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HEALTH SHELF

Did you know we have a new Health Shelf? The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library has partnered with the Kennebunkport Public Health Department to add a new Health Shelf by the circulation desk.

Books on a wide range of topics, many from the Mayo Clinic, from heart and brain health to aging, will be available for extended checkout.

There is also a suggestion box in case you would like to see other titles added.

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – LUNCHTIME BOOK GROUP

Your Health Matters Book Club

Join us Tuesday, February 13 at 12 PM. Louis T. Graves Memorial  Public Library and the Kennebunkport Public Health Department invite you to participate in a lunchtime book discussion of “Sober Curious” by Ruby Warrington. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Not able to read the book before this date? You may still join the discussion. Feel free to bring your lunch. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport.

 

 

 

For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – LUNCHTIME BOOK GROUP

Your Health Matters Book Club

Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library and the Kennebunkport Public Health Department invite you to participate in a lunchtime book discussion on The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly, by Margareta Magnusson on Tuesday, March 12 at 12 PM. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Not able to read the book before this date? You may still join the discussion. Feel free to bring your lunch. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport.

 

 

For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – LUNCHTIME BOOK GROUP

Your Health Matters Book Club

Tuesday, October 17 at 12 PM. Your Health Matters Book Club. Louis T. Graves Memorial  Public Library and the Kennebunkport Public Health Department invite you to participate in a lunchtime book discussion of The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments, by Hadley Vlahos R.N. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Not able to read the book before this date? You may still join the discussion. Feel free to bring your lunch. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

 

 

For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – LUNCHTIME BOOK GROUP

Your Health Matters Book Club

Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library and the Kennebunkport Public Health Department invite you to participate in a lunchtime book discussion on Prescription for Admission, by Monique Nugent on Tuesday, November 14 at 12 PM. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Not able to read the book before this date? You may still join the discussion. Feel free to bring your lunch. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport.

 

 

For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

Thursday, February 9 at 9:30 am. In Case of Emergency, What to Expect When You Call for an Ambulance

Presenters Dean Auriemma, KEMS Public Relations and James Stockman, Chair of the KEMS Board of Directors, will provide information on when to call an ambulance, what to expect when it arrives and more.

FMI please call (207) 967-2778.

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – LUNCHTIME BOOK GROUP

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Tuesday, April 18 @ 12:00 pm in the Community Room to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  Bring your lunch and talk with us about “food swaps.”

 

Copies of this book will be available at the Library. Not able to read the book before the discussion? Come anyway and enjoy lunch and conversation with us!

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – BOOK GROUP

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Wednesday, January 18th at 9:45 am to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  For the month of January, we will be reading To Love and Be Loved, A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey. Copies will be available at the Library. Not able to read the book before the discussion? Please feel free to join us and learn more about this month’s book pick.  Help set the course for a healthy and safer you!

 

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – BOOK GROUP

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Wednesday, November 16 @ 9:30 am to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  For the month of November, we will be reading Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff : Declutter, downsize, and move forward with your life by Mike Paxton and Jordan Michael Smith. Copies will be available at the Library. Not able to read the book before the discussion? Please feel free to join us and learn more about this month’s book pick.  Help set the course for a healthy and safer you!

POLYPHARMACY PROGRAM

Are you aware that if you take five or more medications daily you are at an increased risk of unintentional consequences?  Please join us on Wednesday, March 29 @ 9:00 am in the Community Room for a very important program on Polypharmacy. 

Sydney Springer, Pharm.D., MS, BCPS, BCGP, is an Assistant Professor at the University of New England School of Pharmacy.  She will be here to discuss ways you can prevent the risks of medication consequences and how to become a more informed health consumer. 

This program is hosted by the Kennebunkport Public Health Department and Graves Library.  Light refreshments will be served.

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