18 December 2013 The Adult Winter Reading Program begins in two weeks! This year our theme is, "The Plays the thing." Our grand prize is tickets for the plays, "Boeing, Boeing" and "Annie Get Your Gun". There will be two tickets for each performance. When you read, listen or view ten items from the Library you get a Vicksburg District Library lunch bag and you are entered for the drawing for the grand prize. For every five items that you read, listen or view after the intial ten, you get another entry for the grand prize. The program starts on January 2, 2014 and runs through March 31. The drawing for the grand prize and other prizes will take place on April 1, 2014. The Brown Bag Classic Book Club will be reading the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. One of the most famous and read early American authors, he wrote, The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlette Letter, The Marble Faun and Twice Told Tales among other short stories. The next meeting of the Brown Bag Book Club will be on Monday, January 20, at noon in the basement meeting room. Hot coffee will be available. A reminder that a donation to the Library can be used as a charitable donation on your income tax. The funding for the Library is mostly local. From our millage, to penal fines, to donations. All of these main funding sources are local. The State of Michigan aid to libraries is less than forty cents per person in our service area. The population of our service area is just over 12,000 so we get less than $4,800 from the State. Please remember the Library as you make your charitable donations at the end of the year. Monday is the last day that we will be open before Christmas. Miss Kristy will be holding a special holiday storytime at 3:00 p.m. on that day. Our holiday hours are as follows: Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: December 24 & 25. Closed New Year's Eve and New Year's Day: December 31 and January 1. We will be open our regular hours from December 26 through December 30. We reopen after New Year's on our regular schedule on January 2, 2014. I WISH ALL OUR PATRONS AND FRIENDS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS. Be careful on the roads and enjoy the company of your family and friends John