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Show Downtown Library Wins Award, Undeterred by Bombing Lecture series, art exhibits make library shine Nick Parker Community Calendar Oct. 3 -- 17 ; Russell Banks is the next speaker in the series on Oct. 7. The Science Movie Night is another of the i ' ,i Staff Writer ' : Salt Lake City Library is a different story. The librarys Librarys ongoing projects. The series includes a movie and a scientific discussion with an expert in the films subject matter, spiraling architecture houses over 750,000 publications available to the community. It opened in 2003 and serves the surrounding community needs for more than just books. Even in light of a small bomb exploding recently, the library has continued to live up to the title and award it was given this year. Our idea was to create a community gathering place, said Colleen McLaughlin, community affairs in anager and Westminster class of 78 graduate. We have a coffee shop, a deli, radio station KCPW is here and the Salt Lake Community College Writing Center. Those are all partners that we work with to enhance what we do. Such enhancements have garnered the library with more than just an increase in patrons. The li- brary was honored as the American Library Associa- tions 2006 Library of the Year. .. for said Its a very high honor a library, McLaugh- lin. Its probably comparable to a Heisman for a library. The award came with a $10,000 prize and a cover story in the June edition of Library Journal. The Dewey Lecture series is one of the many pro- grams that helped the library earn the award. The Dewey Lecture Series comes from Dewey clas- sification. The idea is to bring in the range of Dewey categories, said McLaughlin. It began when the Library opened. It has been our most popular series weve ever of-fered. We offer these free of charge. We pretty routinely fill or almost fill our auditorium with 300 people. Author Thats has been going on for a while now, said McLaughlin about the series. Thats been tremendous for us. Pulling these groups together and working with them allows us to broaden what we can bring to the public. . The movie nights are cosponsored by the Museum of Natural History and are free to the public. All films begin at 6:30 p.m. and begin in the Main Library Auditorium, In light of all its success, the library is not without its problems. On Friday, Sept. 15 at 2:30 p.m., a small, improvised bomb exploded on the third floor, Nobody was hurt and little damage was caused, but the event disrupted the days events, David Hales, director of Westminsters Giovale Library, was attending a Utah Historical Society con- ference at the library when the explosion occurred, We heard this great big noise and the speaker kept talking. A staff member from the historical society told us to leave the building immediately, said Hales, They said it was a mechanical malfunction. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, it is still unknown who planted the device in the library. Though Hales never got to finish the duration of the conference, The Tribune stated the library contin- ued the next day with business as usual, Its very disappointing when you see something like that happen to something that does so much good for the community, said Hales. I didnt think it would be that draconian. It makes you think what motivates people to do things like that. - Tuesday 4 A book should never be judged by its cover, but the five-stor- y, Photographs of the Great Salt Lake by Hadi Islam, Anderson Foothill Library, until Oct. 17 1135 S. 2100 E., 594-861- 1, Sdence Movie Night: October Sly (1999), 7 p.m. Main library, 210 E. 400 S., . 524-820- 4 0, Wednesday Author Rodger Berg, In Search of Heaven, The Eternal Life," GLBTCCU, 361 N. 9, 7:30 p.m. 300 W., 916-453- 7 Saturday Downtown Farmers Market, Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 V., 8 a.m.- -l p.m. Comics Day, cartoonists make a comic in 24 hours, Main Library, 210 E. 400 S., 524-82- 24-Ho- ur 24-pa- ge 00 Sunday 8 Author Russell Banks, Main Library, 210 E. 400 S., 10 Tuesday 524-820- 7:30 p.m. 0, - - .... Opera Preview Lecture: La Traviata, Main 0, 7:30 p.m. Library, 210 E. 400 S., 524-820- Eoin Coffer, author of Artemis Fowl series, The Kings English, 1511 S. 0, 7 p.m. 1500 E., 484-910- n Wednesday George Orwells 1984: News and Propaganda When Does Spin Go Too Far? Main Library, 210 E. 400 S., 7 p.m. Saturday Downtown Farmers Market, Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 W., 8 a.m.-- l p.m. Literacy Fair, Main Library, 210 E. 400 S., 0, 11 a.m.-- 4 p.m. Healthy Food Causes Illnesses 524-820- Recent cases of E. coli in spinach leads to hundreds of illnesses and hospitalizations Tiffeny Tam Production Manager to worry about your mother making least. Peoyou eat your spinach anymore temporarily at ple around the nation are being warned against consuming coli any fresh or raw spinach after a recent discovery of E. in the plant, which has made local and national headlines. The outbreak has caused over 180 illnesses. More than half of those people were hospitalized, including a Wisconsin woman who died. The deaths of a Idaho boy, who died at Utahs Primary Children s Maryland woman are Hospital, and an as well. very likely to have been caused by the spinach, Though test results on the boy came back inconclusive, the Southeastern District Health Department is coninformaducting a second round of tests for additional tion. Confirmation will be released this week. You dont have 86-year-- old E. coli is a bacterium originating from feces of people or animals and is usually considered harmless unless it contains a specific strand called 0157:H7, which is what the harmful strand spinach contained. Illnesses caused by this of E. coli can lead to various health effects, including diar- rhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Children and the elderly are more likely to developed HUS. i,-- . BaW&si'i The public first became aware of the contamination Sept 14. Natural Selection Foods (NSF) LLC, a large company that distributes spinach to numerous brand names including Dole, issued a recall of all spinach and spinach containing products the next day. On their Web site, NSF issued a public statement saying, The health and safety of those who consume our products is our top priority today and every day. We remain absolutely committed to providing a safe, nutritious product to all of our customers and we will continue to work with the FDA and CDHS on their ongoing investigation. Illnesses have been reported in 26 states, with Utah having the third highest infectious rate. The implicated product was also distributed to Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Iceland. So far, Canada is the only country confirming an illness linked to the bagged spinach. The first bag of spinach testing positive for E. coli was found in the refrigerator of a victim in New Mexico. Utah was the second state carrying bags of E. coli positive spinach. It is believed that flooding is the cause for this contamination. However, the FDA is still investigating this theory. Farmers in California, who produce 74 percent of the nations fresh spinach crop, have had to lay off workers and plow their crops for investigators to exam ' ine the fields. The Salinas Valley, which accounts for of the states spinach, has been the focus of the investigation. According to the FDA Web about three-quarte- rs site, the E. coli contamination only affects three California counties: Monterey, San Benito and Santa Clara. Consumers have become weary of other leafy greens due to the spinach contamination. However, the FDA is assuring consumers that other greens and any spinach grown outside of the implicated counties are safe to consume. Frozen and canned spinach are also safe. The public can be confident that spinach grown in areas can be consumed and the those industry is working to get spinach from these areas back on the market, Dr. David Acheson, FDA said Sept. 22. Until the FDA has decided how to inform consumers that spinach grown outside of the implicated counties arc safe to consume, spinach will not be on grocery shelves. Sodexho discontinued serving spinach a&vt&c outbreak and say that until the health department permits it, it will under remain that way. They said that students standing of the situation and havent mads zny ikp j rCiiiits? . As of last week, Carlos Jleodor crew 1 oJkor Sweet Tomatoes in Fort Union, that tomers have questioned about thespnadiawt&rcakk, the situation hasnt affected them in any way. non-implica- ted |