Wednesday, September 29, 2010

"fine print" Book Fair Celebrating Southwest Minnesota writers







September 25th the Canby Public Library had six local authors visit the library. They were: Jessica Callens-Dougherty with her book "Down on the Farm", Jerome Clark with "Hidden Realms, Lost Civilzations & Beings From Other Worlds", Avery Adair with " The Bluest Skies", Jill Nelson with the "To Catch A Thief" series, Joel Reed with the "Jazz Phillips" mystery series and Prof. Emeritus Joseph Amato with "Jacob's Well". All told about the books they wrote and how they got started writing and what their future plans are.
This event was sponsored by the Canby News in cooperation with the Canby Public Library

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

ZOOMOBLIE VISITS LIBRARY






Great Plains Zoomoblie visited the Canby Public Library on Saturday, Aug. 28th. It was sponsored by the Canby Lions Club. The Zoomoblie brought with them a bull nose snake, chinchilla, hedgehog and a tarantula. We were told about each animal and got to touch them. It was a very interesting program.

Minnesota fish



On Wednesday, August 18th the Canby Public Library had "Fish Families" and "Fish Sense" programs. Given by MinnAqua Program. Kids in attendance learned how to classify fish into
groups called families and how many fish families are in Minnesota. Then they got to explore the six senses of fish and do a fish print called Gyotaku (GEE-OH-TAH-KOO) an ancient Japanese art form.

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