September Days

The days may grow short when we reach September, but at the Fosston Community Library Arts Center, those short days are packed with plenty of activity.

School is starting, and music lesson will be resuming at the arts center. There will be an additional piano instructor this year. D’wana Carroll will be available with lessons for beginners and intermediate students. D’wana, who lives in Erskine, has played piano since she was five and has given lessons in a variety of places, most recently the Win-E-Mac school. She is a graduate of North Central University in Minneapolis with a B.S. degree in music and religious education. Her phone number is : 612-670-4522; email: dwana.carroll@gmail.com  Other instructors available for lessons are Jeff Menten, (violin, viola, cello, mandolin, upright bass and guitar)  218-255-0087 or jeffmentenmusic@hotmail.com; Kay Carlsen (piano) - aagekay@gvtel.com or 435-6710; and  Molly Peltier (piano and flute) mkcrane@gmail.com or 435-1200.

If you are interested in lessons for your child or for yourself, there will be an open house on Sunday, September 9, 3-5 p.m. Come and meet the instructors, sign up for lessons and enjoy some refreshments. If you can’t make the open house, feel free to contact the instructors directly.

The photography of Lynette Ross is currently on display at the Sorenson Gallery. There will be an artist’s reception for Lynette on Thursday, September 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Potter Tom Daly of Bemidji will be having an exhibit in the gallery beginning Sept. 24. Daly came to Bemidji from Rochester in the mid-80s to study art at BSU. He teaches pottery at the Headwaters School of Music and the Arts.

On Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. there will be a special program at the library entitled “A Minnesota Love Story.” Come hear how two teenagers, parted during the 50s because of an unplanned pregnancy, reconnected years later and how they found their long-lost birth daughter.

September also brings the resumption of book club on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. The book is Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. It’s the story of two families changed by a heartbreaking injustice.

Writers’ group will meet on Tuesday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. If you haven’t been there, don’t be intimidated. Feel free to visit and see what goes on, and if you wish to share a sample of your writing, that’s okay too. That same evening at 6:30, the adult coloring group will meet so perhaps you want to check that out and then stay for writers’ group.
Family Fun Time will resume in September with Legos, bingo, puzzles, games and crafts. Children under the age of seven must be accompanied by a responsible caregiver age 12 or older