Silver City Summer Events
Thank you for staying with your child during events to help chaperone
Silver City Community Garden: Renate Victor is the point of contact for participating in this community project to increase local, fresh produce and to learn more about gardening.
Photo Display of Volunteers on Silver City School House Archaeology Site: Very young children to older adults worked cheerfully side by side on this long project, many of them from Silver City, but many were also good Samaritans from the region who just wanted to help and be involved in an archaeology project.
A photo display highlighting the volunteers will be displayed at the School House through the June town advisory board meeting. Special thanks to display organizer Dr. Ron Reno and Mona Reno. The display was funded, in part, by Silver City Task Force and Healthy Communities Coalition
Chautauqua Performance of Photographer Margaret Bourke-White by Dr. Doris Dwyer: Friday, May 28 at 6:30pm, Silver City School House: Scholar Doris Dwyer will portray the famous photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. Bourke-White married novelist Erskine Caldwell in Silver City in 1939 when the couple toured Nevada. The event is free and includes light refreshments. The recommended audience is teens and adults. This program is made possible by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and NV Energy. This program is organized and sponsored by Silver City Task Force and Volunteer Library, and funded, in party, by local used book sales and Healthy Communities Coalition. Call Quest Lakes for more information: 847-0742
Plein Air Painting Demonstration, June 25: Artist Jean Legassick has volunteered to demonstrate plein air painting in the Silver City on Friday, June 25 at 9am. En plein air is a French expression used to describe the act of painting outdoors. This event is recommended for children age 10 and up and their parents (please stay with your child during this event to help chaperone). Call Quest Lakes for more information: 847-0742.
Children’s Art Classes Using Recycled and Found Objects, Summer: Artist Heather Patterson will teach a series of free children’s art classes for ages 6 to 12 this summer in Silver City on:
Tuesday, July 6: 11am-1pm
Monday, July 12: 11am-1pm
Tuesday, July 20: 11am-1pm
Monday, July 26: 11am-1pm
Call Quest Lakes for more information: 847-0742. The classes are limited to 15 children at each class, so call soon!
Classes for Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers, Parents, Grandparents, etc.: classes will be offered during the evening this summer on early childhood education and child development. Classes will be taught by experts from Cooperative Extension, Children’s Cabinet, etc. These classes are open to any adult. Contact Quest Lakes at 847-0742 for more information.
Class One: Fun with Science is a hands on class approved by the Nevada Registry for child care providers, preschool and elementary teachers, parents and grandparents. It will be held at the Silver City School House Community Center on Thursday, June 17 at 6:30pm. Participants will take part in about 10 activities, learning how to lead science experiments that result in Baggie Ice Cream, Kool-Aid Playdough, and “flubber.” This class by Children’s Cabinet professionals is being hosted by the Silver City Task Force at the Silver City School House Community Center. If you would like to register for the class, please contact: Kayelynn Savage at The Children's Cabinet at (775) 856-0134. The class includes a $7 fee for materials. If you have questions about the location, please call Quest Lakes at 847-0742.
Class Two: Creative Arts and NV Pre-K Standards for teachers, parents, babysitters, (age 16 and up) July 15: Tina Springmeyer, Pre-K Standards Coordinator for Nevada, will teach a fun class on Creative Arts and Nevada Pre-K Standards, including 2 early childhood hours credits, on Thurs July 15 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Silver City School House Community Center. The class will include hands-on projects to teach preschool, kindergarten, early childhood and afterschool program teachers ideas for enhancing art, dance and music in their classrooms. Parents, grandparents and guardians are also welcome. Projects will include painting, woodworking, etc, so please dress comfortably and casually. Call Quest Lakes to register: 847-0742.
Shakespeare at Sand Harbor Followed by Picnic and Swimming: July 22 at 10amThe D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program is a collaboration between the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Nevada Shakespeare Company. It is presented FREE for kids and their chaperones. In 2010, we will offer one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Tempest. The sorcerer and one-time Duke of Milan, Prospero, and his daughter, Miranda, have been trapped on a tropical island for 12 years. Their only companions are a Monster called Caliban, son of the Witch, who used to rule the Island and Ariel, a spirit loyal and known only to Prospero. As fate would have it, those who betrayed Prospero are brought within the reaches of his powers. His enemies find themselves at the mercy of a great storm and are cast upon the Island. With Magical Spirits, Monsters and Pirates, the Young Shakespeare production of The Tempest promises to be a fun, interactive show for the entire family
Other Silver City events: first Friday soup and salad dinners funded in part by Silver City Task Force and recycling by Jack Richmond (contact chef Cashion Callaway or see post office bulletin board); Silver City Community Garden (contact Renate Victor); cooking classes (TBA); volunteer library (contact Quest Lakes); long distance learning opportunities through Lyon School District (more news coming soon).
