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Keep up to date with everything happening at your local library this November! Printed event calendars are readily available at the front desk along with handouts that include additional information about upcoming programs and events.

It was prime time for Halloween festivities this morning at the library for the whole Preschool Storytime & Movement crowd. After a quick story all about Halloween and some songs, we jumped right into the candy and all the other assorted goodies!

This coming week on Halloween Tuesday (10/31) the library will be open special hours that will differ from normal Tuesday/Thursday evening hours. We will be open from 9:30 AM-5 PM so please keep this in mind if you need to grab books, movies, or use the computer that day.

To all the trick-or-treaters out there, we wish you a festive, fun, and safe evening!

Thank you to Shamokin Head Start for welcoming us and our Preschool Storytime & Movement program into your classrooms. We hope to see you all again in the future for another fun morning like the one we had yesterday with everyone!

As a reminder, tomorrow (10/24) the library will be open special hours that will differ from normal Tuesday evening hours due to the Shamokin Halloween Parade which kicks off at 6 PM. We will be open from 9:30 AM-5 PM so please keep this in mind if you need to grab books, movies, or use the computer.

During the parade, representatives from the library will be outside the building handing out bags of candy to kids until we run out!

This morning at Preschool Storytime & Movement we read “Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins” and then got to make our own jack-o’-lanterns to take home. Don’t forget to have your costume ready as next week will be our Halloween party for our Monday morning friends starting at 10 AM!

Join us at the library for Healing Chair Yoga with instructor KymBre Shingara tomorrow afternoon! Classes are held from 4:15-5:15 PM on Mondays through the rest of this month and into November. All adults and abilities welcome!

**REMINDER** Do you have a passion for home cooking and keeping memories of yesteryear alive through certain dishes that you make? Perhaps you still even use the same handwritten recipe card that was passed down to you by a dear departed loved one even though you know the recipe by heart!

With dozens of local cookbooks on hand collected from churches, clubs, and other groups that have traveled from one kitchen to the next over the years, an organizational meeting for the library’s new “Cookbook Book Club” will be held Monday (10/23) at 6 PM for everyone interested in making this new venture something that will help us better connect with each other, our own stories, and hopefully lots of tasty food! If this sounds like you, please sign up either at the library or by giving us a call this week.

We would like to thank guest author Dr. Anne Katona Linn for visiting our library this morning and sharing her story, insights, and authored work. Copies of her book “Shunning Lies: Living Beyond Childhood Trauma” are still available for purchase at the library for $13 while supplies last.

We had a very festive group yesterday evening at Book Bingo and even had a few folks attend in full costume! If you weren’t able to make it this week, catch us again next month on November 7 (Tuesday) and/or November 16 (Thursday) at 6 PM upstairs at the library for bingo, books, and fun for the whole family!