FREE - Covid-19 Rapid Test Kits. No registration required.
FREE - 'Aging in New Brunswick' (English & French editions)
FREE - Seeds - while they last!
Weekly Wednesdays Summer Kids Program
for grades K to 5
Starts July 10th from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Books, crafts, games.
Preregistration is required. Free!
Please call the library at 506 488-3971 to register.
July 10th Theme: Music to My Ears
July 17th Theme: Dinosaurs
Weekly Thursdays Tech Day:
Beginning July 11th.
The summer students will be available to help you conquer your challenges with technology - whether it's about your cell phone, ipad, or other devices. One-on-one support will be given. Call to book a time on Thursdays.
Jigsaw Puzzle Swap
Saturday, August 17
drop off puzzles from 9 to 9:30 a.m.
Choose your 'new to you' puzzle at 9:45 a.m.
(Bring in 5, take 6 - Bring in 10, take 10)
This event is FREE of charge!
Coffee and Cards' will be back in the Fall!
Chess: Open to all - drop in anytime!
Every Saturday afternoon from 1-4 p.m.
Lakeview Bookworms Book Club meet the 3rd Wednesday of each month
from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Everyone welcome!
We do not meet during July and August - see you in September!
Please see the three pages on our 'book club' for more information.
Business Owners:
If you have brochures, menus or business cards, we can display them for you in our Visitor Information Centre.
See 'Tourism' pages on our website: Where to Eat; Where to Stay; Things To Do
Let us know if you want any changes/additions made to these pages.
Community Project: Book of Obituaries
Family and Friends of Locals
This record of past lives of those who lived in this area is put together by you and other community members. We encourage your participation. Feel free to add obituaries of friends and relatives and place them in alphabetical order, using the A to Z dividers. Use the plastic sheets if necessary. This is a small way that we can commemorate the memory of those who have lived in this area in the past. We hope that it might help genealogists in the future. See "BOOKS - Local History Books - Part 1 - Genealogy - People."
Book Memorials
You can have a personalized book-plate made in someone's memory.
Also, we will make a book-plate with the donor's name in a second book.
You can donate certain books or we can choose books that you feel are suitable.
A volunteer or student will arrange for you to receive a tax receipt for your donation.
Thank you for supporting the Cambridge-Narrows Regional Library.
Our collection of Cambridge-Narrows School yearbooks is lacking the years:
1977,1982, 1988, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
If you have copies you wish to donate to the Library, it would be appreciated.
They will be kept in the 'Local History' section of your Library.
Stories about Locals
We would like to start up a new collection of stories for the Local History Section. If anyone is interested in writing an article about a local person, we'd love to hear from you. Your essay/article can be long or short - with or without photographs. This will be a long-term, on-going project. They will be kept in a special binder in alphabetical order. You could write about your friend or neighbour or even yourself and your own family. It doesn't have to be highly detailed. You might have stories about the way things were in this area in the past. Let us know if you're interested in this. Thanks.
Seed Library for Spring of 2024 is OPEN NOW!
Thanks to Horizon, NB we will have another Seed Library this year. It is supported by the Community Food Action Program through Cultivating Community Connections with the Grand Lake Wellness Network and the Cambridge-Narrows Regional Library. Thank you, Jennifer (Jenny) May.
Free vegetable and herb seeds will be available to members of our Library until supplies last.
Membership is FREE!
What is a seed library?
Seeds will be given to the public, free of charge, with an aim to create greener spaces, encourage people to grow their own healthy vegetables and herbs, promote food security, and facilitate community learning.
How to borrow seeds
It’s easy! Sign up and become a member of the library (membership is free). Members can choose their seeds and sign them out (limit one variety to a maximum of 10 packages for each membership number) each time you visit the library. Please print your name, library membership number and leave any comments you'd like to share - see the green sheet on the small table next to the Seed Library baskets. The Volunteers can help you.
Saving seeds
At harvest time, please take extra steps to save seeds for others. The more seeds we save, the more members of our community can experience the joy of growing their own food from local seeds. We want heirloom, open-pollinated, non-genetically modified seeds available to the community to help preserve these for our future. Saving seeds that grow well in this area will ensure that we will have a supply in the event of crop failure in some other areas.
Returning seeds
If you have seeds to share with us at harvest time, please bring them back in an envelope, or clear plastic bag marked with as much information as you can provide.
What else?
The Cultivating Community Connections grant with the Grand Lake Wellness Network allows us to have two events and also to purchase gardening books for the children and adult sections of your library.
Seed Library - 2024
* same as 2023 ** new for 2024 (# of packets)
* Basil - Sweet (26)
* Beans - Bush (Green) Blue Lake (9)
**Beans - (Yellow) Gold Rush (33)
* Beets - Detroit dark red (23)
**Broccoli (DeCicco) (13)
**Brussels sprouts (Long Island) (13)
**Cabbage (Red Acre) (24)
* Carrot - Neptune (48)
* Chive (microgreens) (17)
* Cilantro/Coriander - Santo (24)
* Corn-Honey Select (13)
* Cucumber - Field Marketmore (53)
* Cucumber - Pickling (14)
* Dill - Bouquet (13)
* Kale - Blue Curled Scotch (36)
**Lettuce (Buttercrunch) (16)
**Lettuce (Red Romaine) (23)
* Lettuce (white Boston butterhead) (21)
* Onion - (Green Parade bunching) (26)
* Onion - Early yellow globe (21)
**Oregano (Green variety) (16)
* Parsley (forest green) (13)
* Peas - Shelling Dalvay (15)
* Peas - Snow Little Sweetie (42)
**Pepper - Green Bell - Early Calwonder (17)
* Pepper - Jalapeno (early organic) (22)
* Pumpkin - small sugar or Pie (19)
* Radish - Roxanne (40)
* Spinach-Olympia hybrid (90)
* Squash - spaghetti squash (15)
* Squash - winter Buttercup (13)
* Tomato - Regular, Bush Beefsteak (28)
* Tomato - Roma/Paste (16)
* Turnip (Laurentian rutabaga) (26)
* Zucchini - Green Black Beauty (20)
These seeds are from Veseys Seeds Ltd. in PEI. We do not have planting instructions written on the packages - please refer to the Veseys catalogue or website for information.
Thank you to everyone who has donated their own seeds and is practicing seed saving in the fall. That's what this is all about! Keep growing!