Marilyn York

05/17/2025

Thank you to everyone who voted and to the Reno Gazette Journal! So grateful.

03/08/2025

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02/06/2025

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10/08/2024

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Santa Fe Public Library is working with fathers at the Penitentiary of New Mexico to unite families through literacy in a program called “Fathers As Readers” (FAR). In this workshop participants read aloud and are recorded on a CD disc. The CD and the corresponding book are then mailed to the children that participants have chosen. Children who receive a literacy package from their father or grandfather are
encouraged to read while also feeling a special closeness with their father or grandfather.

In June 2024, Santa Fe Public Library began the first of many educational sessions working with fathers residing in Penitentiary of New Mexico. Many participants in the first group of fathers are from the Santa Fe Public Library’s book club that participated in the 2024 Santa Fe Reads, many more are interested in participating and have begun the process to join our upcoming FAR programming. Librarians are assisting the fathers or grandfathers with how to read to children and engage in story time. Fathers or grandfathers select a book (donated by Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library) for their child and practice how to read them. The end goal is to record the story and then the book along with the recording will be sent to their
child.

The meetings consist of orientation around children’s story time, practice reading sessions, where we learn together how to make the story engaging, and lastly the final recording session. Librarians assist with helping inmates in selecting the right book for their child, guidance on how to read to a child, as well as helping build the inmates’ literacy skill levels.

Santa Fe Public Library is pleased to offer “Fathers As Readers” as part of our dedication to education through library services. This program is a positive way to proactively encourage literacy appreciation among our incarcerated population in Santa Fe and their families, as well as maintain and nurture connections between fathers and the children in their lives.

10/04/2024

Thank you all for your big kind response to my whinny baby charity post from days ago. Giving can be hard. When our village comes together for the better good of our community hope is restored. Many of my friends who cannot make it to our amazing Halloween Ball this year because of other commitments have asked how they can donate! Thank you so much. After all at the end of the day we are simply trying to raise funds for our program expenses to keep our otherwise homeless young women housed. Here is an easy link to donate and other ways to help! Thank you all again!

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10/04/2024

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10/04/2024

Here is an easy link to buy your Halloween Ball tickets for our amazing event coming Saturday the 19th!!

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08/28/2024

For this amazing event to be a success we need more cakes, a lot more volunteers and some face painters please! We can provide stencils to help the face painting. Where is our community? I know the economy is tough right now but this is volunteer work we are looking for! Please help and spread the word.

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08/20/2024

So I made this comment under the Netflix promo of this garbage movie and lo and behold (allegedly) Harry Connick Jr. himself liked it. Awesome, if true. I have always been a fan of his (and perhaps should have said as much in my post) but the movie was outdated trash against fathers and I stand by my concerns and comment. Still funny that he “liked it”, yet I wish celebrities took more responsibility in the messages they get highly paid to share with the world via “entertainment”. A swift “hell no” upon reading this script would have been the easy choice had he or anyone he knows experienced any real life version of this film. Yet, so very hard to believe he doesn’t know someone that has been impacted by the wrongful deprivation of a father child relationship, given its pervasiveness.

07/23/2024

This movie pi**ed me off and deeply saddened me. Somehow it makes failing to notify a father of even the existence of his child - for the entirety of her minority - not only fine but worse the movie turns the horrific act on the father when he dares to get upset upon learning the shocking news! Then mother slowly forgives HIM but only after he and the deprived daughter seronade her in her native tongue. Seriously? Women having children and failing to inform fathers or perhaps worse knowingly putting the wrong father on the birth certificate - is absolutely kidnapping and fraud and yet there is no legal recourse nor repricussions for doing so. In fact it is more often than not permanent soon after it’s done! How truly appalling and in 2024 we make a cute celebrity movie about it and once again vilify the father? How!? Why. I’m disgusted and heart broken to see this portrayal and lack of even the slightest understanding of the true victims of this selfish act - the child and father.