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Directed by Jodie Foster, Home for the Holidays is a funny, adult take on a dysfunctional holiday with families as they really are - struggling to reconcile their connection to and love for people they misunderstand and dislike. Claudia Larson's (Holly Hunter) life is a mess. She goes home for Thanksgiving to her chain-smoking mom (Anne Bancroft), oblivious dad (Charles Durning), martyr sister, Joanne (Cynthia Stevenson), gay brother, Tommy (Robert Downey, Jr), and others. A giant turkey, loud children, built-up resentment, and alcohol lead to a colossal family breakdown. This is not Norman Rockwell, but it is a hilarious, humane look at flawed families trying to figure things out.

Babies and their families are invited to share songs, rhymes, bouncing games, finger plays, and short stories at this early literacy event. Following the program, there's time for play with developmentally appropriate toys and socializing for both parents and children. The program is designed for children aged 3-24 months, and occurs on the first and third Friday of each month.

Do you want to improve your reading? Do you know someone who needs to learn to read? Reading is essential not only as a leisure activity but for success in all aspects of everyday life. Key areas where reading is very important include finding employment, finding housing, and using social services. Should you sign a cell phone agreement or apartment lease if you can’t read it? How do you fill out a job application without being able to fully understand the job description and employee responsibilities? In Humboldt County, an estimated 13,800 adults are functionally illiterate; they read below a fifth-grade level. Another 23,000 people in our county read below an eighth-grade level. Since 1985, Humboldt Literacy Project has been matching adult learners with trained tutors. Stop by and find out how you can be a part of it!

Fortuna Library Book Club meets the first Wednesday of the month. November's book discussion is on "The Welsh Girl" by Peter Davies. All adults welcome. December's book will be "Grant" by Ron Chernow.

Need some recommendations for new books to read? Want to share a great new read with someone? This casual community gathering discusses books, shares recent reads, and offers new suggestions of titles to read. No mandatory reading is required, just a love of reading.

The book to be discussed this month is 'Pachinko' by Min Jin Lee. Have you read it? Drop in and join the discussion!

County offices are closed today

Members of the Board of Supervisors:
REX BOHN
1st District / Vice Chair
ESTELLE FENNELL
2nd District
MIKE WILSON
3rd District
VIRGINIA BASS
4th District
RYAN SUNDBERG
5th District / Chair
Responsibilities:
The County of Humboldt is a general law county. The Board of Supervisors, which serves as the legislative and executive body of county government and many special districts, is comprised of 5 full-time members elected by their respective districts.

Garberville Library is proud to host Northern California Natives Ricky Frank (Yurok, Pomo, Cashia) & his son Henry Frank (Yurok, Pomo, Cashia, Kurok). They will be telling Native stories, using a drum. Refreshments will be served.

The Invention of Wings is Sue Monk Kidd's masterpieces of courage, hope, and the will to speak truth, all viewed through the entwined lives of the Sarah and Angelina Grimke and their nineteenth-century Charleston-plantation slaves, Hetty "Handful" and her mother, Charlotte. Their shared quest for independent, guilt-free, love-touched lives over four decades is rocked by cataclysm. The Grimke sisters become early pioneers in the abolition and women's rights movements, but not without great loss and sorrow, courage and self-discovery, ostracism and betrayal. This is a storytelling triumph that fully confronts the debilitating wound of slavery on Americans through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression touch every heart.

Babies and their families are invited to share songs, rhymes, bouncing games, finger plays, and short stories at this early literacy event. Following the program, there's time for play with developmentally appropriate toys and socializing for both parents and children. The program is designed for children aged 3-24 months, and occurs on the first and third Friday of each month.

Kids have fun and build confidence as they read to an interested, uncritical four-footed friend.

Drop by to use our button-maker to make pins and magnets with your own special designs on them! Draw, collage, or print your own artwork and use a template to make it the right size for a button or magnet.

Swing by Trinidad Library for for an evening of night-time stories to wrap up your day. Children are encouraged to wear pajamas & bring a snuggly toy or blanket, but it's not required!