The 25 entries in the Cool Creations Cardboard Contest were viewed by LWers on Jan. 15 in a drive-through/walk-up display in the roundabout beside the LW Library. Sal Herrera of Mutual 4 won first place for his GRF maintenance vehicle, and Sally Fowler Untitled-2 1 of Mutual 8 placed second with her three-paneled farm. Tied for third were Judy Sherratt’s (Mutual 9) “Stairway to Heaven,”

Miryam Fernandez’s technology classes are held every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. Topics change each session, all of which are closed captioned. For an invitation, email Fernandez at mzzmimm@gmail. com. If you need help setting up a microphone and/or video or have other connectivity issues, call Bonnie Cooper at (562) 822-6358 before class begins. Registration is required 24 hours prior. Feb. 2:

By Patty Marsters pattym@lwsb.com The Orange County Public Libraries has an extensive catalog of ebooks available for readers with smartphones and tablets. Anyone with an OC Public Libraries card can check out audio and ebooks through the online app Libby by OverDrive. (To get a card, go to https://catalog. ocpl.org/client/en_US/default/ search/registration/$N/TEST/ true.) Through this app

Looking for an escape? Open one of these tomes, all of which are available as ebooks, and lose yourself in their worlds. “TheHundred-Year-OldMan Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.” Jonas Jonasson’s two-book series starts on the 100th birthday of Allan Karlsson. Instead of going to the party he didn’t want, Allan climbs out the window of his bedroom in a nursing home and begins

The Book Club will meet virtually via Zoom at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss Kathryn Stockett’s novel “The Help.” Both a novel and a movie, the story centers on the maids and white people in 1960s Mississippi. Southern society girl Skeeter (played in the film by Emma Stone) returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview

By Patty Marsters pattm@lwsb.com According to a recent podcast by Dr. Anthony Metivier, visiting art galleries can improve memory. Among the 17 reasons he gave are it helps make mental connections between space and material objects, exercises one’s ability to create meaning, and gives the experience of puzzlement. “Looking at art is never just about ‘looking,’” Metivier wrote in