Drone Club for Young Adults (14 yrs. old+).
2023-07-22 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
The Benedek Memorial Library has a drone club for ages 14+. Want to try your hand at flying a drone? Learn more about the laws governing drones? Or maybe design a course to see who can get a drone through successfully? We have two drones for young adults to share flying time and to learn on. Due to limited seating registration is required. You can register by email savona@stls.org, phone (607)583-4426, or just stop in at the Library.

Senior Coffee Hour
2023-07-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-08-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
The library will open at 10 am for our seniors. Free coffee and pastries will be available. Enjoy the company of others. There will be cards, newspapers and of course books for all to enjoy together, or just sit and visit. Meet old friends and make new friends.

Drop in Craft – Fusible bead craft
2023-07-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Make pictures with fusible beads. Open to all ages while supplies last.

Murder Mystery Dinner
2023-07-28 17:00 - 20:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Open to adults. Come and enjoy a great home cooked dinner and solve a mystery. Take on a character and try to figure out which one of your dinner mates was the murderer. Registration is required, to get a character to play. You can register by email: savona@stls.org, by phone (607)583-4426, or stop in the library during open hours. You must register by July 24 to play.

Drop in Craft – Spin Art
2023-07-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Try painting with a spin. Open to all ages while supplies last.

Make and Take: Kitty Craft.
2023-07-31 11:00 - 19:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Stop at the library and pick up a craft kit for your young one(s) through out the week. While supplies last.

Special Story Hour with music
2023-08-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Join us with the Brass section from the Orchestra of Southern Finger Lakes as they tell the story of the Tortoise and the Hare. Free event to all ages on the library lawn. Fun for families.

Sip and Paint
2023-08-04 17:00 - 20:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Sip and Paint (non- alcoholic) for young adults and adults. Have a great time painting a picture of a mushroom fairy house and enjoy a dinner and drinks. Limited seating so registration is required. You can register by email: savona@stls.org, by phone (607)583-4426, or stop in the library during open hours.

Young People’s Book Club (grades 5-8)
2023-08-09 16:30 - 17:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Reading Tidesong by Wendy Xu. Enjoy talking with others about what you are reading. There will be snacks. Registration requested due to limited books available. You can register by email: savona@stls.org, by phone (607)583-4426, or stop in the library during open hours.

From Baker and Taylor Books:
Perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli and The Tea Dragon Society, this is a magically heartwarming graphic novel about self-acceptance and friendship.
Sophie is a young witch whose mother and grandmother pressure her to attend the Royal Magic Academy—the best magic school in the realm—even though her magic is shaky at best. To train for her entrance exams, Sophie is sent to relatives she’s never met.
Cousin Sage and Great-Aunt Lan seem more interested in giving Sophie chores than in teaching her magic. Frustrated, Sophie attempts magic on her own, but the spell goes wrong, and she accidentally entangles her magic with the magic of a young water dragon named Lir.
Lir is trapped on land and can’t remember where he came from. Even so, he’s everything Sophie isn’t—beloved by Sophie’s family and skilled at magic. With his help, Sophie might just ace her entrance exams, but that means standing in the way of Lir’s attempts to regain his memories. Sophie knows what she’s doing is wrong, but without Lir’s help, can she prove herself?

Teen/Adult Book Club
2023-08-09 17:30 - 18:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Banned Book Club by Sook, Kim Hyun/ Estrada, Ryan/ Hyung-ju, Ko. This book was banned in Florida and was taken off the shelf temporarily. Check out what the book is about and have a chance to talk with others about your opinion and how it effects our current times. Registration requested due to limited books available. You can register by email: savona@stls.org, by phone (607)583-4426, or stop in the library during open hours.

From Baker and Taylor Books:
When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family’s restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined.
This was during South Korea’s Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in.
In BANNED BOOK CLUB, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading.

Last day to be able to turn in reading times for raffle tickets.
2023-08-11 14:00 - 19:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Please stop into the library between 2 pm and 7 pm to get the last of your reading time confirmed. Thank you.

