Blanchard Community Library offers free English and citizenship-prep classes
SANTA PAULA - The Blanchard Community Library is offering free English classes for beginners twice a week and a weekly group for people preparing for U.S. citizenship, according to the library's events calendar.
The ESL Class for Beginners, for people with little or no English, meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. A certified TESOL instructor teaches it, and books and materials are free, the library says.
The Literacy and Civics Circle meets Thursdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. to help participants prepare for the citizenship test and interview, according to the listing.
The nonprofit Friends of the Blanchard Community Library runs the Back Stacks used-book store, with proceeds going to the library. It is open Wednesdays from noon to 4 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m., and the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Shoppers enter through the rear roll-up door off the north parking lot.
The library is at 119 N. Eighth St.