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August 2016 Newsletter View this email in your browser
60th Annual Richards Free LibraryFestival and Book Sale
Join us on August 27, 2016 for this eagerly awaitedannual event! The Book Sale opens at 9:00AM and runs until 3:00 PM, but if you are a Friendof the Library, early admission starts at 8:00 AM.Anyone can become a Friend that morning for just$5.00, so be sure to arrive early. This year we havea “new” table of military books, a ton of children’sand teen books, many cookbooks, sports books,and novels, novels, novels!
The special feature of this year’s Festival isa Dollhouse Raffle. This magnificent dollhousecan be seen on our website under the calendar
Have you seen our"new" sign on the frontlawn? Our old signwas picked up andturned around by twoof our library trusteesso you can now see itcoming and going onNorth Main Street.Paint 'n Place of
Newport added thelettering on the sign,and some of the International
Workcampers helpedreplant the gardens.
It looks great!
The Workcampersalso helped at the
library cleaning out thebasement and withchildren's programs.
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entry for the Festival. Tickets are $1.00 each or 6tickets for $5.00.
The Cookie Walk (always a sell out!) featuresselections from the exotic to the expected, and adelicious Luncheon on the Library Porch isoffered by our Library Trustees. And be sure tobring the kids for a day of fun at our everpopular Children’s Tent, which has new andexciting activities each year!
Kindle Fire
We have a new Kindle Fire available for loan fromthe library preloaded with several books. Youraccount needs to be in good standing (no fines oroverdue materials) and you need to be at least 18years old in order to borrow the Kindle which canbe checked out for two weeks.
Summer Reading 2016
The 2016 “On your Mark, Get Set… Read!”Summer Reading Program wraps up this week withthe Ice Cream Social Finale on August 4 at 3:00!
It has been a wonderful summer full of reading.The walls of the children’s area are filling up with“megaphones” representing each half hour the
New Movies!
10 Cloverfield LaneEddie the EagleEye in the Sky
My Big Fat GreekWedding 2
RaceThe Hollow CrownWhiskey Tango
FoxtrotZootopia
Check out our"bestseller table" toyour right just asyou walk in the
library doors. Youwill find the NewYork Times
Bestseller List, a listfrom Indie Bound(based on reportingfrom hundreds ofindependent
bookstores), and alist from Library
Reads (the top tenbooks publishedeach month that
libraries across thecountry love), alongwith a sampling ofbooks from those
lists.
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children have read. We’re running out of space toput them! So far participating children under 12have completed 51 charts—that’s over 500 hoursof reading! This doesn’t include dozens of chartsthat are still partially finished or waiting to bebrought in. Way to go, kids!
Congratulations also to our five teen participantswho have finished 12 cards between them, totallyanother 120 hours of reading!
Our readers have enjoyed 14 fun programs so farhere at the library, including a stuffed animalsleepover, a karate demonstration, tie dying, theFrozen TShirt Contest, and a traditional circledance. Look for photos coming soon on ourwebsite!
All of this is possible because of the wonderfulsupport we receive here in Newport from theFriends of the Library, the Rotary Club, the “Kids,Books, and the Arts” grant, Grazi’s Market, CoronisMarket, and KJ’s Café. Thank you! And anothergreat big thank you goes out to all our volunteersand helpers that made this summer readingprogram a success this season, including KyoshiBrent Baker and the kids from Rising Sun MartialArts, Reuben Joshua Relente, and all thevolunteers with the International Work Camp.
Summer Adult Coloring
The Friends ofthe Library need yourcookies for the Cookie
Walk at theLibrary Festival on
August 27! Bake with afamily member, bakewith a friend, or have
a cookie baking party withseveral friends. The
Friends want to make thisthe biggest cookiewalk ever! Drop offcookies any time on
Friday, August 26, at thelibrary.
Looking for the next bookin a series? How about areadalike? Check outNoveList Plus from ourwebsite. Just log in withyour library card numberto find your next book!
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Join us for a morning of Adult Coloring on Tuesday,August 16, from 10:30 to 11:30. We'll supply thecoloring pages, crayons, markers and more in arelaxing atmosphere. We'll go back to our regularevening schedule in September.
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