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Welcome to National Garden Week, National Volunteer Week, and National Library Week. This is also Families Laughing Through Stories Week and Young People’s Poetry Week.
Today is Barbershop Quartet Day, and Wednesday is the anniversary of the day in 1934 when the highest velocity natural wind was recorded at the Mount Washington, New Hampshire Observatory - a record 231 miles per hour! Wednesday is also Thank You, School Librarian Day.
April 15 would be Income Tax Pay-Day, but since it falls on a Saturday this year, you have until midnight on Monday to procrastinate! Monday is also International Moment of Laughter Day. Laughter is a potent and powerful way to deal with the difficulties of life, so you can laugh all the way to the Post Office with your income tax return!
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. story times, children observe National Poetry Month with stories and Mother Goose crafts. Saturday morning's 10:00 story time features nutty, squirrelly stories, peanut finger puppets, and nutshell ships.
BOOK TALK
Librarian Mary Beth Wright provides this week's book information. According to the jump rope rhyme, "first comes love, then comes marriage, and then comes . . ." the flurry of activities surrounding the planning of the wedding! Be sure to start your planning at the library! "The Wedding Wise Planner" by Suzanne Kresse is the ultimate workbook for brides. Marcy Blum, named best wedding planner by "New York Magazine," makes getting married easy in "Weddings for Dummies." If you have Internet access, "14 Day Wedding Planner With Internet Guide," by Don and Sandra Altman, puts the World Wide Web’s searching capabilities to work. For a non-traditional wedding, "Weddings by Design," written by Richard Leviton, is a creative, resourceful guide for today’s couples who want to create a diverse wedding. Ingrid Sturgis has written a practical handbook that reflects African and African-American wedding traditions in "The Nubian Wedding Book."
From pre-wedding shower games to writing thank you notes and everything in between, your Roswell Public Library has books and information to make weddings easier, memorable, less stressful, easier on the pocketbook, and uniquely yours!
DID YOU KNOW?
Here are some very useful Web sites. As tax day draws near, you might want to contact the IRS for free, personalized answers to tax questions. The Web site is www.irs.gov/help <http://www.irs.gov/help>.
For information about home, auto, health and other types of insurance, try the very informative site, www.insure.com <http://www.insure.com>, which includes rate comparisons and companies’ complaint histories.
You can get help with homework at www.studyweb.com <http://www.studyweb.com>, which links to more than 100,000 educational sites, sorted by category and grade level.
The Mutual Fund Education Alliance website gives performance and other information on more than 12,000 funds. The site can be used to track your portfolio, too.
A new federal government Web site, <http://clinicaltrials.gov>, lists more than 4,000 current research projects (clinical trials on breast and prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis, etc.), explains how experiments work, and gives contact information.
If you’re looking for the perfect house, you’ll find more than 1.3 million listings, many with photos, from the National Association of Realtors at www.realtor.com <http://www.realtor.com>. You’ll find homes for sale by owners at www.owners.com.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "The person who laughs, lasts." (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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