Resolution Help

Does your New Year’s resolutions include diet and exercise? Come to the Muskoka Lakes Public Library in Port Carling to check out some instructional books and DVDs. If you have target areas that you want to work on then Legs or Abs and Buns exercise DVDs may be what you are looking for to help you fulfill your promises to yourself. For a more general exercise regime try You: Staying Young Workout DVD.

There are plenty of exercise books too. T’ai chi for beginners, Strength training for seniors, The anytime, anywhere exercise book, Walkshaping: indoors or out, 6 weeks to a better body are just a few of the many choices shelved by Dewey decimal number 613.7. Healthy eating books are as plentiful as the calories in all those holiday treats and can be found within the 641.5 cookbook section of the library.

Did you get an iPod for Christmas? Learn how you can download audiobooks for free using your Muskoka Lakes Public Library card. Log on to the library website found at www.muskoka.com/library and click on the electronic resources tab. Scroll down to the Overdrive database, follow the instructions for downloading and you will have thousands of books to choose from and all of them free!

Another valuable (and free!) item has been added to the Muskoka Lakes Public Library’s electronic resources. Tumble Book and Tumble Talking Book will allow your children to view and listen to books on the computer in formats that will educate as well as entertain. Check it out on the electronics resource tab at www.muskoka.com/library.

Creative Kids Club for children 8+ at the library in Port Carling every Saturday at a new time 1:00pm to 2:30pm January 15 – March 15, 2011. FREE but please pre-register as space is limited. 765-5650.

Kniterary Thursday afternoons at 1:00 Bring your knitting project or other needlework project to the library and socialize with other crafters. Discuss what you are reading or what you would like to read while enjoying the company of others over a cup of tea. All welcome!

Pre-school story time Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 Muskoka Lakes Library, Port Carling

The Book Club meets in the afternoon on the last Tuesday of every month from September through April. January’s selection is The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchett. All welcome!