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How to help a struggling reader

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I love reading, I am sure that comes as no surprise. You’d be hard pressed to find a librarian who dislikes reading. I love curling up with a book on a chilly morning. I love falling asleep with a book at night. I love stolen moments of the day reading, when I should really be doing something else. I read on planes, trains, and in the car as long as I’m not driving. I read in restaurants, coffee shops, and in waiting rooms. I read fiction and non-fiction from the adult shelves and the children’s room. I love young adult fiction and biographies about almost anyone. I must confess ...

Silhouettes were cheap to make, but expensive to collect

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Silhouettes and profile images date to ancient times. Usually limited to the head and shoulders, the shape is a filled solid color attached to a high contrast background. Featureless, but easily recognizable, they offer fast identification. Silhouettes were at their peak of popularity in the late 18th century as an inexpensive way to create a portrait miniature. French finance minister Etienne de Silhouette, who was known for cost cutting, became associated with anything made cheaply. Cutting a person’s likeness from paper was the simplest and most economical way to document their ...

Big Ten Tie-Ups

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LINCOLN, Neb. — A little more than five years ago, Dayne Morton was finishing his senior year of wrestling for the Sibley East Wolverines with a 117-9 career high school record and a Class A state wrestling championship at 120 pounds. Fast-forward to 2023, Morton is closing in on ...

Senior Meals

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MONDAY Chicken fried steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, carrots, dinner roll, dessert, milk. TUESDAY Chicken a’la king, peas and carrots, pineapple chunks, bread stick, dessert, milk. WEDNESDAY Fish sandwich on a bun, cheesy diced potatoes, mixed green salad w/dressing, tropical fruit, dessert, milk. THURSDAY Pork loin, candied yam, california/normandy vegetables, dinner roll, dessert, milk. FRIDAY Lemon pepper fish, baked potato w/sour cream, coleslaw, bread margarine, apple Brown Betty, milk. The New Ulm Community Center is OPEN for in person dining. Call 359-2243 for ...

Time for an Upgrade

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Remember the good old days of using a card catalog? You’d search along the cabinet drawers for the right heading, then you pulled it open to reveal a long stack of index cards. Flipping through them to find what you were looking for and then where it was located, you took off through the library’s stacks in search of the book you wanted. Actually it was both very time consuming and took up a lot of space. Any time books were added to the collection or weeded from it, the cards would need to be updated. Depending on the style of the cabinet, you might even have to go through the cards ...

Senior Meals

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MONDAY Egg bake with sausage, overn baked potatoes, carrots, applesauce, coffee cake, milk. TUESDAY Meatloaf, baked potato with sour cream, blushing pears, dinner roll, Valentine’s Day dessert, milk. WEDNESDAY Past in meat sauce, romane salad with dressing, pineapple chunks, bread stick, dessert, milk. THURSDAY Roast turkey w/gravy, mashed potatoes, california/normandy vegetables, bread, dessert, milk. FRIDAY Baked ham w/sauce, scalloped potatoes, peas and carrots, dinner roll, dessert, milk. The New Ulm Community Center is OPEN for in person dining. Call 359-2243 ...