I was hoping not to have such hot weather as the students return to school. I just read that The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts a "super-cold" winter in the eastern two-thirds of the country. The west will remain a little bit warmer than normal. Guess I would rather have the hot weather now than the bitter cold that may be coming.
I hope some of you were able to attend The Granny's Quilts of Love auction and dinner this past week-end. I was there for a short while and haven't received a phone call to tell me I won anything, so congratulations to the winners! What a dedicated group of women who work so hard to provide a bit of comfort and beauty to the patients at Arkansas Children's Hospital. To date they have made and donated over 18,000 children's quilts.
I also attended a birthday celebration for Sharon Camp on Saturday. The Camps are not only personal friends of mine but also strong supporters of the Pea Ridge Community Library. We appreciate all you do for us.
We have made some changes in the library i.e. DVDs and some books have been moved. We'll be happy to help you locate them. So many DVDs and books have been donated that it has become necessary to do some rearranging.
The Dig Into Reading contest sponsored by Subway ends this Saturday. If your child has a completed card, it must be used by the 30. If they are still reading, they need to return their books to the library by Thursday, Aug. 28, in order to get their cards punched. I am very proud of all the participants in this program and hope Subway offers this incentive again.
We are striving to obtain books to appeal to many readers. Among them are the following:
• "The Heist," by Daniel Silva -- Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio;
• "The Goldfinch," by Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden;
• "Gone Girl," by Gillian Flynn. (Broadway) A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
• "The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Eeunion," by Fannie Flagg. An Alabama woman's search for her true identity takes her all the way to Wisconsin and into the lives of four sisters who ran their father's gas station during World War II; and
• "Unbroken," by Laura Hillenbrand remains at Number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller Paperback List. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
See you at the library!
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Editor's note: Peggy Maddox is the librarian of the Pea Ridge Community Library. She can be reached at the library at 451-8442 or by mail at P.O. Box 9, Pea Ridge, AR 72751. Library hours are 1 p.m. until 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. The library web site is www.pearigecommunitylibrary.org and e-mail is [email protected]. The Pea Ridge Community Library has a Facebook site.
Editorial on 08/27/2014