See the Magic, Find out about the gardening 2 PM today

[Betsy Voinovich]

Hi all--

The kids are all excited about the big free magic show at the library, so I decided I'd post it for anyone like me who tends to miss things like this.

The following is the description from the online Events calendar on the front page of the Lakewood Observer site.

SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: See The Magic, Touch the Magic
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Richard W. McClendon II invites you to examine everything he does very closely. You still won’t catch him. This sophisticated afternoon of magic begins with simple card tricks and quickly progresses to edge-of-your-seat feats of transformation, disappearance and mind control. Did you just see that?

My eleven year old thought he was too cool for this until he got to the "mind control" part of the description, now he wants to go, and he's bringing (I'm bringing) his friends.

Betsy Voinovich

P.S. If you're not a big mind control fan, you can drop your kids at the main auditorium and head on over to the multipurpose room at the library for.... the LEAF Open House-- another event I was meaning to go to, but had forgotten about. This description is also from online, on the front page of the Lakewood Observer site, Events Calendar. We'll be stopping in there after the magic show, if we aren't all hypnotized.

LEAF Open House
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
If you care about healthy, local food and building community then join us at the Lakewood Earth And Food (LEAF) Community Open House 2011 to find out more about the LEAF Community, our programs, and sign up for volunteer opportunities during the growing season. You can even sign up for a plot in one of our five community gardens. (I think we're going to do this. B.V.) This is also a great opportunity to show your support for small sustainable farmers from our region by signing up for a Community Supported (CSA) share or purchase some bulk goods (e.g. locally produced grains and cereals). And, if you are inspired to learn more after all of this talk about local food, don't forget to pick up a flier about LEAF's Third Thursday educational series as well!

LEAF Open House 2011 is on March 20, 2011 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm in the Multipurpose room of the Lakewood Library, Main Branch.

[Betsy Voinovich]

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The library was packed for the magic show today. The little kids ended up sitting on the floor up front. Mr. McClendon, the magician, had a lot of good advice for them.

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Mr. McClendon told the audience not to assume that they knew what was behind anybody's hands ever. (Yeah, he didn't do some kind of sideways flotation thing, my I-phone printed the first one right side up, the second one sideways, didn't figure out that magic today.)

LEAF was great. More to come from people who weren't at the library with 8 kids. (not all mine.)

Betsy Voinovich