Stress Relief and Stress-Free News for the week

The pandemic lingers, the cost of living is increasing, and now we have war in Europe. Feeling stressed? Here is a simple list of ways you can manage the compounding anxiety you might be feeling. And please don't hesitate to use your free Employee Assistance Program benefit. Talking to someone trained to help who doesn't know you personally can be really comforting. Your identity is completely protected. All we get are the numbers of staff members using the service, never names. Help is a phone call away. 800-236-3231

We're returning to pre-pandemic meeting room occupancy starting today. Groups are already self-selecting their own meeting capacities and we're getting more and more groups needing more capacity. Linda will restore the original occupancies in the meeting room software. 

The City of Kenosha will offer an opportunity for residents to shred documents free of charge at three city locations from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 26, 2022. Shredding will be offered outside in the parking lots at the Northside Library, 1500 27th Ave.; at Southwest Library, 7979 38th Ave., and at the Kenosha Water Utility, 4401 Green Bay Road. Kenosha residents are welcome to bring up to five bags or boxes of items to be shredded by Shred-It representatives. Future shredding dates are: Saturday, June 25 (which also includes hard drive destruction at the Kenosha Water Utility location) and Saturday, October 22.

In the mood for a story? Watch Marcia and Heather tag team a virtual storytime for Read Across Kenosha week.

KPL is once again co-leading the Kenosha Parks Alliance with Katherine Marks in the Mayor's office. We'll take over the Facebook page for KPA this summer. Our 6 week camps will be in Brass Community School, EBSOLA, and Lincoln Middle School. 

We have a couple of library board openings coming up. We're looking for people who will represent our more diverse neighborhoods and people with young children who can help us more fully understand the needs of young families. If you know of good people who fit those descriptions and might be willing to serve on our library board, please let me know.

As we plan our new children's library in Uptown, we'll also be looking for more membership on the KPL Foundation, especially people who are well connected with local industry, or have experience grant writing and fundraising. In other words, people who are good at raising money and not afraid to ask. If anyone comes to mind, I'd love to hear about them. Right now we have plenty of room for new members.

I'm going to see the grandkids Thursday - Monday, back Tuesday. Rob is on vacation starting Friday through all next week. I'll have phone access but Rob might not. Linda is in charge while we're gone. 

Have a great rest of the week, everyone!