Hey everybody -- So glad so many of you were able to make it to the Teen Council Retreat on May 3rd! For those of you who couldn't come, don't worry, we'll definitely be doing this again. And we still have some t-shirts left (L and XL) so let your friendly librarian know if you need one.

The most popular ideas that came out of the retreat:

• Doing skits about the library for younger kids (Connect to Portland Parks and Recreation?)
  
• Multimedia presentation about libraries for younger kids
  
• Podcasting
• Hip-hop classes, including breakdancing -- If you know a good teacher for these, tell me who they are in the comments!
• Field Day (Jelly Beans, Musical Chairs, Pictionary) -- Someone will have to explain the 'jelly beans' part to me
• Trips: rollerskating, mini golf, go-carts, Ground Kontrol, bowling

Annica Stivers took some fabulous photos -- here are a couple:

And here's the "Books" video that debuted at the retreat!

Hello Everyone! If any of you read the blog entry posted by myself about HSASH, we now have a website if you want to know more. Our link is:

 http://home.comcast.net/~therighttype/site/?/home

If you go to our site, please contact me, leave a comment in the guest book, take our poll, and view our information and photos. Click to enlarge the photos.

-Arianne 

First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies,
Next tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

This is just a brief announcement, to announce that I, Dawlish the Auror, of Team Pomegranate, will soon be doing a Weekly Wrock Wreview.  Now, what is "Wrock", you ask?  It's short for "Wizard Rock", the coolest subgenre of music out there, because it's all about Harry Potter.  Next week, I will review the CD "Harry and the Potters and the Power of Love", by Harry and the Potters.

 
Read and Rock Out!

~Dawlish the Auror

Team Pomegranate

Hey y'all: YALSA, a cool organization (of librarians who work with teens) wants to hear from middle and high school students about their tech needs, so help them out by filling out this survey by March 31st.

Thanks!

3 of our members this month were absent from our meeting for Outdoor School counciler traing. More stuff about our writing contest. We're having trouble with poetry/stories or non fiction splits in our catergories. And who's judging the writing. Also more on the suggestions for purchase issue. (any members of Team Pomegranate feel free to elabrate on this stuff.

Team Pomegranate

This is Fantasyfreak signing off

March 5, 2008

-HILLSDALE LIBRARY TEEN COUNCIL-

EVENTS:

Mystery at the library is coming up… who did it…why…when…and how!? Come to the Hillsdale

Library April 16 to find out! Actors and actresses are wanted and teens as well!

FOOD:

On this lovely Wednesday afternoon we munched on popcorn, humongous cookies and refreshing soda. I personally indulged in a peanut butter cookie the size of my hand. It was yummy! I also had a handful of popcorn, which was also delicious and the rest of us munched more on the snacks.

CONVERSATION:

During our meeting we talked more about the teen blog (which means that we read through the majority of the posts…mostly the riddles… and looked at the pictures posted), and discussed the upcoming

Hillsdale Library Mystery at the Library event (It’s in April and everybody and anyone

reading this should come! This means YOU!). Mainly we talked about the prize that we would be giving out. We tossed around the idea of a music gift card, VISA gift card, pizza party and a few other ideas. If anyone has any recommendations feel free to post a response as we are open to ideas! We also discussed parties, mainly pizza parties and cupcake parties (I just think that cupcakes are a great reason to celebrate!).

MYSTERY IN THE LIBRARY:

So here is the much anticipated Mystery in the Library:

The story begins with a mysterious music librarian, Ms. X, being found, DEAD, in the music library on one dark and stormy night. Frank, the night janitor found poor Ms. X and reported the murder to the police. It was, after all a murder, as there was a Celine Dion CD impaled right into her chest. The CD was never the same again, unfortunately.

