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DATE: Thursday, October 16
TIME: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: 319 S. Gillette Ave.

THEME: Branching Out
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Campbell County Public Library System
2101 South 4-J Road • Gillette, WY 82718
phone 307.687.0009 • fax 307.686.4009
Genevieve Schlekeway, Public Relations

Media Release
For Immediate Release
Date: October 9, 2008

What: High Tea @ Your Library
When: Sunday, November 2, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Where: Campbell County Public Library

High tea will be served at Campbell County Public Library on Sunday, November 2 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available from any library staff member.
The event will feature beautiful tea pot displays, a chance to win a fabulous array of tea pots in the Penny Auction, and a Silent Auction featuring tea pots created by local artists. And, of course, appropriate “high tea” refreshments.
Proceeds will benefit the Campbell County Public Library System Endowment Challenge Program.

What: Columbus Day Library Closing
When: Sunday, October 12-Monday, October 13
Where: CCPL & WBL
Libraries Closed for Columbus Day Holiday
Campbell County Public Library and Wright Branch Library will close in honor of Columbus Day. Both libraries will be closed Sunday, October 12 through Monday, October13 and resume regular hours on Tuesday, October 14.
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What: K-6 Craft Time
When: Wednesday, October 15, 2:30 p.m.
Where: Campbell County Public Library
Spooktacular Crafts for K-6th Graders at Campbell County Public Library
Kindergarten through sixth graders are invited to Campbell County Public Library to make Halloween decorations between 2:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15. Hungry spooks can end the day sampling “horr-edible” snacks.
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What: Wyoming Author Craig Johnson to Visit County Libraries
When: CCPL • Sunday, October 19, 2:00 p.m.
WBL • Monday, October 20, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Campbell County Public Library and Wright Branch Library
Wyoming Author Craig Johnson Will Speak at County Libraries
Award-Winning Wyoming Author Craig Johnson is making a return visit to Campbell County this month. The author will speak at Campbell County Public Library on Sunday, October 19 at 2:00 p.m. and at Wright Branch Library on Monday, October 20 at 6:30 p.m. Following the program, Johnson will host a book signing featuring his newest book “Another Man’s Moccasins.”
Craig Johnson first visited Campbell County in 2007 when his book “The Cold Dish” was featured in the county’s One Book, One Community event. Johnson has received both critical and popular praise for “The Cold Dish” (Viking/Penguin), as well as his other books “Death Without Company” (Viking/Penguin), and “Kindness Goes Unpunished” (Viking/Penguin) with starred reviews in Kirkus and Booklist. All three novels have been made Booksense selections by the Independent Booksellers Association and Killer Picks by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. “The Cold Dish” was a DILYS Award Finalist and was a Booksense Paperback Summer Pick for 2006. It will be translated into French in 2009. “Death Without Company” was selected by Booklist as one of the top-ten mysteries of 2006, won the Wyoming Historical Society’s fiction book of the year, and was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Bookseller’s Association’s Book of the Year. The short story, “Old Indian Trick,” won the Tony Hillerman Mystery Short Story Award and appeared in Cowboys & Indians Magazine. “Kindness Goes Unpunished,” the third in the Walt Longmire series, was number 38 on the American Bookseller’s Association’s hardcover best seller list. “Another Man’s Moccasins,” the fourth in the Walt Longmire series, was released by Viking on June 2, 2008. It has been made a Booksense pick and has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a Featured Pick. All four novels have been recorded by Recorded Books with George Guidall reading.
Craig lives with his wife Judy in Ucross, Wyoming.
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What: “Iron Jawed Angels” movie presentation
When: Monday, October 20, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Campbell County Public Library
HBO Movie “Iron Jawed Angels” to Be Shown at Library
Campbell County Public Library, in partnership with Campbell County League of Women Voters, Campbell County Historical Society, and Zonta Club of Gillette, are pleased to present the HBO movie “Iron Jawed Angels” on Monday, October 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the library. This movie is a Spring Creek Production, a Katja von Garnier Film staring Hilary Swank, Frances O’Connor, Julia Ormond, and Anjelica Huston.
“Iron Jawed Angels” recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women’s-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women’s voting rights in 1920.
When they set out to tell the story of Alice Paul and her colleagues, the filmmakers who created Iron Jawed Angels knew that many Americans weren’t aware of this chapter in U.S. history. Determined to capture both the power and drama of the suffrage movement, the film’s writers interviewed historians, delved into newspapers and studied archival photographs. The writers, costume designers and actors brought suffrage history to life with the making of this movie.
At the onset of this story, women had no vote, no political clout, no equal rights. But what they lacked under the law they made up for with brains, determination and courage. “Iron Jawed Angels” is the inspirational true story of women who fought for — and ultimately won — the right to vote for women in America. Their courage inspired a nation and changed it forever.
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What: Patty’s Book Bandy
When: Monday, October 20, 5:00p.m.
Where: Wright Branch Library
Wright Branch Library Fall Book Discussion Continues
Patty’s Book Bandy, the annual Wright Branch Library book discussion hosted by CCPLS Director Patty Myers, will be discussing the second book, “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd, on Monday October 20 at 5:00 p.m. The first meeting will be on Monday, September 22 at 5:00 p.m. Books are currently available for checkout at WBL.
Sisters May, June and August rescue Lily Owens and her surrogate mother Rosaleen after they escape the racist threat of their hometown. Their new life with the beekeepers creates a story for women of all generations to share.
Discussion on November 17 will feature SNOW ISLAND by Katherine Towler.
Following the book discussion, award-winning Wyoming Author Craig Johnson will speak at 6:30 p.m. Johnson first visited Campbell County in 2007 when his book “The Cold Dish” was featured in Campbell County’s One Book, One Community event. After the program, Johnson will host a book signing featuring his newest book “Another Man’s Moccasins.”
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What: Patty’s Book Bandy
When: Tuesday, October 21, 3:00p.m.
Where: Campbell County Public Library
Campbell County Public Library Fall Book Discussion Begins
Back by popular demand is the annual Campbell County Public Library book discussion hosted by CCPLS Director Patty Myers. Patty’s Book Bandy will feature three discussions with plenty of time in between to enjoy each book. The first meeting will be on Tuesday, October 21 at 3:00 p.m. when NINETEEN MINUTES by Jodi Picoult will be the subject. Books are currently available for checkout at CCPL.
Sterling, New Hampshire, witnesses the horror of a 19 minute school shooting and its aftermath. Superior Court Judge Alex Cormier and her daughter Josie become central figures because of Josie’s friendship with the shooter. What happens when the unexpected happens and the world turns upside down?
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Sue Monk Kidd will be discussed November 18 and on December 16 SNOW ISLAND by Katherine Towler will be the subject.
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What: Author Night @ Your Library
When: Thursday, October 23, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Campbell County Public Library
Teen and Children’s Author Night @ Your Library
Teen author Will Hobbs and children’s author, Diane Stanley will speak at Campbell County Public Library on Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wyoming Room. A book signing will follow the author presentations.
Hobbs and Stanley’s visit is sponsored by a Campbell County Community Public Recreation District grant, Campbell County Reading Council and Campbell County Public Library. They will be visiting local schools October 21-23 — Hobbs with junior high students and Stanley area fifth graders
Hobbs is the award-winning author of seventeen novels for young readers of which seven have been chosen by the American Library Association as Best Books for Young Adults. His newest is “Go Big or Go Home.” Although Will has never had a meteorite crash through his roof, he does have a long-time fascination with astronomy, extreme life-forms, and the Black Hills of South Dakota.
In honor of Hobb’s visit, a special planetarium show “Meteorites” will be at Sage Valley Junior High’s planetarium on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Diane Stanley won the Washington Post-Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for the body of her work. She is well known as the author and illustrator of an award-winning series of picture book biographies, most recently “Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam.” She is also the author of three novels.

