2008 Summer Reading Program

July 1 - 31

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Summer Reading Program Cartoon! Don't see the movie? Your computer does not allow plug-ins.
 
Starting in July (Beaufort):
  
Toddlers (18m-3yrs): Fridays 10am
PreSchool (4-5yrs): Wednesdays. 10am
  Ages 6-10: "Buggy" hands-on activities each Thursday from 9am-3pm
Tweens 11-18: Metamorphosis, a four-week scrap booking workshop each Thursday at 4:30
GET THE BUZZ ON OUR FREE
SUMMER READING PROGRAMS!
  
STEP ONE: Sign up starting June 16 at the library for the Summer Reading Program. It's easy and fun!
  
STEP TWO: See why patrons of all ages are swarming to the Library. Joins us for these free programs.
  
Thursday Guest Speaker Program FOR ALL AGES (in Beaufort):
3 p.m. on Thursday, July 3: "Catch the Reading Bug: Build a Bug Contest" with speaker Leslie McCombs-Porter, CCPL Youth Services Librarian
3 p.m. on Thursday, July 10: "SWAT: Mosquitoes and Cockroaches" with speaker Alice Anderson, Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, Environmental Health Sciences and Safety Program
3 p.m. on Thursday, July 17: "Ladybugs By Day and Fireflies By Night" with speaker Patricia Cahoon, Cooperative Extension Agent, 4-H and Youth Development
3 p.m. on Thursday, July 24: "Beekeeping: A Honey of a Hobby" with speaker Anne Edwards, Cooperative Extension Agent, Agriculture-Horticulture

Thursdays in July at 10am (Pine Knoll Shores):
7/3 Here a bug, there a bug.
7/10 The good, the bad, and the bugly. visit by Phil Kaylor from the X-Team (exterminators)
7/17 Bee-utiful! visit by beekeeper Dan McLaughlin
7/24 Oh, what a tangled web!
7/31 Flutter, Buzz, and Zoom.

Starting in July (Cape Carteret):
7/1 Anne Edwards, Guest Speaker on Bees, 3:30pm
7/8 Storytime 10:30am (preschool & toddlers) & Ramblin' 3:30pm (K-6th)
7/15 Storytime 10:30am (preschool & toddlers) & Ramblin' 3:30pm (K-6th)
7/22 Guest Speaker Ben Kane talks about Mosquito Control, 3:30pm
7/29 Storytime 10:30am (preschool & toddlers) & Ramblin' 3:30pm (K-6th)

More Events at Cape Carteret

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2008 Storytelling Festival

NEWS BULLETIN:   Check out the free Storytelling Festival...
SHORT AND TALL TALES   Wednesdays in July!
FOUND IN CARTERET COUNTY!  
   
Yes! Four top storytellers will converge on Carteret County Wednesdays in July to present fast, fun, exciting, entertaining LIVE STORIES for you to enjoy! FOR FREE!  
Donna Washington
Tall tales...short tales...GREAT tales to turn on your imagination! Bring the folks!  

Terry Rollins

Lyn Ford

Kelly Swanson

   
The History Place White Oak Elementary School  
1008 Arendell St. 555 W.B. McLean Blvd.  
Morehead City Cape Carteret  
10 a.m. each week 2 p.m. each week  
   
July 2 - Donna Washington  
July 9 - Terry Rollins  
July 16 - Lyn Ford  
July 23 - Kelly Swanson  

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