Feb 16

Written by: Joe Longo
Saturday, February 16, 2008 

Ontario has a new public holiday called “Family Day” to be celebrated on the third Monday of February. Our Library will be closed on Feb. 18.

Ontarians are encouraged that day to spend some quality time with family and loved ones and to enjoy some of Ontario's favourite attractions. There is nothing more valuable to families than time together. And yet it seems tougher than ever to find, with so many of us living such busy lives.

Check out the Ministry of Tourism's Winter in Ontario website for all kinds of fun ideas at www.ontariotravel.net/winter

Throughout the year many residents borrow library books to discover new nooks and crannies of our area. Just published last year was “Niagara seasons” featuring photographs, paintings and text by Mary Friesen.

“Frommer's Niagara region” shows the world-wide importance of our area when this major travel publisher released this guidebook in 2006.

“Crush on Niagara : the definitive wine tour guide” by Andrew Brooks is one of many books about our local wineries.

One of the new Thomas Cook Travellers series is “Ontario & Quebec including Toronto”. Niagara Falls and environs are included.

The fifth edition of “Toronto” in the Colourguide series is a handy-to-carry informative guidebook to bring to our capital city.

Prolific author Ron Brown has published many successful guidebooks including “50 unusual things to see in Ontario”, “50 even more unusual things to see in Ontario”, “Ontario's secret landscapes”, “Ontario's vanished villages”, “Backroads of Ontario” and “Ghost towns of Ontario: a field guide”.

Many can identify with Sue Lebrecht’s book “I hate winter: A guide to winter outings in Ontario”. “Naturally Ontario” by Betty Zyvatkauskas explores our province’s wild places such as the Kortright Centre, Crawford Lake and the Grand River.

Published last year was Dale LeFevre’s “The spirit of play” which describes cooperative games, both seated and active for all ages, sizes, and abilities in your family.

Whenever the library is closed you can still use the book return slots and visit anytime the library website www.nfpl.library.on.ca to search the catalogue and databases, place reserves, loan renewals and much more.