UPDATE: The election results have been tallied and in the Town Supervisor race, challenger Mary Joyce D’Aurizio has defeated incumbent Mary Ellen Heyman. Challengers Deborah Essley and Paul Marasco have also defeated incumbents Gail Bello and Debbie Evans in the Town Board race. Results for all local elections can be found at 13 WHAM.

Original Post: Tomorrow, November 3, is election day. So if you’re registered to vote, be sure to head out to the polls. If you don’t know your polling place, you can look it up using the Board of Elections’ Online Voter Information form. The Board of Elections also has a booklet online (warning: PDF) detailing all of the offices up for election this year. Finally, the Democrat & Chronicle has published an overview of the Irondequoit elections.

Have you checked out the “Scary Movies” display at the McGraw Branch? With Halloween right around the corner, now’s the time to get in the spirit with classic horror like John Carpenter’s The Thing, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy or the original The Blob with Steve McQueen. There’s also plenty of new releases like the Friday the 13th remake, Let the Right One In and Saw V.

All of these items can be reserved by calling the McGraw Branch at 336-6060 or by using the online catalog.

A Partial Sampling of the Scary Movie Collection at McGraw
Army of Darkness
Black Sheep
Bubba Ho-Tep
Eight Legged Freaks
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Night of the Living Dorks
Severance
Shaun of the Dead
Slither
Stupid Teenagers Must Die!
Day Watch
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcist: The Beginning
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Frailty
In the Mouth of Madness
Night Watch
The Omen (2006)
Phantasm
The Reaping
Rosemary’s Baby
The Stand
1408
An American Haunting
Asylum
The Eye
The Fog (2005)
Gothika
The Grudge
The Grudge 2
The Grudge 3
One Missed Call
The Orphanage
The Return
Return to House on Haunted Hill
The Ring
The Ring Two
The Tattooist
The Blob (1958)
The Blob (1988)
The Call of Cthulu
The Cave
Cloverfield
Creature From the Black Lagoon
The Descent
The Fly (1986)
The Fly II
The Host
The Mist
The Monster Squad
The Ruins
Snakes on a Plane
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV
Saw V
Death Proof
High Tension
Dance of the Dead
Duel
Vacancy
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
An American Werewolf in London
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Cemetery Man
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Day of the Dead (2008)
Diary of the Dead
Flight of the Living Dead
House of the Dead
I Am Legend
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dorks
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Extinction
Shaun of the Dead
30 Days of Night
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th (2009)
Behind the Mask
Black Christmas (2006)
Freddy vs Jason
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2007)
Halloween H20
Hatchet
The Hitcher
House of Wax
May
Prom Night (2008)
Rest Stop
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Severance
The Signal
Carrie

Please disregard the previous post. In observance of Columbus Day, the Irondequoit Public Library will be closed on Monday, October 12. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, October 13.

The Great Reading Race between the Helen McGraw Branch and the Chili Public Library is on. After two weeks, here’s how the scoreboard stacks up…

East Irondequoit: 665
Chili: 286

Remember, for every book you read, you need to fill out a slip with your name and the title of the book at the library. The Great Reading Race ends August 14.

Did you know the average household pays about $68 in taxes per year to operate the Irondequoit Public Library? Is that a good deal? Use the Library Use Value Calculator (available at the IPL website) to determine how much you would have to pay to obtain the same products and services the library offers.

What do you think? Send comments to the Library Director at tbuford@libraryweb.org

With winter on the run and summer teasing us this weekend, now’s the perfect time to dig into books and movies about snowstorms and heatwaves. All of these items can be reserved by calling either library (McGraw: 336-6060 & Evans: 336-6062) or by using the online catalog.

Books

The Sandlot
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The Evans Branch of the Irondequoit Public Library has partnered with Rochester Works! to provide a series of job search workshops. Topics include everything from resume writing and interviewing to job searching for the 50+ worker. Registration is required for all workshops. To register, call the Evans library at 336-6062.

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The American Library Association has announced the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Awards for 2009, along with their other annual youth awards. Here are the winners:

John Newbery Medal Winnerfor the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature:

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
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The fiction phenomenon known as the Twilight saga is moving to movie theaters this Friday when the film adaptation of the first book in Stephenie Meyer’s series is scheduled to open. Several different trailers for the movie can be found here.

If you want to catch up with the story, both branches own all four books in the series: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn along with Stephenie Meyer’s non-Twilight novel, The Host. And if you want more vampire stories, we’ve got plenty of those as well.

Adult/Young Adult Novels

Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K Hamilton

Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan series by Darren Shan

Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris

DVDs

November 4th is two weeks away. We’ll continue to receive information on national, state, and local elections until the minute we cast our vote. Sometimes, too much information can be a bad thing (yep, a librarian said that). We’ve compiled a few of our favorite election resources. If you’re overwhelmed, confused, unsure, or just need a place to start, check out one, or all, of these sites:

For information on presidential candidates, Project Vote Smart is a great place to start. This site covers ALL presidential candidates, not just the Democratic and Republican candidates. For each, Project Vote Smart provides biographical information, detailed voting records (when available), issue positions, endorsements, speeches, interest group ratings, and campaign finances. Project Vote Smart also includes some information on state and local candidates.

Public Agenda has created a Voter’s Survival Guide for Election 2008. The guide provides key facts about current issues in an effort to help voters get past the spin. These issues include the economy, health care, climate change, and more.

FactCheck.org is a “nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.” Factcheck provides analysis and a context for most of the issues we hear presidential candidates discuss in debates, speeches, and ads.

For in-depth information on the presidential candidate’s specific proposals, visit their official websites: John McCain, Barack Obama, Charles Baldwin, Robert Barr, Jr, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader

The Monroe County Board of Elections offers a very cool tool for voters. Login to find your voter registration status, your polling place, a list of your elected officials, district information, and perhaps most useful, a copy of the 2008 ballot you will see when you go to vote. This includes your choice of national, state, and local officials, and is a great way to find out your district numbers.

2009 Candidate Guide from the Democrat and Chronicle allows users to find the races for their districts by entering an address and zip code. It starts out with the presidential candidates. Click the Next button to move to the next race. The D&C includes responses from most of the candidates on issues of importance to New York and Rochester. To find out more about local candidates, you could also check out their campaign websites. For most candidates, you should be able to locate their site, or more information about them, by searching Google with their name and “new york”. For example: rick dollinger new york