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www.TheCreswellChronicle.com: Library News
Be Creative Summer Reading Program Continues
About 100 children bustled from station to station, set up in the library's "backyard," making sand pictures, scratch-art bookmarks, stamping and crafting butterflies of twisted watercolor-painted tissue paper, clothespin bodies and pipe cleaner antennae.
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Andean folk music enchants during library event
Folk music originating with indigenous peoples living high in the Andes Mountains of Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador entertained a crowd of children and adults at Creswell Community Center on June 30.
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Library district adopts budget with modification
During a June 17 public hearing on the Lane Library District's proposed 2009-2010 budget that drew no members of the public, board member Bill McCoy suggested adding a line item for "building purchase research" in the district's Building Reserve Fund.
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Library district's budget ready for public hearing
The library district appears to be fiscally sound, despite the expectation of significantly lower interest earnings because of lower interest rates and the slightly increased cost of wages, benefits and taxes due to staff cost-of-living and step salary increases, as well as increased hours for a library staff member to coordinate volunteers.
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Creswell Library observes NASA's 50th anniversary
On October 1, 50th anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's creation, Gary Ludeke presented a pair of programs at the Creswell Library that gave both children and adults a glimpse into the world of manned space flight.
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Harvest Festival caps Farmer's Market season
Drawings for prizes donated by vendors, live music, a homegrown tomato taste-off and a visit from a working Belgian draft horse team were highlights during the Harvest Festival celebration on Sept. 30 that officially ended the inaugural season of Creswell Library's Tuesday Farmers Market.
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Library approves bookkeeper hire, plans maintenance
A recent walk-through of the interior and exterior of the Creswell Library building and annex by Lane Library District board members revealed a host of mostly minor and some more urgent maintenance needs.
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Music, prizes wrap summer reading series
An interactive hour of singing, guitar and movement, hosted at Creswell Community Center by local musical duo Alan Bennett and Dennis Lyons, wrapped up Creswell Library's Catch the Reading Bug Summer Reading Program on Aug. 12.
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Giant cicadas invade Creswell
Supervised by Dr. Richard Page, Creswell dentist and longtime kite enthusiast, the outdoor clinic aided several dozen children in fashioning simple paper kites shaped like cicada bugs in keeping with the library's Catch the Reading Bug-themed 2008 Summer Reading Program.
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Library stirs up some tie-dye fun
T-shirts, buckets of dye, rubber bands and rinse water provided a recipe for retro summer fun during Creswell Library's Tie-Dye event, held on July 29.
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Hardware, beads, duct tape inspire crafty teens
An array of nuts, washers and wire, along with colorful traditional beads, spurred imaginations and tempted a small group of teens to try their hand at jewelry making during Creswell Library's Hardware Jewelry and Duct Tape Wallets event on July 17.
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Kids go buggy with library crafts
Paper-plate "skate bugs," googly-eyed bug masks, buggy windchimes and more awaited intrepid young adventurers during Creswell Library's Bug Zoo crafts event on July 15.
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Bloodmobile draws donors outside Creswell Library
The Lane Memorial Blood Bank brought their donation drive to Creswell on Saturday, May 31. Their traveling "Bloodmobile" parked outside of the Creswell Library from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and collected 30 units of blood from Creswell donors.
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In artists' hands, books enter altered state
"Book altering has probably been around forever," Peterson said, noting that her mother glued recipes into an old book during the Great Depression of the 1930s. "But sometime in the '90s it started to become a wider, deliberate, organized movement."
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Kill A Watt gauges available at library
The Kill A Watt gauges work by plugging them into an electrical socket and then plugging the electrical device to be measured into the gauge. They are available for patrons to checkout and use to test their devices.
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Library's book sale brings in $2,932
"It has to be one of the best opportunities in town to recycle," said Marge Williamson at a Creswell Community Action Alliance meeting two days before the sale. "People buy used books at the sale, read them and donate them back to the library to be sold at next year's sale.
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