Registration for fall programs begins the week of Sept 7 (368-4644). See www.library.pe.ca for complete schedule. Groups should call ahead. Regular reading times can be arranged for groups. After school groups are encouraged and welcome.

A do-it-yourself workshop on how to create press releases will be held September 22 at the Farm Centre in Charlottetown. It will be lead by Tracey Allen of T. Allen Consulting and will help participants to understand the purpose of a press release, how to create a press release for online and offline use, distribute a press release, and how to integrate it with social media to increase your web presence.

If family genealogy is an interest and you love a good laugh along with a good lunch (desserts) then you want to act quickly and reserve your tickets to a unique evening being presented by Wyatt Heritage Properties on October 1.

Behind the Gate by Paul Murphy of PEI has now reached best seller status in Atlantic Canada with over 2,100 sold, this according to Retromedia Publishing of Charlottetown.

MUSEkids summer camps take place at the new MUSEartspace 211 Euston St., Charlottetown. This whole summer of week long day camps is for boys and girls ages 8 to 12.

Hours of operation increased in two rural Prince Edward Island libraries in May.

Atlantic Book Award winners are:

Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky (Penguin Canada);

Copies of a new local book, Beyond Silence: Voices of Childhood Sexual Abuse, a publication that was written and published on PEI, will be made available at library sites across the province.

Peterborough author Michelle Berry is the winner of Enfield & Wizenty’s inaugural $5,000 fiction prize for her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life.