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25+ Holiday Gift Books for Children: Beyond the Best-Seller Lists (Mostly)

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Library Staff in Library Blog, Library Services, News

Are you gift shopping for a child in your life? Books are great gifts for kids of all ages. Gift books give importance to books and reading, provide tired kids and their adults with a quiet activity among all the treats and excitement of the holiday season, and keep on giving as the books are […]

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“Green Up” Your Holidays

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Drew Gaede in Library Blog, Library Services, News

Happy December everyone! Hope you had a great holiday weekend, but as you know that was just the start of the season. Here are some ideas from the Library District Green Team to make your holidays, specifically the gift-giving aspects, more environmentally friendly. Ways to REDUCE this holiday season: Batteries – Roughly 40% of all […]

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Blue Jay

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Library Staff in Library Blog, Library Services

This morning a Blue Jay welcomed me to work. Actually, he was scouting around under the industrial trash bin in the alley, so I took a closer look at the fellow we called a “Camp Robber” when I was a child. Last fall I took a bird watching class from Kevin Cook, who exudes a […]

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Winter Wonderland

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Jennifer Zachman in Library Blog, News

Since living in Colorado, I’ve grown accustomed to the relatively mild winters we often have, and I still marvel at how I can usually hang Christmas lights outside in short sleeves in December. But with winter back in its full frozen glory, I find myself bundling up once again in layers of hats, gloves, jackets, and boots […]

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