TD Summer Reading Club Kick Off

Markham Libraries Summer Reading Program

Keep the kids reading all summer long in this fun, free reading club!  

Read (or be read to) at home or in the library and then talk to us about what you've been reading.  Participate at any branch except Thornhill Community Centre (currently under renovation).  Visit your branch for details. Join us for fun games and activities as we kick off the TD Summer Reading Club.  Pick up your reading package and get a head start!
  
 
Locations:

Angus Glen: Saturday, June 26, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Milliken Mills: Monday, June 28, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Markham Village: Saturday, June 26, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Unionville: Wednesday, June 30, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

More info

Summer Saturday's – Animation Workshops and Screenings for Families

The long weekend is just around the corner, and that means that the NFB's Summer Saturdays animation workshops are starting! Every Saturday in July and August, the NFB Mediatheque is offering hands-on animation workshops for children ages 3-5 and 6-13. Each child is only $5 per workshop, and parents can attend for FREE! 

Enjoy NFB's 'Can't Sit Still' and 'Animate This!' workshops for families, along with a free screening program. Each week, we'll feature a different theme and animation technique. No previous filmmaking experience required!

Schedule for each Saturday:
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Can’t Sit Still (ages 3 – 5)
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Screening program
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Animate This! (ages 6 – 13)

Register for only $5 per child, per session (an adult, at no extra charge, must accompany children). Call 416-973-3012 to register.

Full program details

FREE Photo shoot at Lionel's Pony Farm and Petting Zoo!

Picture This Portrait Studio is welcoming children of all ages to come out to Lionel's Pony Farm and Petting Zoo to take some cool and fun pictures. You’ll receive...

No Sitting Fee and 1 artistically edited Digital Image for FREE (sample photo).

1 Image per Family. A DVD with all the photos (10-15) is available for $20.

$5 from every DVD is donated to Lionel's Pony Farm & Petting Zoo.

• June 16 & 17, 2010
• 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
• Lionel's Pony Farm & Petting Zoo, 11714 McCowan Road, Stouffville
• Free!
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City of Toronto Play Areas Now Smoke-free

When you and your children visit a City of Toronto park playground, wading pool, splash pad, park zoo or farm, remember that under the amendment to the Municipal Bylaw, Chapter 608, smoking is not allowed within a 9 metre or 29.5 foot radius of play areas including:

• The surrounding edge of any playground safety surface or playground equipment. 
• The surrounding edge of wading pool basins or safety surfaces of splash pads.  
• There are over 833 playgrounds in Toronto parks. Here’s some reasons why City park play areas are smoke-free:  
• Second-hand smoke harms your child’s growing body.  
• Seeing a caregiver or loved one smoking increases the chance your kids will try smoking.  
• Young children could eat toxic cigarette butts or choke on them.  
• Your child has more smoke-free places to play, now that both the schools and Parks, Forestry & Recreation playgrounds ban smoking.  
• Cigarette butts release harmful toxins into the ground and take a long time to decompose or biodegrade.  
• Be a good role model – be smoke-free.