Thank you to our librarians for all the free events, classes, discussions and entertainment you've made available to us this past year and for "Puppylocks" on Saturday!

There is a camp just right for your child. Explore, research, talk to camp directors or owners. Read here and here and here! One popular local camp has a tour day on the 24th!

Have a great spring weekend with your families, Parmalee

Download CAMPS 2021 pdf!

The Santa Cruz Public Libraries will host Magical Moonshine Theater's bilingual performance of Puppylocks at 11 a.m. Saturday April 24th. This free puppet show will be held via Zoom, and registration is required.

Puppylocks asks WHAT IF? What if the Three Bears were really Teddy Bears! And What if Goldilocks was not a little girl at all, but a golden, mischievous little dog?

That is exactly the case is this very funny retelling of the traditional fairytale. Watch this impish little dog do everything wrong in the Bear's house while the bears are off to the Teddybear Circus! Puppylocks is presented with traditional Bohemian style marionettes on a tabletop stage. It runs about 40 minutes and includes live music and singing. The show is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Register at bit.ly/SCPL-puppylocks.

Now let me tell you how my story begins: I grow up in rural Virginia, literally dirt poor. I drop out of school in the eighth grade and have three children by the time I'm 20. I consider myself to be a reasonably modest person, but even I have to admit that's quite a journey. Continue > > >

Mount Madonna School fifth grade students have organized a CLEAN-UP CHALLENGE to inspire and help prevent waste from entering the oceans.

The rules are simple: go outside and pick up trash, use a tally form to keep track of the types of trash collected, upload a selfie with the trash you’ve collected and you will be entered into a raffle to win some great eco-friendly prizes! GO TO forms.gle/bVb4ikEeG68uPwRe6 to enter Thanks for helping us protect the ocean!

“We hope you will participate in our clean-up challenge and share our PSA video and posters far and wide so that people all over the world will be inspired to go outside and help clean up trash. “Thank you for supporting the fifth grade and helping to make the oceans a bit safer for the 100,000 marine animals that die each year from plastic.”