Events

Join us at the Caledon Reduces Waste Event hosted by EcoCaledon on Saturday, April 30, 2022 being held at the Caledon Seniors’ Centre (7 Rotarian Way, Bolton). The Caledon Public Library will be in attendance with relevant titles from our collection including books about reducing waste, reusing, and repairing household items.

The Caledon Reduces Waste Event includes:

• Repair Café (12:30 – 3:30pm)
• Rerun Fashion Show (2pm – 3pm)
• Screening of “The Story of Plastic” along with a follow-up discussion (4pm – 6pm)

For more information visit the EcoCaledon event page: Caledon Reduces Waste Event – EcoCaledon

To learn more about reducing waste and repairing, check out these titles:

Mend! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto by Kate Sekules

A guide to the art, history, and politics of visible mending–at once a practical instruction guide for techniques, a statement on the beauty of repairing and reimagining clothes, and a manifesto against fast fashion. Part manifesto, part how-to, this book persuasively calls for a new way of thinking and handling clothes, flying in the face of the supposedly life-changing magic of throwing them away. Kate Sekules’s message is simple: If your sweater gets a hole in it, don’t discard it–mend it! Changing the way we dress is easier and cheaper than we think, and with enthusiasm and wit, Sekules shows you how to fix your garments and make your wardrobe more interesting with visible mending techniques, and help save the planet (and your soul) in the process. The environmental and human impacts of our clothing consumer habits cannot be overstated. When we continually buy and discard clothes, we are contributing to pollution, exploitation, and the waste of natural resources. Instead, we should be buying less and better, swapping, embracing vintage, and of course, mending. Sharp and incredibly timely, Mend! is a push for a slow fashion revolution in which we stop to think critically about what we buy, where it comes from, who makes it, and what it is doing to the environment, and is simultaneously a fun, crafty manual that will inspire readers to roll up their (freshly mended) sleeves and get creative, share their designs, and form radical creative communities to change closets, lives, and the world

The Day the World Stops Shopping How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet-but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J.B. MacKinnon investigates how we might achieve a world without shopping

Don’t Be Trashy: A Practical Guide to Living With Less Waste and More Joy by Tara McKenna

Get beyond the Mason jar and learn how to dramatically reduce the waste you produce over the course of a year–one sanity-saving step at a time–in this super-practical guide from the creator of The Zero Waste Collective.
Say goodbye to your bursting toiletries bag, fast fashion, and all the plastic crowding your pantry. It’s time to build less trashy habits for a more sustainable and ethical life. With relatable stories, compassion, and a realistic perspective, Tara McKenna will show you how in this ultimate guide to going zero waste(ish).

Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse the Clothes You Love by Arounna Khounnoraj

We all have that favorite pair of jeans — no matter how baggy or worn they might become. In the movement against throw-away culture and fast fashion, learn how to pick up a needle and rediscover the forgotten techniques and the joy of mending. In Visible Mending, Arounna explores why we should mend, and how to mend a variety of different fabrics. Work through the illustrated step-by-step instructions that will demystify mending techniques and discover how these can be easily applied to old items to give them a fresh, modern look. Packed with skill-based projects, this book reveals how to patch jeans, embroider over tears, dye stains and use the Japanese art of Sashiko. Visible Mending is a book for those who want to learn how to make the most of their wardrobes, be less wasteful, more sustainable and add a personal touch to their garments.

For more titles see our Read, Reduce & Repair book list here: Read, Reduce & Repair

Caledon Public Library is collaborating with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and is hosting the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP), a free tax clinic, where CRA volunteers complete tax preparation services for eligible individuals and families with moderate income and simple tax situations.

Here is a guide to see if you’re eligible to participate in the program:

Please complete the online appointment request form to be added to the waitlist to have your 2021 Income Taxes completed by a volunteer. Appointments will start in March and end April 30th, 2022.

Individuals need to do their taxes every year to qualify for many federal, provincial, and municipal programs and services. This is a difficult and sometimes overwhelming task for many people in need. Each year through the CVITP, organizations and volunteers help hundreds of thousands of eligible individuals file their income tax and benefit returns.

The CVITP service is offered free of charge to everyone who meets the eligibility criteria, and includes doing taxes for the current year. Read more about this program’s specifics at this link.

If you have access to a computer and feel comfortable completing your own return, you can visit the CRA website and find a free or pay-what-you-want tax software.

Caledon Public Library and the volunteers will not be responsible for any errors made to submitted income tax forms and cannot guarantee the amount received in tax returns or money owed. Individuals may be audited by the CRA at any time. Volunteers maintain the right to decline completing the tax return if the client does not meet the eligibility requirements.

If you have any questions, please contact us at 905-857-1400 ext. 223 or email us at ISAll@caledon.library.on.ca

“Creep” it real with some of these spooky spine tinglers, guaranteed to give you the shivers!  Here are some of our best picks for ages 9-12.  Remember, creepiness is very subjective.  A book that may pleasantly delight one person may horrify another! For even more Halloween-themed books please check out the link HERE

Exciting News! We are switching to a new catalogue as of December 20^th. Check it out with these blog links and create your account to place holds on these titles.

Goosebumps SlappyWorld: Fifth Grade Zombies by R.L. Stine

This is Slappy’s world — You only scream in it! When city kid Todd Coates moves from Queens, New York, to live on a Wisconsin farm for a year, he’s in for a more than just hanging out with his cousins Mila and Skipper. Strange things begin to happen all around him. But Todd is the only one who sees them. Late at night. In the cornfields. Todd is convinced there is something of the undead variety out there. Will he be able to prove it to his classmates before school is dismissed… permanently?

Shadow House #1: The Gathering By Dan Poblocki

Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House–and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy–an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack–who has already killed Bod’s family.

The Graveyard Book, a modern classic, is the only work ever to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) medals.

Don’t turn out the lights : a tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s scary stories to tell in the dark Edited by Jonathan Maberry

Featuring stories from R.L. Stine and Madeleine Roux, this middle grade horror anthology, curated by New York Times bestselling author and master of macabre Jonathan Maberry, is a chilling tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Flesh-hungry ogres? Brains full of spiders? Haunted houses you can’t escape? This collection of 35 terrifying stories from the Horror Writers Association has it all, including ghastly illustrations from Iris Compiet that will absolutely chill readers to the bone.

So turn off your lamps, click on your flashlights, and prepare–if you dare–to be utterly spooked!