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Home My WebLink AboutE-mail - CA Reads Initiative - Invitation Sweeney, Kathleen From: Sweeney, Kathleen Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2�:52 PM To: BOS Cc: Hahn, Paul Subject: FW: CA Reads Initiative - Invitation Attachments: 102414 CA Reads Invitiation to Local Electeds.pdf; 081214 CA Reads Prociamation.pdf Board members- The email below and attachments were sent by the Aeric of the Town of Paradise. I apologize for the delay in forwarding this information to you, but the ori&al entrails were erroneously sent to another County employee who shares my last narne. Kathleen Sweeney Assistant Clerk of the Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200 Oroville, CA 95965 530-538-7643 "COUNTY OF BuTTE E-MAIL DISCLAIIVER.This e-mail and any attachment thereto may contain private, confidential,and privileged material for the -ole use of the intended recipient.Any review,copying,or d[stribUtiOli of this re-mail(or any attachments thereto)by other than the County,of Butte or the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are NOT the intended recipient, please contact the sender irrInlediately and permanently delete the original and any copies of this e-mail and any attachments thereto," From: Gutierrez, Joanna [M�1i[to-Jgrjdenez' Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 11:53 AM To: Sweeney, Kristin Subject: FW: CA Reads Initiative - Invitation Hi Kathleen, Here is the invitation to the CA Reads discussion and the proclamation by Mayor Lotter. I forgot to attach them to the previous entail, Joanna From. Gutierrez, Joanna Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 11:49 AM To. 'kswee,ney@b,uttecounty.net' Cc: Lotter, Scott Subject: CA Reads Initiative - Invitation Hi Kathleen, I am inviting the Butte County Board of Supervisors, and you (of course) to attend and participate in a community book discussion at one of the local branches of the library. There are only three discussions remaining in our series of eight. Thee Saturday discussions will take place in Gridley this Saturday, followed by Paradise on November 1 st and in Chico on November 8th. Would you please forward the attached flyer to your City Council members. if appropriate, please circulate among all employees. Contact me if you have any questions. I am also the secretary for the Paradise Friends of the Library. The Paradise Friends of the Library received a grant from California Humanities to promote the first of a multi-year initiative, War Comes Home. Information on the initiative is posted at www.calhum.org. I strongly encourage people to travel to the site. Mayor Scott Lotter authored a proclamation endorsing the initiative, copy attached. Thank you. Hope you can make it. CALIFORNIA READS - Please join us at the library! War Comes Home is Cal Humanities new statewide effort to engage Californians in thinking about what it means to come home from war - for our veterans as well as the rest of us. To coincide with the War Comes Home initiative, California Reads — a Cal Humanities program - has chosen Karl Marlantes' book, What It Is Like to Go to War, to anchor a community read and book discussion. Free copies of the book are available at the library and book sets available for discussion groups. WHEN & WHERE Saturday Afternoon 1 — 2 pm Gridley Library — October 25th `Paradise Town Hall — November 1 St 5555 Skyway*PFOL Book Sale is scheduled at Paradise Library 90arn-3pm Chico Library — November 8th Contact your local librarian or Oliver Allen, Outreach Coordinator at 353-0840 Sponsored by Paradise Friends of the Library Joww �� Y , CMC Paradise Town Clerk Town of Paradise 5555 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969 530-872-6291 Extension 101 jgutierrez@townoFparadise.com 2 P i TOWN OF PARADISE DISCLAIMER:This email and any attachment may contain private,confidential, and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review,copying,or distribution of this email,or any attachments thereto by other than the Town of Paradise or the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are NOT the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. 3 I Y IY 0 ro �^L p CALIFORNIA READS - l join us at the library! I ' Corneis Homeis Cal Humanities new tatewide effort to engage Californians in thinking about what it means to came home from rar - for our veterans as well as the rest of us, To coincide with the War Comes e initiative, California Reads — a Cal Humanities program - has chosen Karl arlante ' book, What It Is Like to Go to War,. to anchor a community read and bookdiscussion. Fran copies of the book are available at the library and book sets mailable for discussion groups. WHEN & WHERE Saturday Afternoon 1 2 p Gridley Library -- October 25th *Paradise Town Hall November 1" 5555 Skyway * FOL Book gale is scheduled at Paradise Library 10arn-3pm Chico Library — November 8th Contact your local librarian or Oliver Allen, Outreach Coordinator at 353-0840 for more information. Sponsored y Paradise e Friends of the Library. 16 HUMANITIES A STATE OF OPEN MIND dk 11 /, WHEREAS, the Paradise Friends of the Library, on behalf of the Butte County Library, received a Cal Humanities grant, to engage the community in the War Comes Home initiative in Such a way as to promote the library as a safe place for veterans and their families to meet with advocates and access resources; and, WHEREAS, Cal Humanities is an independent non-profit partner with the National Endowment for the Humanities founded in 1975 as a granting organization that has grown and evolved over the years to promote the humanities as relevant, meaningful ways to understand the human condition and connect citizens to each other in order to become a better California; and, WHEREAS, starting in'X114, Cal Humanities is embarking on a multi-year initiative, War Comes Home, to focus on the experience of veterans returning from war in order to create opportunities for communities across California to grapple with critical questions in the aftermath of over a dozen years of war; and, WHEREAS; California Reads, a program of Cal Humanities in partnership with the California Center for the Book which invites Californians from all walks of life throughout our State to participate in reading and discussion programs and related activities to be hosted by libraries, schools, colleges, bookstores and other community institutions and, WHEREAS, to coincide with the War Comes Home initiative, California Reads has chosen Karl Marlantes' book, What It Is Like to Go to War, to anchor the read; and, WHEREAS, the Butte County Library has scheduled eight community sessions to take place at four branches of the library for veteran advocates to present information on veteran resources available in our communities, for community book discussions, and to give our veterans a chance`to, share:their stories. NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Scott Lotter, Mayor of the '"I'own of Paradise, hereby recognize the efforts of the Butte County Library in promoting the Cal Humanities initiative for the benefit of local veterans and their families and in providing a forum in which our community can gather to discuss the impacts,of war, and encourage the citizens of Paradise to read the book and join the discussion. The Paradise Friends of the Library will be hosting forums in the community room of the Paradise Branch of the Library on September 10'and.November 1, 2014. IN WITNESS WHEREOF"J have'hereunto set my band and caused the official seal for the Town of Paradise to be affixed hereto this 12t"day of August, 2014. Scott Lotter, Mayor