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CROSBY-IRONTON COURIER
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015
5
Great Decisions
Feb. 16: Putin’s
Aggressive
Stance
THE FEATURED SLED for the 2015 Scorpion
Homecoming is this 1975-79 ‘Lil’ Whip’. This
nimble, budget-minded snowmobile was
among the firm’s most successful models for
many years. The Homecoming is Saturday on
Serpent Lake.
RANDY LARSON of Ironton adjusts
the snow-making machine at
Morningside Park in Ironton. This is
the site of the famous Ironton Bar
Stool Races which are scheduled for
Saturday. For more information, call
546-5997.
Stories battlefields tell
Lines from the Library
—By Peggi Beseres, Librarian
Jessie F. Hallett Memorial Library, Crosby
Library Lovers’ Month celebrated
The Jessie F. Hallett
Memorial Library and the
JFHML Friends Foundation
have designated February as
Library Lovers' Month. This is a
time established to acknowledge
libraries for the powerful role
they play in our society, helping
people of all ages and walks of
life connect quickly and efficiently with the information they
need for school, work and personal fulfillment. Throughout
the month we will have special
programming for adults and
children.
For children, our Pre-school
Story Hour led by Story Ladies
Deb Weide, Sharon Beaman,
Becky Munns and Peggi
Beseres is held each Wednesday
morning at 10:30. Story Hour
continues throughout the month
with fun-filled themes of I'm
Sick!, Valentine's Day, Elmer
and Friends & more.
A group of community
members and staff will be meeting in February to finalize the
mission statement, objectives
and first year goals for “IU2U”
(It's Up to You!) a teen mentoring project which is to become
an imbedded program of library
outreach for teens well into the
future.
Adult readers are enjoying a
library program of their own—
“Hot Reads for Cold Nights”—
with 50+ registered readers.
During the course of this popular
winter program, over 160 books
have been read since Jan. 5. It is
still not too late to sign up! In
February the library is proud to
present “Sizzlin Thursdays.”
Each Thursday evening special
presenters will be on hand to
share their knowledge. All programs are free, open to the public and sponsored by the JFHML
Friends Foundation. On Feb. 5,
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Kay
Johnson, proprietor of Den of
Antiquity,
will
present
“Antiques Roadshow.” Each
participant may bring in one
item for free appraisal. On Feb.
12, beginning at 7 p.m., BeeNay-She Bird Council presents
Ken Perry and Area Birding Hot
Spots. On Feb. 19, from 6:30 to
7:30 p.m., the community is
invited to join us for an Author
Talk with Beth Hautala and her
newly-published “Waiting for
Unicorns” (Penguin, January
2015). Books will be available
Cuyuna
Range
In Crow Wing County
FIRE…
911
Unlimited Learning…
for purchase and signing by the
author.
The Hallett Library now
offers 2,000 e-books which can
be easily downloaded via our
Web site www.hallett library.org.
Reading device help is available
on Mondays 4 to 6 p.m. The
library has several i-pads available for in house checkout, made
possible by a generous grant
from the Otto Bremer
Foundation. We offer nine printer capable PCs in our Le
Connection computer lab area,
two laptops for teens in Curbside
and LeapPads for preschoolers in
Cattale Corner. FREE wifi is
available along with an internet
café and coffee bar.
The JFHML has many
resources available for seniors.
We have an extensive collection
of Large Print fiction, mysteries
and westerns with over 5,000
titles, along with many popular
CD book titles. A library staff
member is happy to deliver
materials if you are homebound,
or unable to come to the library.
Beginning Feb. 3, certified
AARP Tax Aides are on site each
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon from noon to 4 p.m. Call
the library at 546-8005 for an
appointment to receive Tax Help
on your 2014 tax return.
All of these events are prominently displayed on our electronic sign adjacent to the library
along the highway. This signage
was made possible by a grant
from the Hallett Charitable Trust,
Minnesota Power, JFHML
Friends Foundation and Cuyuna
Lakes area residents.
The
JFHML
Friends
Foundation meets on Tuesday,
Feb. 10 at 5 p.m. and continues
with its fund-raising efforts
Backstreet Books and the
“Shelve the $35,000 Funding
Goal” campaign. Join the
Friends 6 to 7 p.m. for an informal Meet & Greet with community members, hors doeuvres and
good conversation.
The library shelves are
stocked with enticing materials
to improve your life. We provide
108 current magazines, an
archive of older periodicals on
shelves available for checkout
and eight local, state and national
newspapers. We have 1913-2007
Crosby-Ironton Couriers on
microfilm, copies of C-I
Crosironites (yearbooks), new
bestsellers, CD books, and
DVD's arrive daily. We are very
proud of our e-book collection.
