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Featuring fine wines provided by Consumer Beverage and catering by Jack Norman Catering. Cost is $25.00 Advance Ticket Sales Only. Tickets are available at the Franklin Public Library or at Consumer Beverage - 5313 S 108th Street. Sponsored by the Friends of the Franklin Public Library

Barbara Eash is a Certified Personal Property Appraiser specializing in the appraisals of antiques and collectables. She will give a brief introduction and then she will appraise items brought in by the audience. Please bring only one item. If the item you want to bring is a larger piece of furniture, please bring a picture of it. Please no stamps or coins. Space is limited to 80 people. Registration is required for this program. Registration begins Wednesday August 15th. Please call the Franklin Public Library at 414 425-8214 to register.

Registration for Fall Children's programs are now underway. Please contact the library at 414-425-8214 or visti the library webite at www.mcfls.org/franklin for more information.

The Friends of the Franklin Public Library are sponsoring the Cooking with Class series featuring Staci Joers.

The programs are:
Basic Sushi September 27th 11:00am-2:00pm or 6:00pm-8:30pm

Afternoon Tea-Lunch'n Learn October 18th 11:00am-2:00pm

Favorite Restaurant Knockoffs October 25th 11:00am-2:00pm or 6:00pm-8:30pm

The cost for each one of these programs is $20.00. Checks may be made payable to the Friends of Franklin Public Library and sent to the Franklin Public Library 9151 W. Loomis Rd. Franklin, WI 53132 Space is limited and registration is required. You may also call the library to register 414-425-8214.

Recipes will be provided.

Another one of the series "Your Body in Balance" programs is scheduled for Wednesday September 12, 2007
from 6:30pm-8:00pm in the Franklin Public Library Fadrow Room. How do you stay motivated to continue or start the healthy lifestyle habits that are so important to your well being? At this program you will learn the strategies that you can adopt for YOUR BEST LIFE! This program is sponsored by Wheaton Franciscan, The Franklin Health Department and The Friends of Franklin Public Library. Please call the Franklin Public Library at 414-425-8214 to register for this program

The Franklin Public Library collects Campbell’s soup and other Campbell’s products labels. These labels enable to us get items for the library. When submitting Campbell’s labels, please turn in the entire soup label, for other Campbell’s products the label for education is fine to submit.

Times are changing and many of our old barns are being destroyed for “bigger and better”. Tom Laughlin producer of the DVD “Wisconsin barns: touchstones to the past” will be presenting a program at the Franklin Public Library Wednesday October 3, 2007 at 6:30pm. Mr. Laughlin will help us understand the origins of the American barn as it nurtured our development as a country and provide insights into the history and heritage we all share in them.

Some of the questions he will address:

-Why are old barns important to our country?
-Where did barns begin and why are they changing?
-How many different types of barns are there?
-Why are barns red?

The program is free and open to the public. To sign up in advance, please stop in at the library, or call 425-8214 beginning Monday, Aug. 27, 2007

What were the beer makers who made Milwaukee famous really like? Find out at the program “Beer Barons of Milwaukee” at the Franklin Public Library Monday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m.

The program features John Eastberg, senior historian at Milwaukee’s historic Pabst Mansion. He will talk about the history of the Milwaukee beer industry, and tell stories and show slides of such well-known brewers as Pabst, Schlitz, Miller and Uihlein at both work and play.

The program is free and open to the public. To sign up in advance, please stop in at the library, or call 425-8214 beginning Monday, Aug. 27, 2007

The Friends of the Franklin Public Library will be holding their Annual Book Sale September 7-9th in the Fadrow Room during regular hours

Friday 10am-5pm

Saturday 10am-5pm

Sunday 1pm-4pm
Sunday is the “Bargain Book Day” where prices are reduced.

And for those that are members of the Friends of Franklin Public Library, one of the benefits of Friends membership is being able to attend a

Friends Member Only Preview Night on Thursday September 6th from 6pm-8pm.

If you are interested in volunteering to help sort and staff the book sale, please call the library information desk 414-425-8214

Thursday, October 11 at 7 pm Colin O'Brien (lead singer of the group Salt Creek) "Rails and Trails - Song and Stories of the Frontier" This is a Family Program all ages are welcome. No registration is required

Rondini is a full-time professional magician with almost 30 years of performance experience. His library shows always entertain the record number of children and adults that attend his shows. He includes magic to music, balloon animals, audience participation, live animals including a 40" parrot and a live bunny and a drawing of a library book which comes to life!! The book explains some important library rules such as taking care of the books checked out and returning the materials on time. Rondini will show how libraries are "magical" places as he got his start in magic at age 12 by reading a book from the Menasha library, something he like to mention at all of his library shows

Franklin Public Library Family Programs are designed for the whole family to attend and perhaps participate. What a great way for a family to spend the evening together from grandparents, to parents and children. The library sponsors family programs once a month during the school year. Registration is NOT required for this FREE program.