LAKEVIEW, Ore.—October 23, 2017— After over 25 years at the Lake County Library District, Dawn Troutman is onto the next chapter: retirement. Community members are invited to a retirement party open house at the Main Library Tuesday, October 31, 2017, from 2 – 4 PM.
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Troutman was born Placerville, California and raised in San Mateo. She moved to Lakeview with her husband, Doug, in the fall of 1978, after having lived National Parks and wilderness areas in California and Arizona. If you want a real treat, ask Dawn for stories about the bears in Yosemite.
 
Right as the library district began operation in the summer of 1991, Dawn joined the library team. “Looking back at our library facilities and services of the 1990’s compared to what we have today is a jaw-dropping wonderment,” Troutman said. “Never could I have imagined what technology and hard work has brought us.”
 
Library Director Amy Hutchinson will be sad to see her go. “Dawn has always been the memory of the library, enable to enlighten us on local history resources, treasures found and past events. We will all miss her careful attention to detail in her work as well as dedication to the library,” Hutchinson said. Hutchinson invites community members to join the library staff in wishing Dawn well during a goodbye open house on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 from 2 – 4 PM at the Main Library in Lakeview. Light refreshments will be served.
 
Troutman’s retirement plans include spending time with grandkids, one in Lakeview and one in New Zealand, reading, knitting, and working in the garden. Fortunately for the library, they also include helping to train staff taking on her duties and substituting at the library.

For more information about this program, please contact Library Director Amy Hutchinson at 541-947-6019 or amyh@lakecountylibrary.org.

The Lake County Library District is pleased to host local author Judy Blais for a reading and book signing at the Main Library in Lakeview at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Blais will be reading from, talking about, and signing her book Slow Yoga, Slow Aging, which covers her journey towards healing from rheumatoid arthritis. 
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Blais grew up in Minnesota and moved to Oregon in her mid-forties. She has been a horse trainer, a newspaper reporter, and industrial writer, and a yoga teacher. Curious about aging to begin with, she underwent a journey of discovery after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. She researched and learned to listen to her body when it came to diet and exercise. Slow Aging, Slow Yoga showcases what she learned. It also includes yoga routines to be completed in bed, in a chair, and in a hot tub.
 
This free public program is suitable for adults. Blais will read from her work and offer a short question and answer session before signing books. Copies of books will be available for purchase at the event.
 
For more information about this program, please contact Library Director Amy Hutchinson at 541-947-6019 or amyh@lakecountylibrary.org. 

The next free ride to creativity launches Saturday, October 28, 2017. PLAYA Presents has changed to the winter schedule so PLAYA Presents will begin at 3:00 PM. Please note the new bus pick up times:

• Lakeview - 1:30 PM departure. Call 541-947-6019 to reserve your seat.
• Paisley - 2:30 PM departure. Call 541-9477-6019 to reserve your seat.
• Christmas Valley - 2:00 PM departure. Call 541-943-3983 to reserve your seat. 

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PLAYA offers creative individuals the space, solitude and the community to reflect and to engage their work through its residency program in Summer Lake. PLAYA supports innovative thinking through work in the arts, literature, natural sciences and other fields of creative inquiry and encourages dialogue between disciplines to bring positive change to the environment and the world. For more information visit ​playasummerlake.org. 

The Lake County Library Endowment Fund will host Cleve Brock, musician and author, as speaker for the 2017 Library Endowment Dinner. The dinner will be held at 6:30 PM on Saturday, October 21, 2017, at the Elks Lodge. Friends of the Lake County Library will hold a no-host reception fundraiser at the new Main Library from 5 to 6 PM. 

Brock, author of Better than the Beatles, a memoir of growing up in Lake County, was born in the Lake County Hospital when it was a little rock building across from the Catholic Church. He grew up and received his public schooling in the Lake County School District achieving a G.P.A. of somewhere around 2.0. In spite of being advised by his High School Counselor to attend a trade school, the author told the counselor to shove it, and attended Southern Oregon College (not University) as a music major. 

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​Here, the author excelled and fit right into the scene in Ashland, Oregon, receiving honors (from his mom) for eventually graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in eight short years. During his college days he played rock n roll music every Friday and Saturday night while traveling on the road with his rock band.
 
The author later spent two years in Houston, Texas and learned to speak the Southern language. After mastering “Southern”, he attended college again and got a haircut. After college he traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area where he grew his hair out once again and met a California Blonde girl. They married and have six children who all play music better than, and write the English language better than, their father.
 
This year’s fundraising items include artwork, wine basket, a collection of books written by local authors, and more. Regular raffle tickets are $1 each, six tickets for $5, or arms’ length for $20. All raffle tickets sales begin on Monday, October 9, 2017 in the Main Library. You need not be present at the dinner to win raffle items.
 
Tickets to the dinner are $25 and may be purchased or reserved at the Lakeview library. No ticket or reservation is required for the no-host reception at the Main Library, which is open to all. Questions about the event may be directed to Amy Hutchinson, Lake County Library Director, at 541-947-6019.