Make the choice to come and
check out the possibilities available at 101 First Street SE.
Friend us on Facebook. Love
your library! Our Web site offers
24/7 access to our card catalog.
Visit us at anytime at www.hallett
library.org. Your Community.
Your Library. Your place to connect with others.
Jon van der Hagen, retired
MD, has a passion for history.
As an amateur, he has studied,
consulted experts and journeyed to some of the battlefields of Europe. These battlefields have fueled a deep historical knowledge and many questions, which he shares with visitors at the Fort Ripley
Museum. He likes to use the
museum artifacts, visitors’ stories and his travel pictures to
understand the people represented by those artifacts in
telling their story. “I like to do
the narratives, reconciling historical chronology with personal examples. I try to be historically accurate, but my goal is
to provide our museum visitors
with entertainment and a personal experience”.
Van der Hagen’s presentation about WWI and WW II
includes Normandy, Ypres,
Bastogne and the Netherlands
Margraten. His narratives and
pictures from his battlefield visits are a rembrance of the magnitude of death and suffering of
individuals that fought and died
narrated through personal stories.
He volunteers regularly as a
docent for the Fort Ripley
Museum. He shares this passion for military history with
museum visitors and has collected many of their stories,
which he will weave into his
narrative. Tuesday, Feb. 10,
1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Heartwood
Senior Living Community,
Crosby. Non-members $5. Visit
www.unlimitedlearning.com
Hot Reads at Hallett Library
Fifty-six adult readers
have signed up for “Hot
Reads for Cold Nights”—the
11th annual adult reading program sponsored by the Jessie
F. Hallett Memorial Library
and the JFHML Friends
Foundation. This program is
intended to liven up the winter months and make reading
more fun, encourage people
who are not frequent library
users to come and explore
what is available, and encourage regular readers to broaden their reading horizons.
It is not too late to visit the
Hallett Library and sign up
for a reading packet. Each
participant receives a reading
log, bookmark, hot chocolate
and a detailed explanation of
the program. Each adult reader that reads and records 20
book titles will receive a Hot
Reads 2015 library mug
(while supplies last.) There
are also weekly drawings for
participants and raffle prizes
at the completion of Hot
Reads. Weekly winners
include Jayme Reynolds,
Deerwood; Shirley Anderson,
Emily
and
Ellie
Boeckermann, Deerwood.
During the month of
February, (a.k.a. “Library
Lovers’ Month”) the library
will sponsor our seventh
annual Sizzlin’ Thursdays.
On the following Thursdays in
the large meeting room of the
JFHML we will offer
Sizzlin’Hot programs:
—Thursday, Feb. 5, 6:30
to 7:30 p.m., Kay JohnsonAntiques Roadshow. (Bring in
one item for a free appraisal)
—Thursday, Feb. 12, 7 to
9 p.m., Bee Nay She Bird
Club. Area Birding Hot Spots
by Ken Perry
—Thursday, Feb. 19, 6:30
to 7:30 p.m., Author Talk with
Beth Hautala, Waiting for
Unicorns.
These events are free and
open
to
the
public.
Refreshments will be served.
Jefferson Bus
stop in Crosby
The Jefferson Bus Lines
stop in Crosby is at the North
Country Cafe on Main Street.
Schedule and fare information is available at www.
jeffersonlines.com or call toll
free 1-800-451-5333.
As calls for closer ties
with the EU failed to be met,
Ukrainians took to the streets
in November 2013. As the
movement later known pulled
western Ukraine closer to its
European neighbors, another
powerful force threatened to
tear away the country’s eastern half: Russia. Putin’s pushback against European expansionism has the West wondering: If Putin’s Russia isn’t
afraid to take an aggressive
stance against Europeanization in Ukraine, what does
that mean for the rest of
Russia’s neighbors?
Monday, Feb. 16 11 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. at the Heartwood
Senior Living Community in
Crosby. Great Decisions is
eight stand alone sessions foreign policy discussion based
on readings and a DVD produced by the Foreign Policy
Association in New York.
Sponsored by the Minnesota
International Center and
Unlimited Learning, meetings are at Heartwood the
third Monday of February
through June and September
through November, 11 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. Contact [email protected], 297-4247
or view www.Unlimited
Learning.com.
Recycling ink
cartridges at
Hallett Library
Recycle your empty computer printer inkjet cartridges
and help the Jessie F. Hallett
Memorial Library of Crosby.
Business and individual
computer users are asked to
save their empty inkjet and
toner cartridges. These cartridges are collected at the
library. The used cartridges
are then purchased by a firm
for $1 to $2, depending on the
brand and model number.
All proceeds go to the
JFHML Friends Foundation
for the benefit of the library.
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[email protected]
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