Valentines Day Cake Auction: Bid at the library, or on the library’s Facebook page. Winners announced after 5pm. This is a capital campaign fundraiser: help make PML accessible!
“Bee Friendly” Intro to Pollinators! Learn about Bees and other pollinators and their role in the environment. A 4-H workshop for kids 11am-12pm run by University Maine Extension Office 4-H presenters Sandy Parsons and Jane Bell, prior registration required. Workshop limited to first 12 to confirm. Call Tara at 255-3345 to reserve a space today.
Learn about worms and composting using worms. Kids make their own worm bin to take home and learn about caring for their worm bins. A 4-H workshop for kids 11am-12pm run by University Maine Extension Office 4-H presenter Sandy Parsons, prior registration required. Workshop limited to first 12 to confirm. Call Tara at 255-3345 to reserve a space today.
Book Delivery Service Call 255-3933
Kids workshop 11am-12pm downstairs with Children’s Librarian Stephen Copel. Participants will build a small robot that moves on it’s own out of a toothbrush, watch battery and small motor. Kids will customize their designs and try to create a robot that can collect the most objects on their game board. Open to 3rd grade and up, workshop open to first 12 participants.
Bring a poem to share!
Award-winning journalist Joyce Kryszak will talk about the journalist’s duty to bring facts to light in her presentation “An Inconsistent Truth: Finding Truth’s Through-Line: at Porter Memorial Library on Feb. 22 at 6pm. Admission FREE, open to the public.
Valentines Day Cake Auction: Bid at the library, or on the library’s Facebook page. Winners announced after 5pm. This is a capital campaign fundraiser: help make PML accessible! Postponed from 13th, bidders may bid at the library or online at our Facebook page.
Ruth Fenton talks about her new book “It’s 3 a.m.” 
5pm-6pm Porter Memorial Library Machias
Sponsered by Maine Arts Commission and Porter Memorial Library. At Machias Veterans Home.
Machias’ Porter Memorial Library will offer a screening of “Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds” on Saturday, March 30. The showing will take place at the University of Maine at Machias Performing Arts Center at 2 p.m.
“Lobster War” is an award-winning feature film about a climate-fueled conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the Revolutionary War. The disputed 277-square-miles of sea, known as the “Gray Zone”, were traditionally fished by U.S. lobstermen. But as the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than nearly any other body of water on the planet, the area’s previously modest lobster population has surged. As a result, Canadians have begun to assert their sovereignty, warring with the Americans to claim the bounty. The gray zone stretches from Cutler to Jonesport, and the film features interviews with some local fishermen.
The event will also feature a lobster raffle and a bake sale. All proceeds from those items and ticket sales will go to support the library’s annual operating fund. Tickets are $5 per person, and may be purchased online here or by visiting the library at 92 Court Street, Machias. Call 207-255-3933 for more information. To learn more about the film, visit lobsterwar.com.