She recently started offering cooking classes to help her customers and students find new ways to prepare and serve all the fresh produce they are growing under her tutelage. Tara and Silver Lake Farms were featured in Los Angeles Magazine’s October 2009, “Home Grown” issue, and more recently in the February 2010 issue of Sunset magazine. Join us in the Barth Community Room and cultivate that green thumb. Adult Connections is a new program being offered at the Crowell Public Library on the third Thursday of the month. Enjoy coffee, donuts and a new topic of interest to an adult audience each month. Upcoming “explorations” may include travel, exercise, digital cameras, de-cluttering, or any other topic of general interest. ### 1890 Huntington Drive, San Marino, CA 91108-2595 ● Phone: (626) 300-0777 Book the beautiful Barth Community Room for your next workshop or corporate event! For more information, visit our website www.CrowellPublicLibrary.org - “Meeting Room Information.”

The Doctor Is In: Preventing Stroke

Preventing Stroke, Aneurysm, and Other Vascular Related Conditions Monday, April 19, 2010, 6 p.m. DR. ANDREW HURWITZ, a Board certified Thoracic and Vascular Surgeon will discuss simple methods to prevent brain attack (stroke) and other serious vascular related conditions including aneurysm. Learn how early detection of vascular disease can save your life. There will be an opportunity to ask the doctor questions at the end of the talk, and light refreshments will be served. The program is FREE, but space is limited. Call (626) 300-0777 to reserve your space. This lecture is part of the ongoing THE DOCTOR IS IN! series of educational programs designed to help you stay healthy and active. The lectures by some of the communities most accomplished physicians are being presented at Crowell Public Library, in conjunction with the San Gabriel Valley Medical Center. Join us in the Barth Community Room and learn about important health topics from the experts.

Poetry Slam at the Coffeehouse!

Perform at the Crowell Public Library’s
Poetry Slam at the Coffeehouse!
Barth Community Room
Wednesday April 14th at 6pm

April is National Poetry Month—what better way to celebrate than by attending or performing at the Crowell Public Library's second annual poetry slam?! Teens and adults from the greater San Gabriel Valley will have an exciting opportunity to deliver dynamic poetry performances in a coffeehouse setting—complete with live acoustic guitar music played by local talent Rick Valladares. We will serve refreshments--and coffee, of course!

What exactly is a poetry slam? A poetry slam is a competition, a performance, entertainment, excitement, art. Everyone will have an opportunity to perform in front of a panel of judges. Never been in a poetry slam? This is your opportunity to shine!

Teens and adults ages 12 and up are invited to take a chance, get inspired, be creative, entertain, perform, slam! Registration is required of participants--first come, first served; call (626) 300-0777. Performers must have original pieces reviewed by staff before event begins. Prizes will be awarded in two age categories. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Crowell Public Library.