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Join us for Yoga Classes on Thursdays @ 7:00 PM and Saturdays @ 10:00 AM. We sell passes for 5 classes for $25 and the passes do not expire. If space permits, walk-ins are available for $8 per class. This is one of our efforts to become healthy in 2009. Yoga is a great exercise for mind, body and spirit and is a gentle way to increase your health and vitality.
For more information on both of these reunions, please see the following web site: http://www.gallatin.k12.ky.us/Pages/Alumni%201.html or click on the link above Gallatin County High School Class Reunions.
Here are the remaining events we have scheduled: July Events9th Nelstone “Stone Sculpting”1:00-2:00 (younger children)2:30-3:30 (older children)14th KY Shakespeare Festival“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 1:00pm21st Time Sparough the Space Painter “Up With Creativity” 1:00pm28th Fun Finale for Readers 12:00-3:00Cookout 12:00-1:00Reading Prizes 1:00Backyard Bounce, parachute activity, and cotton candyWhen attending each event be sure to turn in reading forms, pick up new forms, and check out more books!
July Events
9th Nelstone “Stone Sculpting”
14th KY Shakespeare Festival
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 1:00pm
21st Time Sparough the Space Painter “Up With Creativity” 1:00pm
28th Fun Finale for Readers 12:00-3:00
Cookout 12:00-1:00
Reading Prizes 1:00
Backyard Bounce, parachute activity, and cotton candy
When attending each event be sure to turn in reading forms, pick up new forms, and check out more books!
Click on Ask Why KY to connect with a live librarian! Ask Why KY is a virtual reference service that allows questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Kentuckians can go on-line and "chat" with a knowledgeable and highly trained reference librarian. Questions can also be submitted via e-mail. Within minutes, questions can be researched and a real answer from a trustworthy source can be sent directly to your computer.
OCLC, a worldwide library cooperative based in Ohio, makes the 24/7 service possible. When local librarians aren’t on duty, OCLC librarians pick up the questions and provide answers.
This is a web site that provides GED Test Preparation, Job Skills and Tips for Everyday Life. Check it out at fastforwardky.com !
Did you know that we have a great electronic resource available to you to assist you in preparing to take the SAT, ACT, GED or the firefighter or police officer exams? Learning Express Library is accessible on all of our computers, and to you at home on yours through our library web site. There are also Business Writing Skills Success Courses, Job Search and Success Skills Courses and Job & Career Help.Click on Learning Express Library above to prepare for YOUR future! All that's needed is for you to create a user name and password and you're on the road to your future - no cost to you at all! Try it today!
There are also Business Writing Skills Success Courses, Job Search and Success Skills Courses and Job & Career Help.Click on Learning Express Library above to prepare for YOUR future! All that's needed is for you to create a user name and password and you're on the road to your future - no cost to you at all! Try it today!
Click on Learning Express Library above to prepare for YOUR future! All that's needed is for you to create a user name and password and you're on the road to your future - no cost to you at all! Try it today!
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If you, or someone you know are not able to enjoy books or magazines because you cannot see well or cannot handle library materials due to a disability, take advantage of a free service - KY Talking Books Library. You can call 1-800-372-2968 to sign up, or you can contact us at the library. You will receive books and magazines on casettes and a casette player - all delivered to your door.
Each year NEH identifies a theme important to the nation's heritage and selects books that embody that theme. This collection of theme-related books is the Bookshelf. In addition to introducing young readers to good literature, the Bookshelf promotes understanding of abstract or general ideas through the power of particular stories.
The American nation, observed Abraham Lincoln, was “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
The “Created Equal” Bookshelf provides opportunities for young people to explore what the Revolutionary generation meant when it declared that “all men are created equal.” What challenges has America faced, and where has it shown progress, in its efforts to live up to the ideal of universal human equality? How did Abraham Lincoln, whose bicentennial we celebrate in 2009, contribute to the idea and the reality of human equality in America?
Three thousand libraries received the “Created Equal” Bookshelf—a collection of seventeen classic hardcover books for young readers, all related to the “Created Equal” theme. In addition, libraries received four of these books in Spanish translation, a bonus “History in a Box” resource kit created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and supplementary materials for programming, including bookplates, boomarks, and posters.
Books included in the “Created Equal” Bookshelf are as follows:
Kindergarten to Grade 3• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen • The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln • Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco • Pink Y Say by Patricia Polacco (translated by Alejandra Lopez Varela) Grades 4 to 6• Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman • Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman • Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman • Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton • Lyddie by Katherine Paterson • Lyddie by Katherine Paterson (translated by Rosa Benavides) Grades 7 to 8• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis • Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman • Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters ed. by Harold Holzer • Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez • Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through Spanish Edition by Francisco Jiménez Grades 9 to 12• Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober • That All People May Be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth by Nez Perce Chief Joseph • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes • Flores Para Algernon by Daniel Keyes (translated by Paz Barroso) • Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller • Amistad: A Novel by David Pesc