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Dear Reader: On May 22nd, Russell Library Camera Club Information Evening was wonderfully well attended.  Photographers will meet again at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, July 12th at 6:30 PM in The Library Gallery.  The Camera Club plans to meet monthly and welcomes newcomers. The focus for the next meeting will be photo composition. Please submit…

Dear Reader: Russell & District Regional Library continues to host events which we hope appeal to a variety of audiences.  Many events are pilot projects.  Most recently, we hosted a Silent Book Club. While our two book clubs, Raven and Night Owl, are well established and attended by our regulars, there is another kind of…

Dear Patron: The board of the Russell & District Regional Library make financial decisions based upon the data collected to operate, maintain and charge for services it offers. The board is requesting updated information to help accumulate the data it needs to apply for grants and budgeting purposes. How will this will happen? All Patrons…

Dear Reader: May 8th, 9th, and 10th in the wind up to Mother’s Day on May 12 were eventful for both Binscarth and Russell Library.  On Wednesday, May 8th, Marni Fingas hosted a Paint Night in the Russell Library Gallery. A lovely group of folks gathered to paint their collective hearts out. The Paint Night…

Dear Reader: Thank you to Mr. Bernard Neuhofer, the Shop Teacher at Major Pratt High School in Russell, MB, for facilitating the engraving of the names of the donors to the Russell & District Regional Library’s Donor Wall.  At long last, the vision of the former Board Chair, Rachel Chipelski, has been made a reality. …

Dear Reader: On April 24, Debbie Dunn took her Russell Library Gallery audience on a whirlwind photographic tour from the Galapagos Islands to Lake Titicaca to Vietnam to Morocco and Normandy and points in between.  We saw turtles, camels, monkeys, vicuña, (theirs is the most expensive wool in the world), mountains, sand dunes, pyramids, the…

Dear Reader: For over 40 years, Russell & District Regional Library has been serving the public and refining its services in accordance with consumer demand.  Much of consumer demand depends upon technology and technological advances.  And so it is that such things as DVDs have become an antiquated item at our library.  For over a…

Dear Reader: Established in Canada in 1998 by the League of Canadian Poets, National Poetry Month takes place every April and brings together schools, publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, communities, and poets from across the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in Canada’s culture. The theme this year is Weather.  In honour of…

Dear Reader: Russell & District Regional Library Gallery is flaunting a new art exhibit.  Thank you, Prairie Arts c’ARTel for providing such groovy art every six weeks or so.  Our Library Gallery is worth making a special trip to Russell for.  Be sure to sign the c’ARTel’s guest book when you visit the gallery.  Supporting…

Dear Reader: The phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” was first coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, in his play “Richelieu; or The Conspiracy.” The line is spoken by Cardinal Richelieu, who understands the power of written words to influence, persuade, and change the course of history.  This historical fact is…