The Clarence Community Newsletter is produced online at www. showcase. netins. net / web / clarencecityhall
To contribute content to the newsletter please email to JenMWal @ gmail. com or contact Jen VanOort at PO Box 92, Clarence, IA or 563-452-2301
The deadline for submissions is by the 20th of the previous month.
Edna Zybell Library News!
By Sandi Brunscheen Library Director
Greetings from the Zybell Library!! Summer is half over and we have just finished our Summer Reading Program; " Dig Into Reading "! What a great month we had! There were around 25- 30 kids that attended the program. The first week we made ants out of egg cartons! Magician Mike Pretsby came to the Legion and put on a great show for the kids!! We had refreshments provided by the Friends of the Zybell Library!! Then we had our sand art! It was great to see all the creations they came up with using different colors of sand. Our final week we had our " picnic " at the legion. Not knowing what the weather was going to be like, the gnats, and the rain. I just felt it was much better at the Legion. Lot of room to run and have a good time. I can ' t say enough about my help! I have four great girls that I think so much of and the help they provide for the library it is truly amazing. Ali Tenley, Taylor Tenley, Brittyn Wilhau, and Macey McAtee. Also, library board members that provided treats for the month, Sue Elijah, Karla Tenley, Becky Bergmann. It was very much appreciated!! Also Alice Covington and Wanda Anderson for helping at the picnic. Always so much easier with more hands to help prepare things. Thank you very much!!!
Also a special thank you to Shirts n Stuff( Bart and Lisa) for printing the t- shirts for the program. It really helped a lot!!! It was a huge success. A thank you also goes to the Legion for letting the library use the upstairs for our program. It was so much easier and more room for the kids to have fun. Thanks everyone for all you did! It was very much appreciated! Our book study group is still meeting the Second Tuesday of the month. We just finished reading " Hattie Big Sky " by Kirby Larson! What a great book. This month we are reading " Turtle Moon " by Alice Hoffman. Nothing to do on a Tuesday night, join us for a fun evening! Plans continue for our new library. Donations have been coming in but more are ALWAYS greatly appreciated. If you want more information on what is going on with the new library building or have questions about the project, please stop in and we can visit with you about it!! We have been given four new computers and furniture with a couple of grants that Cedar County group ap- plied for.( Eight libraries within our county received two computers) and the other grant from the Library also got two and workstations for the computers, shelving and furniture. So we will be busy in the next month or so putting all this together and trying to find space for all of this!! New movies have come in( The Call, A Good Day to Die Hard, Identity Thief, The Host). Also books are being purchased each week for the library. For everyone ' s information we are providing postage stamps at the library. So if the post office is not open, stop in and purchase your stamps. We have been very busy this summer and it is always a good thing for kids to come to the library, read a book, color pictures just visit and have a good time. Enjoy the rest of your summer, stop in and take a look around at the library. Lots of things to offer here. Even grab a mint or a lollipop!!! Great time at the library!!! Happy Reading!
© 2013 Jen VanOort