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
May 2010 Events in Silver City, Nevada
Photo Display of Volunteers on Silver City School House Archaeology Site: Friday, May 7 at 5:30pm. Very young children to older adults worked cheerfully side by side on this long project, many of them from Silver City, but many were also good Samaritans from the region who just wanted to help and be involved in an archaeology project.
A photo display highlighting the volunteers will be displayed at the soup dinner on Friday, May 7. Please RSVP by April 30 to Quest Lakes at 847-0742 or to Cashion Callaway. There is no charge for this event. Special thanks to chefs Cashion Callaway and Bonnie Brown and display organizer Dr. Ron Reno. This event is funded, in part, by Silver City Task Force and Healthy Communities Coalition
Chautauqua Performance of Photographer Margaret Bourke-White by Dr. Doris Dwyer: Friday, May 28 at 6:30pm, Silver City School House: Scholar Doris Dwyer will portray the famous photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. Bourke-White married novelist Erskine Caldwell in Silver City in 1939 when the couple toured Nevada. The event is free and includes light refreshments. The recommended audience is teens and adults. This program is made possible by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and NV Energy. This program is organized and sponsored by Silver City Task Force and Volunteer Library, and funded, in party, by local used book sales and Healthy Communities Coalition. Call Quest Lakes for more information: (775) 847-0742
A photo display highlighting the volunteers will be displayed at the soup dinner on Friday, May 7. Please RSVP by April 30 to Quest Lakes at 847-0742 or to Cashion Callaway. There is no charge for this event. Special thanks to chefs Cashion Callaway and Bonnie Brown and display organizer Dr. Ron Reno. This event is funded, in part, by Silver City Task Force and Healthy Communities Coalition
Chautauqua Performance of Photographer Margaret Bourke-White by Dr. Doris Dwyer: Friday, May 28 at 6:30pm, Silver City School House: Scholar Doris Dwyer will portray the famous photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. Bourke-White married novelist Erskine Caldwell in Silver City in 1939 when the couple toured Nevada. The event is free and includes light refreshments. The recommended audience is teens and adults. This program is made possible by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and NV Energy. This program is organized and sponsored by Silver City Task Force and Volunteer Library, and funded, in party, by local used book sales and Healthy Communities Coalition. Call Quest Lakes for more information: (775) 847-0742
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Soup and Salad Dinners
Community Soup and Salad Dinners First Friday of Each Month
Don't miss the outstanding food and company once a month at the library at 5:30pm. The meals are funded, in part, by Silver City Task Force, and prepared by chef extraordinaire Cashion Callaway with assistants Bonnie Brown, Sara L. and others.
Please RSVP by signing up on the sheet at the post office. This is a participatory dinner, so everyone contributes ingredients and/or helps set up and clean up.
While you're at the dinner, you're welcome to browse the library collection and borrow books. We've recently updated most of the collection with fresh titles including a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald and popular recent fiction such as Twilight, The Lovely Bones, Away by Amy Bloom and Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. In children's fiction, we have Jodi Lynn Anderson's May Bird series (Warrior Princess and Among the Stars).
We also have a large collection of cook books, and reference on gardening, science, Nevada history, archaeology, and authors such as Bob Elston, Jr. and Karen Wright, etc.
We also have two new youth encyclopedia sets thanks to Lyon County Libraries and Louise Crawford and Washoe Libraries. Be sure to have a look at the growing collection of new DVD's on science topics, and the current periodicals incluing Ms, Archaeology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, and Mother Jones.
Don't miss the outstanding food and company once a month at the library at 5:30pm. The meals are funded, in part, by Silver City Task Force, and prepared by chef extraordinaire Cashion Callaway with assistants Bonnie Brown, Sara L. and others.
Please RSVP by signing up on the sheet at the post office. This is a participatory dinner, so everyone contributes ingredients and/or helps set up and clean up.
While you're at the dinner, you're welcome to browse the library collection and borrow books. We've recently updated most of the collection with fresh titles including a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald and popular recent fiction such as Twilight, The Lovely Bones, Away by Amy Bloom and Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. In children's fiction, we have Jodi Lynn Anderson's May Bird series (Warrior Princess and Among the Stars).
We also have a large collection of cook books, and reference on gardening, science, Nevada history, archaeology, and authors such as Bob Elston, Jr. and Karen Wright, etc.
We also have two new youth encyclopedia sets thanks to Lyon County Libraries and Louise Crawford and Washoe Libraries. Be sure to have a look at the growing collection of new DVD's on science topics, and the current periodicals incluing Ms, Archaeology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, and Mother Jones.
Friday, July 10, 2009
What Can You Do This Friday When It's 100 Degrees?
