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Last Saturday Woodland Dunes Nature Center in Two Rivers hosted their annual Owl Fest. People got up close to a variety of owls, mainly the saw-whet owl. The small saw-whet owls are captured the night before banded and released the next day.

Please click on the following link for more photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterpubliclibrary/sets/72157622483021413/

After the tour last Saturday, October 10, 2009, I will no longer take my clean water for granted. A $5.2 million upgrade and retrofit over the past two years ensures the plant is operating at high efficiencies with energy costs savings to boot!

Please follow this link to view a photo tour of the plant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterpubliclibrary/sets/72157622563180316/

Plenty of time to check out our 'Beach Reads' display, stock up and hit our local beaches!

Last weekend the weather was perfect, more is forecast through September!

Beautiful Neshotah Beach, Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

Visiting the area? 

The library offers free, wireless internet access or guest access to our internet computers. 


Feel free to stop in, check out the library and check your email.

Ask at the reference desk for more information.

The Hamilton Wood Type Museum is a real treat! Guided tours take visitors from raw hardwood maples through the process of creating wood type in many sizes and fonts.

The machinery is impressive.

The type and presses are still used!

For more information visit their Web site: http://www.woodtype.org/

Jeff was recently featured on the Out-n-About Manitowoc County show, 1240 AM WOMT, with Doug Day and Bobbi Schuetze.

 To listen to Jeff's interview, visit the Library's Web page: http://www.tworivers.lib.wi.us/index.htm

Saturday's Ethnic Festival featured good music, food, exhibits, and
shopping in downtown Two Rivers.

 
Great crowds filled downtown!

 
Cashel Dennehy School of Irish Dancing - from
Milwaukee

 
Omo-Ana Children of the Spirit of the Drum

 
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band - Jewish Celebration of
Music.

 

 
Brule - Native American Rock Opera

Please follow the link below for more photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterpubliclibrary/

Be sure to stop by the library and check out the Caricature Display by our very own Dean Konop. His work will be displayed through September.

For more information click on the link below:

http://www.dkcaricatures.com/

The newest project of the Two Rivers Historical Society (opened June 2006) displays farm equipment and other reminders of our rural farm heritage.

Visit the Historical Farm Museum on the corner of 12th Street and Monroe, just a block from the library.

A woodcarving display, by local artist Jes, will be on display through the end of August.

While in the library to check out some books, videos, magazines, books on tape, music, use our WiFi Internet connection, or use one of our Internet computers, be sure to check out this display of unique wood carvings.

Or, if you are in the library to check out the woodcarvings by Jes - check out all the items listed above!

Check out our Library Trading Card!

Collect the set (of course this is the only one in the set so far...), trade with friends.

Roger Street Days today Friday 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm and Saturday noon to 10:00 pm at the Historic Rogers Street Fishing Village, 2010 Rogers Street, Two Rivers.

This community festival and fundraiser will feature live music, smelt, food and beverages, kids games, boat building and sail making for kids, a kayak parade on the river and more!

The festival is free, including free access to the museum Friday and Saturday. For more information call 920-793-5905.

Friends of Mariners Trail are pleased to announce the fourth annual Mariners Trail-a-Thon, Fun Run, and Trailgate Party.  Please join us along with the Two Rivers and Manitowoc Park and Recreation Departments and the Manitowoc County Track Club as we present nearly a morning full of activities, including a walk along the shores of Lake Michigan, a 5-mile Fun Run also along the Lake, a radio auction of great items that were donated by local businesses, and a family Trailgate party hosted by the Recreation Departments.  Enjoy games, prizes, food and refreshments along the jewel of the lakeshore - Mariners Trail.

Last year, we had a great day along Mariners Trail.  We had more than 100 walkers, had a great radio auction, made more people aware of the trail, and raised several thousand dollars, with every dollar going back into Mariners Trail improvements.  A huge THANK YOU goes out to our walkers, volunteers, sponsors, and the Two Rivers and Manitowoc Parks and Recreation Departments.

For more information visit http://www.marinerstrail.net/trailathon.htm

Woodland Dunes is an oasis of marshland, swamps, sandy fields and meadows and wooded ridges between Manitowoc and Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

Woodland Dunes is located in a "tension zone" between two distinct areas of natural growth. Both northern and southern species of plants and birds are found here.

Located between two busy cities, this floodplain, wetland and dune-ridge area forms a green island of shrubs, grassy glades, and trees that provide a haven for wildlife...and for people.

Step beyond the cities, only a few blocks away, and enter an almost timeless environment while hiking our nature trails. Enjoy the sight of waxy, yellow buttercups, hear the clear,whistled notes of an oriole, feel the swish of the wind through the hemlocks or feel the soft breast feathers of a bluebird at the bird banding station.

Visit Woodland Dunes and share this experience. 

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located on Hwy 310 west
of Two Rivers, Wisconsin

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Saturday
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