Dear Reader,
If you are reading this, thank you. If you are reading this, you must really love to read.
As you read, paper in hand, perhaps you can smell the paper-and-ink smell unique to newspapers, perhaps you can feel the paper between your fingers. For your sake, I hope you can. The tactile experience of holding a book or a newspaper in one’s hands has yet to be duplicated through the swiping of a screen. But, I have a hunch, you don’t need me to tell you this. You lovely newspaper reading person, you.
Sherry Bauming-Stasiuk’s resignation as Library Assistant has come as an enormous surprise to all of us. “I am walking away with some amazing memories and some wonderful friendships” Sherry says. Sherry has been a fixture at the Library for many years: known for her love of acronyms, eye-catching window displays and no-nonsense approach to life. Sherry will be at the Library until February 24th, 2023. Please come in and let Sherry know she’ll be missed. We wish Sherry well and look forward to seeing her out and about in the community.
New at the Russell & District Regional Library this week: An Amish Christmas Star by C. Hubbard, Rosalind Lauer, and Shelley Shepard Gray (novel); Code Name Sapphire by Pan Jenoff (a WWII novel); Harvest Moon by Denise Hunter (a Riverbend Romance); Long Way Home by Lynn Austin (hard cover, large print).
Toddler Time continues to be all the rage between 10:30 and 11:00. Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays.
Don’t forget, Russell & Riel: A Public History Presentation. 7:00 pm February 15th, 2023. Come one, come all!
“The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God’s love and his 1875 adultery trial.
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. He feedeth among the lilies. Song of Songs 6:3
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
–Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Happy reading, until next time,
The Library Ladies