Claxton Library
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Evans County Library 701 West Main Street Claxton, GA 30417 (912) 739-1801 — directions
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Story Time: Halloween
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At our last story time Kim read the kids a story and then we went outside and planted magical pumpkin seeds. While the pumpkins were growing we had a party then picked our pumpkins out of the pumpkin patch.
Story Time Craft: Sparky the Dog
Last modified on 2010-10-28 19:36:30 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Kim read Sparky the Fire Dog at our last story time and the kids had fun making a firedog out of styrofoam cups, wiggly eyes, and pom poms. We cut out white constuction paper for ears, and red construction paper for the fire hat. Story times are held each Wednesday morning at 10:00am.
Book Signing: Betty Jenkins-Hagan
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On Sunday, September 26, Ms. Betty Jenkins-Hagan had a book signing to promote her book The Ultimate Relationship – Is with God. She started this book about 15 years ago, getting notes, sermons, etc together to compile this book. She then really started getting serious about the book about 10 years ago after the death of her Mother. While talking about her book, she said, “The main purpose of this book was to leave a legacy to her family. She want her children and her grandchildren to have more than what she had coming up.
Since this book was published, she has had a grandson interested in writing also. He is 11 year old Eric Jones from Marietta, GA. He has written a children’s book and has drawn the illustrations for this book. She has told Eric that she will help him get this book published and he was really smiling big when she was sharing this information with me.
Betty Jenkins (Kirkland) studied Sociology at El Paso Community College and Human Resources Administration at St. Leo College. Yet, formal education is not what gives Ms. Jenkins such in depth insight into the causes, endurance, and ultimate triumph of life’s experiences. It is the fact that she has lived the life. In “The Ultimate Relationship”, Ms. Jenkins compassionately shares what she has learned. You will not read this book without being touched, confronting your own pain, and learning how to overcome.
Some of the proceeds will be going into the Betty Jenkins-Hagan Diabetes Scholarship that will be awarded in May. If you would like to purchase this book, contact Ms. Betty Jenkins-Hagan at bettyjenkinshagan@yahoo.com or you can reach her on her cell 912-682-0986.
Book Signing: Tommy Palmer
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On Sunday, August 29, Mr. Tommy Palmer came and had a book signing with his book The Daisy Boys Club. In the fast-paced world we live in, every one needs a place of refuge. “The Daisy Boys Club” take you to a simpler place and time where faith, family, and friends were the most important issues.
One of the many that received a book from Mr. Palmer is Janet Strickland; and the person sitting by Mr. Palmer is the co-editor Ms. Grace Faille.
Tommy Palmer is a Media Consultant who resides in Georgia. He’s a veteran Radio and Television broadcaster, who is an Associated Press award-winning sportscaster with hundreds of football, basketball and baseball games broadcast to his credit. He is the anchor of syndicated sports programs: “The Georgia High School Football Scoreboard Show”, “Countdown to Kickoff”, and “The Wednesday Night Huddle”, which air each fall all across the state of Georgia during football season.
Mr. Palmer also broadcast the Georgia High School Association football semi-finals and finals from the Georgia Dome from 2005-2008 on statewide television via Georgia Public Broadcasting. Palmer is a free-lance writer with contributions to the Savannah Morning News, Statesboro Herald, Statesboro Magazine, Georgia Sports Monthly, Maxpreps.com, Georgia Football Magazine, and Atlanta Sporting Family Magazine.
If you are interested in getting one of his books to read you can contact him at www.palmerplacepublishing.net.
Easter Story Time
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The children from Story Time for Tots were entertained by the Easter Bunny with stories, candy and the parachute game. Many parents and grandparents brought other treats for the children and a great time was had by all !
Young artist to ‘rock’ the library
Last modified on 2010-09-27 16:51:28 GMT. 2 comments. Top.
At age 14, Leah Sands will soon teach a grant-funded art lesson, called Art Rocks, at the Evans County Library. Aimed at youth 12 and up, the class is free to participants. The funding takes the form of a $541 grant from the Grassroots Arts Program through the Georgia Council for the Arts, matched by half that amount in local contributions. The class is scheduled for 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, but students need to sign up at the library in advance.
Art Rocks isn’t just a catchy name for a class. It identifies the genre. Leah paints rocks to look like animals. She started about two years ago after her grandmother, Barbara Sands, gave her a book by “rock artist” Linn Welford as a Christmas present. “The book kind of gets you started on the basic animals, and then you can start looking and taking pictures of animals, and you can kind of see the design and the colors in them and you can paint on pretty much any rock you want to,” Leah says.
