Learn How to Change to Help the Environment - Marketplace of Ideas
Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 15:59
Learn about how individuals and communities can respond to the pressures of climate change and the exhaustion of the earth's fuel sources at this year's Marketplace of Ideas series of events. Discover more about these environmental challenges with three events to be held at Yarra Plenty Regional Library branches in June. The events will feature expert speakers and representatives of local transition town groups. Phil . . . more »
Yarra Plenty Regional Library is gracing the front of a Yarra Trams tram to support the Good Friday Appeal. The Good Friday Appeal is celebrating its 80th year, and to mark this significant milestone Yarra Trams donated 80 tram faces for a month to showcase supporters of the Royal Children's Hospital. YPRL donated $250 to the Good Friday Appeal to be on a tram. The . . . 
All children are invited to the new Auslan Tale and Sign Storytime to be held at Watsonia Library once a month. The interactive storytime features two storytellers. A librarian will read the stories while they are being signed by an Auslan interpreter. The signed storytime will take place on one Saturday a month from 2.00pm until 3.00pm on the following dates: 7 May 4 June . . . 
Attention all writers. It's time to enter this annual short story competition held in memory of the great writer and former resident of Eltham, Alan Marshall. Nillumbik Shire Council, in partnership with Yarra Plenty Regional Library, invites writers from across Australia to enter the competition. Winning stories will be announced and read at an awards ceremony in August as well as published in the Diamond . . . 
Library visitors can now donate to assist people affected by the huge 9 magnitude earthquake and more than 7 metre tsunami, which hit north east Japan in March. The donations will go to the Australian Red Cross, which is part of an international support team helping people affected by the disaster. The donation tins at all YPRL branches have been organised by members of the . . .