15 January 2014 This is the first posting since the first of the year. The first was on a Wednesday and we were closed and last Wednesday we were so busy getting caught up from the days that we were closed, posting was not high on the priorities list. The Adult Winter Reading Program has begun and the Grand Prize this year is two tickets to see Boeing, Boeing in April and two tickets to see Annie Get Your Gun in May at the Kalamazoo Center. To be eligible to win you have to follow the following rules. 1) You must be 18 years old or older. 2)You need to fill in a registration form. 3) When you have read, viewed or listened to 15 titles you get to fill in an entry form. 4)For every five titles that you read, view or listen to after the first 15, you get another entry form. So the more you read, view or listen to, the more entry forms you earn. 5) After you read, view or listen to 10 titles you win a lunch cooler. Only one cooler per person. We have one of the lunch coolers on display on the circulation desk. Storytimes have begun for the winter session. Toddler time in at 10:15 on Monday morning. Baby time is at 9:45 on Wednesday morning and Pre-school is at 10:30 on Wednesday morning. Sad news, Rachel fell on the ice and broke her arm. She is doing well and hopes to be back to work in the next week or so pending doctor's okay. The Knitwits will still meet on Thursay morning, January 16, at 9:00 a.m. If you want to donate books for the Library Ladies annual book sale, they can be dropped off at the library during normal business hours. We ask that you do not bring encyclopedias, magazines or Reader's Digest Condensed Books. All the proceeds from the Annual Book Sale go to support Children's programming and materials. If you need to renew your driver's license or state I.D. card or other basic transactions with the Sectretary of States office, come into the library and click on the S.o.S link on our computers. The link will take you to the Secretary of State's homepage. You can see all the services that they offer online so you don't have to make that trip to a Secretary of State building and stand in line for an hour or more. It is convenient and you can do it from the library or from home. Monday the Brown Bag Classic Book Club will meet at noon in the meeting room downstairs. This month we are reading Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote such works as The Scarlett Letter, House of the Seven Gables and Twice Told Tales. For the month of February we will go Europe and read any book by Jane Austen.