A home-schooled ninth grader, Leah is the oldest of the four daughters of Chad and Melissa Sands. After her grandmother’s gift got her started, other family members and friends have encouraged Leah in her art by giving her rocks to paint. “Most of these were kind of given to me,” she said. “I had, like, little pebbles that I started with, and then when my family would go on trips I’d ask them to bring back rocks, like from a river bed or something, and I would paint them, too. Usually I would give them back as presents.”
Leah has painted about 30 rock animals so far. A large selection of them are now on display in a case at the front of the library. They range from cute little guinea pigs up to a lifelike likeness of her grandmother’s dog Marcel, painted on a plate-size stone. Most are painted on individual rocks the size of a fist or smaller.
Subjects include a tiger and other wild cats, a house cat, a pair of pandas, a mother penguin looking down at her baby who is painted on the same stone, a snake, a raccoon, and others. For her giraffe Leah did a tiny bit of sculpting as well as painting, gluing on pebbles and smoothing with wood filler to form the creature’s long neck.
Rock art holds other possibilities than just animals, she says. In her books, Linn Welford has also given instructions for painting plants on rocks to create an unusual kind of rock garden. Asked if she considers herself an artist, Leah says, “I guess so.” But she is talented in science, too, and at this point doesn’t plan to go to art school. “I actually haven’t really considered going into art as my profession,” she said. “I have a really big interest in science and all the things I’m learning in my biology classes right now, so I’m thinking I would take that as a career and this would be kind of a side hobby.”
She is looking forward to teaching the Art Rocks class. If her students show enough interest, there may be a second session within the grant-funded program. Leah’s mother said she’s excited about the Art Rocks class.
“I think Leah is just going to get blessed by being able to share her talent with other kids and I think it’s going to be a good experience for her,” said Mrs. Sands. A Grassroots Arts Program grant is available to every Georgia county each year, says Susan Willcox, who prepared the grant application. She and Connie Cavender represent Evans County on the program’s regional advisory board. They, Geri Wasdin, Leah and the library’s Melinda Hodges have worked together on the planning. “Generous donations by citizens and business owners in the local area” provided the matching funds to make this year’s two Grassroots projects possible, Willcox said. The second grant, for $1,500 with a $750 local match, is for a project called Blue Skies. The ceiling of the children’s section of the Evans County Library will be painted sky blue, with children and donors to paint clouds in various shapes on the ceiling panels.
Valentine Story Time
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The Evans County Story Time children created Valentine tins using foam stickers. The children will take the tins home with plans of filling them with cookies and other treats for their families. We also read the book “If You’ll Be My Valentine”. Story times are held each Wednesday morning at 10:00am.
Ronald McDonald visits the Library
Last modified on 2009-07-22 19:00:35 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Ronald McDonald’s visited the Evans County Library on Wednesday, July 22nd. The adults and children who attended enjoyed listening to Ronald read from a book entitled, “Giraffes Can’t Dance”. After the show, Ronald gave out coupons for free french fries and coupons for a free medium McCafe’ coffee. Story time is held at the Evans County Library every Wednesday at 10:00am for children between the ages of four and ten. It is free of charge, and lasts for one half hour. During story time, children experience picture books – from beloved classics to popular new releases – being read aloud. Registration is not required, but seating is limited, so we do request that you phone ahead when bringing a group of twelve of more. For further information, please call (912) 739-1801.
Earth Day 2009
Last modified on 2009-07-22 19:00:08 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The children from the Evans County Story Time celebrated “Earth Day” on Wednesday, April 22nd. The story “If the Earth were a few feet….. In diameter” by Joe Miller explained to the children about protecting the environment. The 4 R’s, reuse, recycle, reduce, and rethink were discussed. Each topic was explained and the children learned how to recycle in their own homes and reduce waste. The children placed pledge cards on a tree in front of the library committing their protection of the environment. Each child received a free pine tree sapling from International Paper, bookmarks, coloring pages and stickers. The children in attendance were: Dalton Cody, Lenijah Cullars, Kassidy Koenigstein, Haley Odom, Alan Porter, Torrance Porter, Javieon Palmer, Dedrea Washington, Preston Waters, Zachary Waters and Arlie Wiggins.
