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Upcoming Programs
Children's
and Youth Program Schedules
Saturday, October 21 at 10am Keep
Friendswood Beautiful presents Native Plants Gardening Workshop.
Keep Friendswood Beautiful has engaged Lauren Simpson to speak on
"Easy Tips for Gardening with Native Plants in Your Own
Backyard". Make plans to attend her presentation, receive handouts
on creating your own native garden habitat and obtain some native
seeds. She will share her ideas on creating a pollinator-friendly
(bees, butterfly, birds) habitat. Register by October 18th. Register
online at friendswood.com.
Wednesday,
October 25 at 7pm Ghosts
of Galveston: Author Kathleen Shanahan Maca will be at Friendswood
Library to share stories from her book Ghosts of Galveston published
by Haunted America in 2016.
Thursday, October 26th at 6:20pm: Friendswood Library Flicks
presents Arrival
starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker. Directed
by Denis Villeneuve in 2017. This film is rated PG-13 and runs 116
minutes.Movie
Night schedule.
Saturday,
October 28 from 10am to noon SCORE Free
Workshop - Funding Sources: Simple Steps To Funding
Where
can I learn about business funding tips?
Financing
your business is one of the most important issues facing small
businesses today. Learn about the various sources of funds in the
marketplace, the best place to start, what lenders look for when
reviewing a lending application and the key ingredients for success when
borrowing money.
The
workshop will also cover sources of equity and how to use equity as an
alternative to borrowing funds. Flyer
Saturday,
October 28 at 7pm Author David Cowen (and
a cast of local poets) will read from his book of historical
Galveston Cemetery poems, The Seven Yards of Sorrow. Event
Flyer
Tuesday, October 31 from 1pm to 3pm Workforce
Solutions Free Job Search Seminar - Making
Connections. 80% of jobs do not get advertised!
Learn techniques to access the "hidden" job market, leverage
social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), and make effective phone
calls. No registration required. Just come. Seminar
Schedule
Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm:
Friends of the Library
Book Club
will discuss Interpreter
of Maladies by
Jhumpa Lahiri.
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