Counselors, Navigators at library to help with health care deadline

Need to sign up for health insurance before the March 31 deadline?

Healthcare Navigators from Randolph Hospital and Certified Application Counselors from Randolph Family Health Care at MERCE and will be on hand from 1-6 p.m. Monday, March 31, at the Asheboro Public Library, to help individuals and families enroll in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Help will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, and there is no charge. A list of items and information to bring with you for enrollment is available at the library Reference desk.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Edible plants, duct tape and cartooning to kick off library’s Spring Break

Whether you’re out of school or making up snow days, celebrate Spring Break at the Asheboro library with  a variety of events for school-age kids during the week of April 14.

All activities take place at 4 p.m.

On Monday, April 14,  “Grow Your Own Dinner!” Participants will learn about common plants used in their food, identify seeds and watch them grow.

Each child will go home with a seed starter kit of his or her choice, featuring vegetables and herbs we eat daily.

Stick around the library on Tuesday, April 15 for “Duct Tape Designs.” Kids, tweens and teens can learn to make useful and fun accessories with the ever-popular household product, duct tape.  Make three or more items including wallets, clutch-purses and cell phone covers. Ages 8-up.

Join illustrator Rich Powell for “Cartooning for Kids” on Wednesday, April 16. Powell will help kids in grades 2-5 who are just discovering their cartooning talent create and make their own kooky characters.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the Spring Break activities are free and the public is invited.

The Asheboro library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Author Saloma Miller Furlong to share Amish experience

Meet author Saloma Miller Furlong, who has documented her break with her Amish community in two memoirs, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at the Asheboro Public Library

              

Miller’s appearance, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free and the public is invited.

Miller is author of Why I Left the Amish and a sequel, Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds, which was published this month. She also was featured in the American Experience documentary “The Amish,” which aired on PBS in 2012.

Her first book covers her coming of age in an Ohio Amish community, and her departure from it in a quest for freedom and more formal education. Her new book explores her experiences outside the Amish world — and her temporary return when a delegation from the community appeared to take her back.

Furlong graduated from Smith College in 2007. She and her husband David, a toymaker, live in Massachusetts and appear in a new American Experience documentary, “The Amish: Shunned,” airing this month.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Library to offer emergency preparedness program

Learn about how 911 works and how to prepare for an emergency – making your home safe and what you need to do to shelter in place during a disaster – with experts from Randolph County Emergency Services, on Tuesday, March 25 at the Asheboro Public Library.

The program will be offered twice, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

It’s free and the public is invited.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Library ‘Pet Party’ to welcome kids, favorite stuffed animals

Bring your kids and their favorite stuffed animals and dolls to a “Pet Party” Family Fun Night, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, at the Asheboro Public Library. Part of the library’s Every Child Ready to Read initiative, the event is for kids age 0-5 and their parents/caregivers, but older siblings are welcome.

The event, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free and the public is invited.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.