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Free Ways to Fight the Boredom

Our Minecraft Realm

Our Minecraft Realm is for our friends only so if you know us, come and play in a safe online environment. Cross-platform compatible, players can join from a PS4, XBox One, PC, or Nintendo Switch. Get in touch with us for access.

Free Little Library

Our Free Little Library has more than books! Inside you’ll find audiobooks for adults and kids, and our most popular items lately…puzzles! For safety we keep all puzzles wiped down and in their own self-isolation for a minimum of four days before putting them in the library.

Scribd

Scribd is offering thirty days of free access, no sign up and no credit card required. Tons of popular audiobooks, eBooks, and kids materials are available for streaming or download. (They even have Diary of a Wimpy Kid!)

Red Flag Deals

There is an updated, comprehensive list of other free things you can do while staying home over at RedFlagDeals.com.

The Art of Manliness

There is a good long list of things you can do to stave off boredom, including a bunch of fun things to do with your kids.

Ancestry Library Edition

Thanks to the good folks at the Leduc Public Library, you can access Ancestry records at home, free, with just your library card! Login at www.leduclibrary.ca and click on eResources, then Ancestry.

Have other resources you want to share?
Get in touch with us below, we’d love to add them!

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What’s In the Library? March 17, 2020

Stuck at home? Social distancing? We have lots of new items to help you fight boredom!

The Reckoning
John Grisham

Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand

12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

Reader’s Digest Select Editions: No Safe Place (Richard Patterson), Riptide (Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child), The Coffin Dancer (Jeffrey Deaver), and Somebody’s Baby (Elaine Kagan)

We’ve also added some National Geographic Kids magazines and some puzzles!

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What's In the Library? December 20, 2019

Just in time for the long holiday school break, we’ve added a bunch of kids books, including some audiobooks!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Origin – Leonardo / Donatello
Nickelodeon Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Origin – Raphael / Michelangelo
Nickelodeon Publishing

The Teacher From the Black Lagoon (audiobook included)
Mike Thaler

A Kiss for Little Bear (audiobook included)
Else Holmelund Minarik
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

And for the adults looking for something to read over Christmas, we’ve added…

The Fort
Bernard Cornwell

R is for Ricochet
Sue Grafton

The Truth About Golf and The Truth About the Short Game Instructional DVD Set
A.J. Bonar

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The Flock Project

I have been volunteering on a steering committee that has created a program to support community development on a hyper-local level. It’s called The Flock Project. Have you heard of it?

Basic community economic development tells us to identify local challenges to success and then pool local talent and resources to overcome them, and that’s exactly what The Flock Project is designed to do.

Project applicants submit a project to the Flock web site, one that identifies a need in our community and a plan to address it, and the public votes on all of the submitted projects. Not only does the winner receive funding to implement their solution, they also receive free access to a group of talented mentors that will help with accounting, strategic planning, marketing, or any other identified gaps in skill in order to make the project successful.

If you’re an individual or organization that has an idea, and maybe think you need a little help, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. Intake for the second flight of The Flock Project will open in the spring of 2020.

I’m passionate about The Flock Project because it offers local solutions to local problems while building tomorrow’s leaders.

I know there are lots of people with lots of great ideas. We’re looking forward to hearing them this spring!

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Edmonton-Wetaskiwin Candidates Forum Video

We had a great night in Leduc with the candidates vying to be MP for Edmonton-Wetaskiwin. Despite tackling some tough topics we had some laughs and the questions from the audience were superb. The two-part video is below.

https://www.facebook.com/thechamberleducwetaskiwin/videos/399673400718483/
https://www.facebook.com/thechamberleducwetaskiwin/videos/2458495767566387/
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Edmonton-Wetaskiwin Federal Candidates Forum

Your Chamber of Commerce is hosting a candidates forum in Leduc at the Maclab Centre on October 9. This is a great opportunity to meet the candidates, hear their platforms, and get your questions answered.

You can submit questions online ahead of time, or in writing at the forum.

FREE Public Event/No registration required

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 9, 2019
5:30 pm Doors
6:00 – 8:00 pm Program

LOCATION: Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts
4308 50 St, Leduc

I’m proud to be moderating this forum and I look forward to seeing you there.