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Welcome to Constitution Week, National Singles Week, and Build A Better Image Week. One way to build image is through education. Thursday is National Student Day, which recognizes all students from preschool through postgraduate. If you know any students, be sure to tell them how proud you are of them!
Friday is American Business Women's Day, which celebrates the contributions of the more than 55 million American working women. Friday is also Dear Diary Day, Proposal Day, and National Centenarians Day, which honors those people who have lived a century or longer!
Saturday is Innergize Day, a day to set time aside for yourself to do anything you want to do. If you're a sportsman, then you might want to set aside time for National Hunting and Fishing Day! Sunday is National Good Neighbor Day, and Monday is the anniversary of the day in 1690 when the First Newspaper was published in America. However, authorities considered this first and only edition of "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick" to be offensive and ordered immediate suspension.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. story times, participants will hear stories about families and make a family of stick puppets and a poster of homes. Saturday morning's 10:00 story time celebrates features ant stories, and participants will make a crown, necklace, and anthill using die cut ant shapes.
BOOK TALK
The library's Bob Kerwick provides this week's book information. When the movie "Saving Private Ryan" was released, it seemed to revive interest in World War II and the people who fought in it. Many WWII vets, who had been silent all these years, began to recall their experiences, and others began to reduce these recollections to a printed form. As a result, we have a number of really good books on the subject.
In "The Greatest Generation," Tom Brokaw writes about a generation of heroes who grew up in the Great Depression, fought in WWII, and came home to build modern America. Brokaw's first book was so well received that it stirred up a groundswell of response from wives, widows, brothers, sisters, and children of men who served their country in WWII. Their stories are told in "The Greatest Generation Speaks."
Frank F. Mathias tells the story of growing up in a small town during the Great Depression, a time when parents, teachers, and mentors did their best to instill in their charges a sense of right and wrong, a sense of values. He brings back these memories of a kinder, gentler place in "The GI Generation."
The photograph of six Marines raising the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima is one of the most unforgettable photos from WWII. In "Flags of Our Fathers," the son of one of those "boys" tells the stories of those marines, both before and after the flag raising.
Bob Greene is another son of a WWII vet who tells his dad's story and that of Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima) in "Duty." This is the story of ordinary men called upon to do some extraordinary things in the service of their country. As Tibbets himself put it, "Every man ought to pay a price to live in this country, and that means helping to defend it."
DID YOU KNOW?
If you're getting ready to join the Social Security generation, here's some advice from "Bottom Line Personal." Start taking Social Security payouts at age 65 instead of waiting until age 70. Most people who take the higher age payout will be almost 85 before they catch up to those who start taking benefits at age 65. Consult your financial advisor if you're in doubt!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're home." (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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