The police had no leads in Ms. X’s death as her life was a mystery to the town. All that anyone knew about her was that she had worked in the Hillsdale Library for the past thirty-three years and had four cats, all black. She lived in the old Victorian house on the top of Spinster’s Hill alone, except for her cats. She was remembered by many for her dowdy clothing, shapeless dresses, grey hair in a bun and with a finger to her mouth and a “shhhhhhhhhhh…” on her lips. No one could imagine anyone who would want her dead….

So now it is up to you to figure out who killed the mysterious Ms. X. Who did it out of our shady cast of characters, still yet to be introduced? Come to the Hillsdale Library to solve the mystery, have fun, meet teens and win a cool prize!!!

Hello (:

lalalal elmo world! xD

The evil bunny rabbit, whose name was not Sqwakers, but actually Gregor Phillip III, was sitting at a teen council meeting, as a man with one shoe walked by.  The man with one shoe then got eaten by a giant spaceworm made out of Cheetos with a tapioca posion pudding stomach.  The man with one shoe was tasty, but gave the worm inmdigestion.

Then Gregor got attacked by a crazy woman who grabbed his head and started rocking it from side to side.  She then gave Gregor 300 dollars.  Gregor spent the money on a brand new llama.  In fact, 6 llamas.  As Gregor was riding his llamas, the man with one shoe popped out of a hole in the ground.  This was surprising, since he was dead.  Very dead.  Then a cookie fell on him.  A pomegranate cookie.

Just then, Hedwig flew in unexpectantly.  Gregor watched Hedwig (who was NOT dead) fly by, and was suddenly able to use magic.  He then cast the greatest spell of all time: "EXPECTO PATRONUN!"  Suddenly, an army of glowing, floating nuns appeared, and they kicked Gregor in the spleen.  Gregor died.

Then the world exploded.  Everyone died.  EVERYONE.  Including Arthur and his friends.  EVERYONE.  Even Joe Normal and his buddies.  Absolutely everyone.

To be continued....

Team Pomegranate

This is the first offical post of Team Pomegranate. We are sorry for not posting any records of our meetings. This month we talked about our idea of a writing contest and the Free Comic Book Day programs. And we are considering a slumber party here. Anyway about the writing contest, we are probably going to include the whole library county. Prizes such as a Nintendo DS Lite (Nintendo Dual Screen Lite) or a bookstore gift card for multiple stores. This contest will be run later this year. Honorable mentions will get an amount of fines reduced from their account.

This is Fantasyfreak signing off

Team Pomegranate

Hello, we are the North Portland Teen Council [Squad!!!]. This is our first blog and we're having a hard time figuring out what our topic is. Anywho, we're just happy to be part of the Multnomah County library Teen Council! Although we don't have much to say today, we promise you that we'll have a lot of interesting ideas next time. So until then, we would like to know more about u!

Here's a story that the Hillsdale Teen Council has begun. Please add on to the story!

Once upon a time...

In the magical land of Chicago, a very long time ago (around 1929), there lived a turtle named Joe Average who lived in the sewers with his friends Raphael, Donnatelli, Leonardo, Monet and Picasso.

On the other side of this magical land, there lived an evil bunny rabbit with red eyes who lived in a volcano tower. He had a fighter plane and the rabbit's name was Sqwakers. One day he thought he saw a plastic beer bottle falling out of the sky. He quickly got his fighter plane and followed, speeding towards the earth towards the green blur fast approaching his windshield. He tried to quickly turn and avoid colliding with the beer bottle but he was too late. With a huge crack, a bottle of "Black Butte" grape beer sailed through his windshield...

For a long time, the evil bunny rabbit had been planning to invade the sewer that hosted Joe Average and his artistic friends. But the rabbit's life was nearly perfect. He had a house, a car, food, and evil friends to talk to. When the beer bottle fell out of the sky, the rabbit assumed that Joe Average, the turtle, threw it. This made the evil bunny rabbit very angry, and he began to devise a plan to get back at his arch nemesis.  

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1. I am something, yet nothing. What am I?

2. I represent anything and everything. What am I?

Fantasyfreak

Team Pomegranate