Canaan Town Library

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Second Canaan Community Spelling Bee 2012.
Sponsored by the Canaan Town Library and the Friends of the Canaan Town Library.
When: Monday, March 12, 2012 at 6:30pm.
Where: Canaan Elementary School Gymnasium
General Admission: FREE

Please join us for an evening of community fun!
Bring you family and friends!
Sandwiches and cookies available!

TEAMS MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE
Registration: February 1 through February 29
Pick up you registration form at the library

Trophies will be awarded for champion spellers, best team costumes and best team name!
Audience members will have a chance to win door prizes!

See you at the BEE!

that the library has an ongoing book sale in the front hall?  Why wait until Spring to find a great bargain?  We have fiction, mystery, kids, young adult, nonfiction, and movies for sale. You can’t beat the prices: .50 cents for paperbacks and $1.00 for all hard covers and media.

In the front hall, you will also find tax forms!  The basics are here and we expect more forms and publications to arrive shortly.  If you don’t find what you need, we are happy to print forms from the IRS website for you.  Want to try it yourself?  Visit www.irs.gov

Los animales y los colores – Animals and colors are the theme of this week’s Spanish Story Time. Come listen to a couple of stories, sing a few songs, and make your own book of animals. All ages welcome. No prior experience with Spanish necessary. Hasta luego. Saturday, January 21st, 10am.

Should we try this at our library?

The library will be open its regular hours today, 9-noon.  Stop by for a visit, and see what new books we have.  Better yet, ask us for a great old classic to read while you wait for the big game tomorrow night.

Stay home and stay safe.  We will see you tomorrow.

– Library Staff

Did you know that January is National Mail Order Gardening Month?  We have put together a nice display of all things vegetable gardening to get you excited about Spring.  We can even  show you how to place those orders online.  What do you say?  Are you going to order Rainbow Chard, Brandywine Tomatoes, Cross Country Pickling Cucumbers, Atomic Red Carrots or all of the above?

Congratulations to Moriah Harris for winning the library’s 2nd annual essay contest.  This year’s theme was “What does being green mean to you?”  Here is an excerpt from Moriah’s   winning entry.

“You can also “be green” by saving electricity.  You can do this by turning off lights, not using a lot of hot water, and trying not to use machines very often that use electricity.  To make electricity people sometimes use natural resources like coal and natural gas.  We are using these two resources too fast.  If we keep using them too fast there might not be any more left to generate more electricity.  That is why using solar panels, wind mills, tidal dams, and Geothermal turbines is a really good idea.  For these machines all you have to do is buy them and they will pay for themselves in a little while.  You will get free energy, and you will help the Earth stay green by not using its natural resources. . . .  You can help the environment by not polluting, saving trees, recycling, and saving electricity.  This is just a small list of all the ways you can help the environment stay green.  It is not that hard to help the environment stay green, especially if a lot of people are working together.”

Way to go Moriah!

The library will be closed Saturday, December 24 and Monday December 26.  Enjoy your holiday weekend everyone.