Parents are invited to bring their children and stay with them for a morning of ice cream and water games in the Silver City Park this Friday, July 17 from 10am-noon. Please bring a towel and feel free to bring water toys such as squirt guns.
Silver City basket maker Kathy Mena will lead children in helping to make homemade ice cream with her hand crank ice cream maker this Friday. Dayton’s Community Roots will contribute fresh fruit from their Thursday Farmers’ Market for the ice cream.
This event is organized by the Silver City Task Force and Volunteer Library and funded through the task force, Healthy Communities Coalition, and volunteers including Comstock Youth Works teens and Kathy Mena. Please contact Quest at 287-7598 for more information.
If you haven't gotten a copy of the new books for young children for your child, you can pick up one then. Contact Quest for more info.
Silver City basket maker Kathy Mena will lead children in helping to make homemade ice cream with her hand crank ice cream maker this Friday. Dayton’s Community Roots will contribute fresh fruit from their Thursday Farmers’ Market for the ice cream.
This event is organized by the Silver City Task Force and Volunteer Library and funded through the task force, Healthy Communities Coalition, and volunteers including Comstock Youth Works teens and Kathy Mena. Please contact Quest at 287-7598 for more information.
If you haven't gotten a copy of the new books for young children for your child, you can pick up one then. Contact Quest for more info.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Readers' Choice Summer Reading from Silver City Library
We have a few recommendations for great summer reading available at our library. Please post your own suggestions and we'll feature them in a readers' choice display at the library this summer:
1)Theo recommends the biography Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo by Kenn Harper and also the fantasy adventure Fire of Heaven trilogy by Russell Kirkpatrick including Across the Face of the World; In the Earth Abides the Flame; and The Right Hand of God.
2)Quest recommends the nonfiction book Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat by Robert Sullivan
3) Mylo, age 9, recommends Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
4) Mert recommends Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
1)Theo recommends the biography Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo by Kenn Harper and also the fantasy adventure Fire of Heaven trilogy by Russell Kirkpatrick including Across the Face of the World; In the Earth Abides the Flame; and The Right Hand of God.
2)Quest recommends the nonfiction book Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat by Robert Sullivan
3) Mylo, age 9, recommends Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
4) Mert recommends Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Friday, July 3, 2009
Children and Parents Activity Days at the Library Fridays 10am- noon
Silver City Volunteer Library is hosting Friday morning activities for parents and their children. We've had such a good time wtih the following activities in June: teaching preschoolers literacy skills with Dolch site words; Tune In To Kids day with Nevada Early Childhood Project; and Planter Decorating Day (thank you Community Roots and Beautiful Foods Farm for terracotta pots and chives, thank you NV Dept of Health for the beautiful new books for children on nutrition and exercise).
Watch the Silver City Facebook Site, Dayton Courier, www.virginiacitynews.com, and the Silver City Post Office board and School House board for announcements about children's events on Fridays 10am-noon. Friday, July 10 children and their parents are invited to a messy day of outdoor art with shaving cream and pudding painting. Call Quest at 847-0742 for more information. These events are organized by the Silver City Volunteer Library and Task Force, with funding from Healthy Communities Coalition, local fundraisers, and lots of volunteer help from parents and the teens of Comstock Youth Works.
Silver City Volunteer Library is hosting Friday morning activities for parents and their children. We've had such a good time wtih the following activities in June: teaching preschoolers literacy skills with Dolch site words; Tune In To Kids day with Nevada Early Childhood Project; and Planter Decorating Day (thank you Community Roots and Beautiful Foods Farm for terracotta pots and chives, thank you NV Dept of Health for the beautiful new books for children on nutrition and exercise).
Watch the Silver City Facebook Site, Dayton Courier, www.virginiacitynews.com, and the Silver City Post Office board and School House board for announcements about children's events on Fridays 10am-noon. Friday, July 10 children and their parents are invited to a messy day of outdoor art with shaving cream and pudding painting. Call Quest at 847-0742 for more information. These events are organized by the Silver City Volunteer Library and Task Force, with funding from Healthy Communities Coalition, local fundraisers, and lots of volunteer help from parents and the teens of Comstock Youth Works.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Dr. Ron Reno Lecture on Windmill Wash
Dr. Reno's archaeology lecture on Aug. 22 attracted a small but fascinated audience with many questions. He described the Civilian Conservation Corp's attempt at a flood control project for Bunkerville, NV in the 30's. The young CCC men ended up creating some skilled rock work that still exists today, but did not succeed in preventing flooding.
Interestingly, Reno pointed out that the original Silver City School House survived until its fiery demise in part due to a successful CCC project. More on that later...
Interestingly, Reno pointed out that the original Silver City School House survived until its fiery demise in part due to a successful CCC project. More on that later...
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