Connecting NY, WA, and Afghanistan at Summitview Branch Library (WA)

This year, the Yakima Valley Libraries welcome community members to learn how a neighbor’s life–and perhaps their lives–are connected to those in Afghanistan. Cynthia Garrick, Reference Services Librarian at the Yakima Valley Libraries, let us know about their compelling event this September:

As part of the September Project at Yakima Valley Libraries, Dr. Ken Zontek, history instructor at Yakima Valley Community College, will describe his perspective on 9/11, its relationship to his subsequent Afghan deployment as an Army officer, and post-deployment effort to improve Afghan lives working with a women’s shelter in Afghanistan.

His talk is entitled “From Big Apple to Apple Capital to Afghanistan; Emotion, Reason and Commitment” and will take place on September 11 at 6:30 at the Summitview Branch Library.

If you’re in Yakima this September, be sure to visit the library!

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The September Project at Gonzaga University

Theresa Kappus, distant services librarian at Foley Center Library at Gonzaga University, recently posted to the listserv to share their September Project events.

On September 11, 2008, Foley Library will be sponsoring a reading stage performance of Reed McColm’s Hole in the Sky. Reed McColm is a local playwright who’s award-winning play “explores the lives of various people trapped in the towers on Sept. 11, as they try to understand, escape, reach loved ones and, ultimately, survive or surrender. This poignant piece uses touching and real moments to paint a picture of one of the most significant days in American history.”

This event is being organized in collaboration with Ignite! Community Theatre which is producing the play as part of their Booklight Reader’s Theatre season.

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