Community Service Opportunity Sept 27 and 28

Cora, of the Lincoln County Health Offices, needs your help.  Friday and Saturday, September 27 & 28, she is spearheading a mobile packing event at the Ruidoso Convention Center.

You may recall from an earlier post, Cora has been (and continues to!) collecting donations of hard-to-recycle products for the non-profit, Feed My Starving Children.  Both Charity Navigator and Guidestar have reports on the organization, if you are interested.

This is the Mobile Packing Event alluded to back on June 17th.  The short video below introduces you to what to expect.  It is also part of a longer playlist about Feed My Starving Children.  Please contact Cora to let her know how many volunteers (or how many hour(s) and which day(s)) you plan to attend.

Mobile Packing events need at least 500 volunteers to sign up for 2-hour shifts to pack at least 100,000 food packs (which is a lot of fun and not as much as it sounds).  So log in and sign up soon, to let Cora know it is possible.  If you wish to register as a family or group, great, and ballpark estimates are acceptable, not written in stone.  There are minimum child-to-adult ratios, but all ages are welcome.





Please visit the website for information about jewelry (probably don't wear optional items), allergies (such as soy, rice, or potatoes) or any other questions.  For a flyer to explain the program, check here. Seated jobs and stations are available, as are volunteer opportunities for blind.

Partnering with Lincoln County Health

Cora at the Lincoln County Health Offices, next door to the library, would love your help.

She collects specific recyclables for a group called TerraCycle Personal Care and Beauty Brigade for the benefit of Feed My Starving Children.  Cora is also planning a Mobile Packing event for Ruidoso this Fall.  A later blogpost will share the details for that event as they become available.

The idea is: collecting these items earns money.  TerraCycle then contributes that money to Feed My Starving Children.  FMSC meals cost less than a quarter (22 cents).  Each item submitted from the list below earns two (2) pennies for FMSC.

This is a win-win situation.  You can recycle your disposables while helping a charity.  TerraCycle finds buyers to reuse the plastics in paving stones for your garden among other items.

Cora is collecting the following recyclables at the Lincoln County Health Center (105 Kansas City Rd, Ruidoso, NM  88345).  If you have other ideas for displaying a collection container, please post a comment below.

lipstick cases
mascara tubes
eye shadow cases
shampoo bottles  (including caps, triggers
conditioner bottles
bronzer cases
foundation packaging
body wash containers
soap tubes
soap dispensers
lotion dispensers
shaving foam tubes (not cans)
powder cases
chapstick tubes
lotion tubes
face soap dispensers
face lotion jars
eyeliner cases
eyeliner pencils
eyeshadow tubes
concealer tubes or sticks
hair gel tubes
hair paste jars
lip liner pencils

NB: Hair spray cans, nail polish bottles, and nail polish remover bottles are not acceptable.

300th blog post! Garden Club plant sale this Saturday!

Back in March (on the first day of Spring this year, in fact) Ruidoso Public Library's blog celebrated it's fourth blogoversary (or anniversary of the first blog post).  Thank you for reading with us or joining us, sending us to friends, or subscribing by email.

I hope this blog connects with you.  I am so happy when a blog reader, during a visit, mentions reading about a library service or event here.

If you have any suggestions to help the library reach more (non-)readers in Lincoln County, please comment below, email, or call us.

This Saturday, June 1, join the Lincoln County Garden Club from 9 am to noon in front of Ruidoso Public Library.  They are selling small herbs and flowers to get your garden growing.  This is a fundraiser to support the xeriscaped gardens maintained by the Lincoln County Garden Club at the library and the hospital.

Visit early for the best selection.  Stay to chat with local gardening experts about your Lincoln County gardening questions.

P.S. Ruidoso Public Library is closed today to observe Memorial Day.  We will open Tuesday at 9 am.  The website and our online services, Gale, Overdrive, Mango, Universal Class, and Heritage Quest for Genealogy, are still available.  Why not visit them on our e-branch tab?

Recycling, Climate Change, & Peace Day in Lincoln County

For those of you, who, like me, forgot that yesterday was Talk like a Pirate Day, no fear.  There are many more events of note this week.

Here at Ruidoso Public Library, Sharon has two events this Thursday and Friday.  Thursday is CarFree; if you have the luck of a sidewalk that connects you safely to work, school, or shopping, give a walk a try.  Sharon invites you to attend an event at 2pm, here, when Robert Harper will talk about climate change.  I just read Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers, (also available here) myself.

Friday at 10 am, local celebrity, J. Miller will demo the Kill-a-Watt devices you may check out for three weeks to make your own energy efficiency decisions.

September 21 is Peace Day with a walk for children around the Links.

photo by MarkHaertl on Flickr

And, best of all, Friday and Saturday: Ol' Tire Amnesty!  If you have tires to dispose of, go to All American Park in the Downs.  They also take old pots and pans, less than 17" across.  For the latest information on waste and recycling in Lincoln County, check the Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/#!/Greentreeswa.