PETERS TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS

Medicare 101

Thursday , Oct . 26 7 to 8:30 p . m .

Are you new to Medicare or have questions about your existing Medicare ? Let the APPRISE program help make sense . Medicare continues to provide important benefits as the health insurance program for people 65 or older , people under 65 with certain disabilities or conditions . This free workshop will cover the four parts of Medicare ( A , B , C , D ) and give detailed information regarding your options when you become Medicare eligible . Learn what is covered , your costs , how Medicare works , and available benefit programs .

This program will be presented by Adele Dean , Regional Coordinator of the APPRISE program . Adele Dean is employed by Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Agency on Aging . Adele will be available to screen participants to see if they qualify for assistance programs and a question and answer session will follow the workshop . Various handouts will be available . APPRISE is the State Health Insurance Assistance Program ( SHIP ), brought to you by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging . Staff and volunteer counselors are specially trained to answer your questions and provide objective , easy to understand information . APPRISE is not affiliated with any insurance agency or broker .

Love isn ’ t Meant to Hurt : Domestic Violence

Monday , Oct . 16 7 to 8:30 p . m .

On average , nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States ( National Coalition Against Domestic Violence ). With October designated as domestic violence awareness month , the library has partnered with the Peters Township Police Department to provide information about domestic violence . The presentation will include a discussion of the police response to domestic violence calls including statistics and procedures , as well as information about the Lethality Assessment Program – a screening tool designed to assist in identifying victims of

domestic violence who are at the highest risk of being seriously injured or killed by their intimate partners , and immediately connect them to the local communitybased domestic violence service programs .

Sunday Afternoon with Sam Hazo

Sunday , Nov . 12 2 to 3:30 p . m .

Please join us as we welcome Dr . Samuel Hazo as he shares his recollections about Pittsburgh and speaks about his book – The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You . This book is more of a personal recollection than a history or a travel guide , “ It is a gathering of times and incidents of what Pittsburgh meant to me over a lifetime . Others might find that my recollections match theirs . I will present these as a kind of mosaic - not necessarily in historical order - and interweave poems that I wrote at those times ” says Samuel Hazo . The program will conclude with a short film . Dr . Samuel Hazo is the author of books of poetry , fiction , essays , and plays .

U . S . Entry into WWI

Thursday , Nov . 2 7 to 8:30 p . m .

For two-and-a-half years , Americans looked on in horror as the European war killed unprecedented millions . Then , the United States joined the fight , and the first American to die in the war would be the 1st Division ’ s Private Thomas Enright of Pittsburgh , PA . By early 1918 , American fighting tipped the balance , broke the stalemate , and the Great War — the War to End All Wars — finally shuddered to a close . What followed was a peace so disastrous that it virtually guaranteed a resumption of war . This “ Peace to End All Peace ” was known as the Versailles Treaty , which Woodrow Wilson negotiated in 1919 . The end result was an impoverished , humiliated , but not entirely broken Germany , a Soviet Russia , and a newly isolationist United States . The stage was set for another World War far more catastrophic than the first . Come hear how the 20th century was born from this end of World War I .

Todd DePastino , presenter , is founder and executive director of the Veterans Breakfast Club , a 501 ( c )( 3 ) nonprofit dedicated to sharing veterans ’ stories with the public . Over 5,000 different people have participated in the Veterans Breakfast Club ’ s programs over the past eight

Todd DePastino years . Todd is the author of the award winning Bill Mauldin : A Life Up Front and six other books . He has a Ph . D . in American History from Yale University and has taught at several places , including Waynesburg University where in 2008 he won the Lucas- Hathaway Award for Teaching Excellence .

World War I and America I is presented by the Library of America in partnership with the Gilder Institute of American History , and the National World War I Museum and Memorial , with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities

This program is offered by the Peters Township Public Library in partnership with VFW Memorial Park Post 764 and Veterans Breakfast Club .

Most computer classes cost $ 5 , although free classes are occasionally offered . Basic mouse and keyboard skills required . Classes are limited to nine students unless noted otherwise . Registration must be received by 4 p . m . on the Tuesday before class . The following classes are all held on Wednesdays .

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