As of March 2024, the entire digital version of The Page Turner will be available here on the website! This month's digital newsletter includes an interview with chocolate festival organizer Nancy Keiser, a recipe from Mustang's past, an Easter mad lib, and a book review from one of our own TLC members.
Smoothies- March 14th, 4:30pm
Mix it up with Donna from OSU Extension office and make a healthy and tasty drink.
Leprechaun Sugar Scrub- March 21st, 4:30pm
Make this magical scrub with a leprechaun twist!
The Straw Hat Pirates Anime Club- March 28th, 4:30pm
Join us for our monthly anime club. Each month we will watch anime and try out Asian snacks.
Teen After Hours: The Haunted Heist Escape Room hosted by the Teen Leadership Council- March 29th, 6:30pm
Hosted by the TLC, you will work together to escape in this spooky themed escape room! Snacks provided. No entry will be allowed after 6:35.
All listed programs are for 6th-12th graders only and are feel to attend. To register, visit localhop.com
By Tayleigh Miller
The Friends of Mustang Public Library is a non profit organization designed to receive contributions for, make donations to, and to otherwise support the Mustang Public Library. The Friends was formed in 2001 with one goal in mind: to buy books for our library. One of their fundraising projects was to create and sell a cookbook that incorporated the history of Mustang in stories and photographs and sell it in time for the Centennial of Mustang on November 22, 2001. Kathleen Moonn headed up the project and “A Taste of Mustang” Cookbooks were made. I recently discovered a copy of “A Taste of Mustang” and decided to try a recipe from it. I chose:
Pecan Millionaires
From the Kitchen of Janey Clark
-64 Caramels (I used Werther’s Original Soft Caramels)
-¼ c. evaporated milk
-3 c. pecan halves
-Dipping chocolate
Melt caramels and evaporated milk in double boiler. Add pecans. Drop on butter cookie sheet. Harden in refrigerator and then dip in dipping chocolate.
*If dipping chocolate is not available, use this mixture: Melt in double boiler:
6 oz. chocolate chips
⅓ bar paraffin
Keep hot in double boiler while dipping.
This is a favorite recipe of my mother, Ethel Hopkins of Oklahoma City.
Let me tell you, these Pecan Millionaires definitely make you feel like a millionaire! They’re delicious. I am super excited to be able to share these treats with the patrons of the 16th Annual Friends of the Mustang Public Library Chocolate Festival on March 8th, 2024. If you’re reading this before March 8th you can get tickets from the front desk of the library. If you’re reading this after the festival, mark your calendars for next year. You won’t want to miss it.
FUN FACT: The library moved into it’s current location on July 07, 2002. It started as a Bicentennial Project headed up by a local Girl Scout Troop.
By CJ Welch
Schools are closed at Easter time and all the ______ (noun) get ______ (number) weeks off. The ______ (adjective) teachers also get a vacation. There are a lot of things to do during Easter time. Some kids hang around and watch ______ (noun). Others go outside and play ______(game). Little ones will color ______ (adjective) eggs. They use ______ (adjective) colors of dye to dip their eggs in. When Easter day finally arrives all of the kids are all feeling ______ (emotion) and ______ (emotion). They are all waiting to look for all of the ______ (adjective) Easter eggs that are hidden around the ______ (location). And at the end of their hunt they are given a(n) ___________ (adjective) chocolate bunny.
By Trenton Colbert
With the friends of the library coming up, I sat down with festival coordinator Nancy Keiser to learn more about the history of the event
Carolyn Klepper started the Friends of the Library and came up with the idea of the Chocolate Festival 17 years ago.
Everybody just goes out and tries to get baskets. The community has been just wonderful doing that. Then our vendors, if we don't have enough vendors, I start reaching out, looking for vendors, and then now I'm still getting, we're full, and I'm still getting people texting, emailing, calling, looking to do a table, but now I can only do maybe one or two more tables and then we have to close it down."
The community has gotten more involved. The vendors have really stepped up to the plate and brought, originally we asked for 300 pieces of chocolate and we'd run out. Then we'd ask for 400 servings of chocolate and then we'd run out. So now we're asking them for 500 servings of chocolate and most of the vendors are doubling that. We also give awards for the best decorated table and the vendors have really gone all out, just gone overboard with the competition, trying to be the best table.
Just that it keeps going. I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. I'd like to keep going as long as I can, but who knows what the future holds. I'm hoping that some of the younger members can start stepping up and maybe take over in the future. That is a big thing is getting new members for the Friends of the Library because it's been the same bunch of eight of us for years and years and years and now suddenly we have a whole bunch of new ones, so that's been a big help
Well, there's chocolate. Who doesn't love chocolate? What's nice about it is people are starting to find out more. You can buy it. You don't have to have a ticket to get into the chocolate festival. You just have to have to have a ticket to get chocolate. So one person can buy a ticket and two or three people can come in with them and all get chocolate on that one ticket. So that's the beauty of it.
Because we raise the money for the library we spent a lot, a good portion of it goes towards the summer reading program, that is very costly because we give out a lot of prizes to these children that come in and all kinds of prizes and bags and awards and stuff. We also raise money to cover the furniture, or we bought computers in the past. So all the money is going to the library.
By Jerrika Banks
The perks of being a wallflower are a true insight into young adulthood! The struggles that so many face, the joy we have, and the life many of us live—the book represents what being a teenager is. It is the best way to show the fun and the not-so-fun of it all. The story feels like a true story, speaking to everyone about life in such a simple way. Charlie is truly every teenager ever. He doesn't find his place in the world, so he just stands back and watches. Eventually, he makes friends who do the same, and they teach him that it is okay to be a wallflower, but it is also okay to have fun and to be a person. They accept Charlie as is, and he accepts them as well. He embraces who he is; he struggles with his family, inner conflict, fitting in or standing out—everything teens nowadays still face to this day. Even though this book takes place in the 1990s, it is still so relevant.