Winter Reading Challenge: Adopt a Reading Buddy!
2024-02-19
Pre-K through Senior High school are encouraged to get through the winter blues by reading with a buddy. Stuffed friends are available for adoption at the Benedek Memorial Library starting February 19, through March 9, 2024. Each child who adopts a reading buddy will pledge to read for 14 hours, or 840 minutes, over 4 weeks. The Reading Challenge starts February 19, runs through March 15 with a celebration and prize drawing on March 16 at 12 pm. Participants will be able to earn raffle tickets, brag tags, and free books.

2024 Summer Reading Plus “Adventure Begins at Your Library” Sign-up Party!
2024-06-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
The Summer Reading Plus will start June 29, 2024 through August 10, 2024. Join us in our challenge to read 1200 minutes over the six-week period. Earn raffle prize tickets and free books. Come to our special events all summer long. Each week will be a new adventure theme. Check our website and Facebook page for more details around June 15, 2024. Let us start an adventure together.

Senior Coffee Hour!
2024-07-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
The library will open at 10 am for a coffee hour. Free coffee and pastries will be available. Enjoy the company of others. There will be cards, newspapers and of course books for all to enjoy together, or just sit and visit. Meet old friends and make new friends.

Family Bingo at Benedek Memorial Library
2024-07-05 18:30 - 19:30 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Join us for a fun time of playing Bingo for all ages. There will be prizes and snacks. Due to limited seating registration is encouraged. You can register by email savona@stls.org, phone (607)583-4426, or just stop in at the Library. Win prizes and have fun with friends and neighbors.

Ocean Trivia
2024-07-08 - 2024-07-13 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Ocean Trivia at the Library. Kids, stop in during the week and take the ocean trivia quiz during the Ocean adventure week. During open hours.

Young People’s Book Club (grades 5-8)
2024-07-10 16:00 - 16:30, 2024-07-24 16:00 - 16:30 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Enjoy talking with others about what you are reading. There will be snacks. Registration requested due to limited books available. You can register by email: savona@stls.org, by phone (607)583-4426, or stop in the library during open hours. This project is supported by outreach funds awarded by the southern tier library system’s Coordinated Outreach Services Advisory Council.

Drop in Crafts
2024-07-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Young people can drop in and make sharks and fish out of pool noodles. All are welcome.

Teen/Adult Paint & Sip
2024-07-12 18:30 - 21:30 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Enjoy a simple dinner while painting an ocean picture, with Director Candy, or you can paint whatever you want. Registration requested due to limited seats available. You can register by email: savona@stls.org, by phone (607)583-4426, or stop in the library during open hours. The Library will be closing early for the program. Program is full, taking names for waiting list.

Take and Make Kits
2024-07-15 - 2024-07-20 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Take and Make Kits available until end of week or gone. Young people can pick up a take and make for perler bead snakes during Jungle adventure week. During open hours.

Sr Coffee Hour!
2024-07-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House

Drop-in Craft
2024-07-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Drop-in Craft paint a wiggle snake. Young people can stop in and paint a wooden wiggly snake, while supplies last.

Drop-In Craft
2024-07-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Drop-In Craft making jungle bead animals. Young people can weave pony beads together to make a jungle animal, while supplies last.

Drawings for passes to Sterling Renaissance Festival, Seabreeze Amusement Park, and the Finger Lakes Boating Museum.
2024-07-20 13:00 - 13:15 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Please make sure you have reported your reading times before noon July 20 to get your raffle tickets in for these drawings.

Spirograph art
2024-07-22 - 2024-07-27 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Stop, at the library to try your hand at Spirograph art during Back in Time adventure week. During open hours.

Drop-in Craft
2024-07-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Drop-in Craft Shrinky Dinks and/or pebble pets. Young people can make a shrink ding charm and/or paint a pebble pet to take home and care for, while supplies last.

Teen/Adult Macramé Wall Hanging
2024-07-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Try your hand at macramé by making a simple wall hanging. Registration requested due to limited seats available. You can register by email: savona@stls.org, by phone (607)583-4426, or stop in the library during open hours. Program is full, taking names for waiting list.

Drop-in Tie Dye Fun.
2024-07-27 10:00 - 13:00 | Benedek Memorial Library in the MHJ Meeting House
Bring your own prewashed cotton shirt and see what you can create with tie dye. We will supply the dyes and do the fun outside.