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According to CNN.com 41% of employees are always waiting for that next paycheck. It is sad to mention that some people view it perfectly normal to live paycheck to paycheck.  So what is so bad about living paycheck to paycheck anyways? First of all when does an expense or accident ever wait until payday? Next, the economy does not care when or if you are getting your next paycheck. It has been taught throughout several generations, as far back as the Egyptians, that saving for hard times was a basic survival skill.

 As Americans have we forgotten where we came from? Have we forgotten the struggles our forefathers and mothers had to do nothing better than to survive? We should have learned this lesson well enough, but as a society we have not. Yes, our society has challenges; we do not as a whole have simple lives. To suggest everyone start living in covered wagons would also be a bit farfetched, there is however simple things we can keep in mind.

 First, just because our neighbors have the newest, most expensive vehicles, does not mean that we can afford one! (When do you not see trendy vehicles in Gillette?) This concept does not just apply to cars; it includes many trendy and competition worthy aspects of life.  (Computers, clothing, jewelry.)

Second, even though everyone lives on debt (90%), we don’t have to! There is a sad (or I can say happy) 10% of Americans out there who do not worry about debt on a paycheck to paycheck, weekly, or even monthly basis. Would it be that horrible to have no debt? Although the numbers of people with too much debt is much less than those in debt, the idea of having none at all seems much more common sense.

 Finally, when a person keeps in mind future goals it helps to maintain a certain amount of perspective. Building that new mansion here in a few years is not going to be possible without some planning (budgeting), saving, and focus on that goal. Why plan on retiring when you are 55, if you aren’t saving enough money to retire until you are 80?

So what to do? According to Dave Ramsey, a financial counselor, a plan (budget) and $1000 in the bank is a great place to start. The next thing Ramsey suggests is that it is going to take some effort. Sure you have to create a few goals, yes you will have to come up with some kind of plan (budget), and sure you might have to sacrifice those lovely new fingernails, or that trendy new gas-friendly car, but the reward waiting at the finish line can truly be “Living the American Dream”.

 There may not be a day that goes by in the average American’s life that “ECONOMY” is not slapped in their face.  Every newspaper, news station, radio station, news site, and public gathering smells of some kind of economy issue. In fact if you Google the word economy right now this is what you would see,” Results 1 – 10 of about 284,000,000 for economy “.The top economy issues are so well trod that to mention them would be mundane.  So to look at things from a more positive perspective let us Google the word frugal, “Results 1 – 10 of about 11,600,000 for frugal “. Ok that is a little better. People of all walks of life are trying hundreds of different solutions to save a little green. In today’s “ECONOMY” (ouch) a person does not have to be a “tightwad” to practice some of the frugal tips offered today. Perhaps you do not want to know that there are 400 frugal uses for vinegar, or that there are a few of us still using cloth diapers.  Maybe you are not exactly interested in putting French fry grease in you gas tank, but I am confident that everyone can find something in our current economic state to help relieve some expense. However you choose to deal with America’s current ecological state remember that the first place to start is your own home. Who knows you may just like the idea of being a “tightwad”.

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