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2012 Drawing & Essay Contest Winners!

2012 Drawing & Essay Contest Winners

Please see the list below of winners for the 2012 “How Can I Keep My Community Beautiful?” Drawing & Essay Contests. The First Place winners will be honored/awarded their prizes at the City Council meeting at 6:30 p.m. on May 15, 2012. The Second and Third Place winners will be awarded their prizes and certificates at their schools. 

K-2nd Grade Drawings

1st Place           Amaris Navarro Carbajal        2nd Grade         Ms. Montenegro          Bandini

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May 3 2012 - 2:45pm Children, Teens

Club de Lectura en Español

Misteriosa Aparición por Linda Howard

Lunes, 21 de Mayo, del 2012 a las 6:00 p.m. en el EOC atrás de la Biblioteca Central

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May 21 2012 - 6:00pm Misteriosa Aparicion - Flyer- 5-2012.pdf Espanol

Teen Book Club

 

The Teen Book Club selection for May is Uprising.

We will be meeting on Wednesday, May 23rd @5:30pm at the Central Library.

All teens in grades 8-12 can participate in the book club.  Please sign up at one of your Commerce libraries.

Join us for the book club meeting and you will be entered into a drawing for free movie tickets.

 

Book Description:

Around her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses.... She herself was sobbing tearlessly.... Her only prayer was still, "I don't want to die."

Oh, please, God, don't let me die, she thought. I've never even had a chance to live.

Bella, newly arrived in New York from Italy, gets a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. There, along with hundreds of other immigrants, she works long hours at a grueling job under terrible conditions. Yetta, a coworker from Russia, has been crusading for a union, and when factory conditions worsen, she helps workers rise up in a strike. Wealthy Jane learns of the plight of the workers and becomes involved with their cause.

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