Friends of the Atlanta Public Library (903) 796-2112

Friends News 101 West Hiram Street

Atlanta, TX 75551

Indvidual Highlights:

Librarian News: 1

Web Site:

Business Members 2

Kids Corner: 2

Taxes:

Events Calendar: 4

New Arrivals: 4-5

Membership Form: 6

Genealogy: 3

Our Mission Statement:

To provide an at-

mosphere of warmth and safety for com-

munity growth through information and social interaction

Friends of the Library

Board of Directors:

President: Sherry Estes Vice President: Diana Fulks Treasurer: Jerry Porter Corresponding Secretary: Open Secretary: Open

FOL Board Notes !!

From the Director’s Desk…

Dear Friends,

We’ve had an exciting start to our Summer Reading Program. See Angela’s report on page 2. Our Business Membership continues to grow and we will

start doing short focus stories on them this Fall. Our checkbook balance is $8,096.36, as of June 30th. We will have several expenses coming soon as we partially sponsor the Summer Reading Program.

Jerry Porter

The past month has been an extremely busy one. Summer reading has really been going well this summer. The Atlanta Area Rotary club is the official sponsor, but we also got a donation from Woodforest National Bank. Angela Autrey is the coordinator, and she is doing a great job.

Just three weeks after my 30th anniversary cruise to Alaska, I was blessed with a beautiful grand-daughter. Ella Kathleen was born five weeks prem-ature, but weighed in at 6 lbs. and 14 oz.! She has a few normal premature things going on, but I think she will work all of those out. I was able to take off a week to help my daugh-ter recover from her sur-gery and also managed to get in a few snuggles. She will call me Sugar. Of course I have to add a pic-ture of her here.

Computer classes will resume in the fall, and a special class will be at the Senior Citizen’s Center. More information about that will come at a later date. We are always trying

to meet the needs of our patrons, and patrons should contact us with any ideas for books, programs, or meetings we should add.

This is budget time, so pray that the city manager and council look favorably at the budget I have sub-mitted. We are including requests for money to up-date the Jesse Miles Brooks Conference Room. We do have some grant money for that purpose and just need to maximize the impact of that grant money with the addition of some city budget money. Again, if you have sugges-tions or want to volunteer to be involved in that pro-ject, just let us know.

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Friends Insider Information !! Adult computer clas-ses will resume this Fall. Subject to availa-bility of instructors, there are plans to have both day and night classes in Computer Basics, Internet and Email and Microsoft.

Be safe this July 4th. Watch out for children and fires! Publisher: Jerry Porter

gcporter70@yahoo.com

Subscription: $5.00/yr KID’S CORNER

The Littles Give a Party What could be more exciting than having a “double” celebration? John L Peterson writes a story of his literary family, the Littles about when the family decided to plan a birthday party ...AND... a 4th of July party for Granny Little. But the problem for the youngsters of the family is that it’s a surprise party, so they can’t tell Granny. The story is augmented with illustrations by Roberta C. Clark and the cover is illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers. This will be an enjoy-able book to read to your child or grandchild on July 4th!

2012 Summer Reading Program Week 1: Monday: Teen and adult pro-gram, a movie and “Reeces Pieces” Toddler Tuesday: Books, crafts and Scooby snacks. Po-lice Chief Mike Dupree read stories. Wonder Wednesday: Hounds & Cat Burglers, mystery read-er and puppets. Terrific Thursday: 2nd visit from the Chief and crime solving. 45 children attended during the week!

Week 2: Monday: Future… What’s coming in ten years in cars, houses and food? Made a Time capsule jar Tuesday through Thursday: Moved into the secret world of Spies. Toddlers talked about faces! The TV program “I Spy” Who was the mystery reader

from week 1” She was Sher-rie Fitts CNP and she read a story about a missing Brown-ie!

Week 3: Monday: Murder mystery solved with clues, fingerprint-ing and poisons. Ooooooohh!

Tuesday through Thursday: Time warp into the PAST!. Whoops, look out for loose

frogs! Egyptian clothing and jew-

elry… sparkles! Knights in Training with

Sir Lance-a-Lot Plastic straw catapults and

catapulted marshmallows, S’Mores anyone?

Next adventure: July 9th

Charles Steger—President Kathy Peacock—Publicity Chair Post Office Box 880 Atlanta, TX 75551 (903) 796-4456 (Charles) (903) 796-6662 (Kathy)

The resources housed in the up-per floor are property of the Atlanta Public Library, but are maintained by both the Cass County Family His-tory Center (CCFHC) and the Cass County Genealogy Society (CCGS). They are available for research, but can NOT be checked out!

The Cass County Gene-alogical Society will meet Tuesday, July 10th, 6:30 p.m., at the Horne Enter-prise Building, Pinecrest Drive at South Louise, At-lanta, Texas.

Our guest speaker will be a long-time member of CCGS, Randy Brock, who will be sharing his Brock Family history, and history of the Bryans Mills area. For further infor-mation, call 903-796-4456, or 903-796-6662.

We would like to let our members and the public know that we have a section of Quarterly Exchanges displayed in the Genealogical Section of the Library. These are Quarterly or Semi-Annual publications of other ge-nealogical societies in other Texas Counties and other states. One can also find these publications that are bound by volumes on the shelves in that county or state area, while loose ones are located on the bottom shelves of that respective state. Newly re-ceived Quarterlies are first filed in the metal wall holder on the other side of the wall that is at the top of the stairs.

Fifty Shades Darker

E L James

Forces of Nature

C J Box

Guilty Wives: A Novel

James Patterson

Into the Dream-ing

Karen M Moning

Little Night Luanne Rice

11th Hour James Patterson

Beautiful Sac-rifice

Elizabeth Lowell

Bitten in Two Jennifer Rardin

Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh

Jeff Shaara

Born of Shad-ows

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hard Back Fiction New Arrivals

Genealogy and Cass County Genealogical Society

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Lone Star Trail Darlene Franklin

Robert B Parker’s Lullaby

Ace Atkins

The Sins of the Father

Jeffrey Archer

Spring Fever Mary K Andrews

State of Wonder Ann Patchett

Webfoot Tommy G McKinney

The Bride’s Perogative

Susan P Davis

Crystal Gardens Amanda Quick

Death Comes to Pemberley

P D James

A Dog’s Journey Bruce Cameron

The Family Corleone

Edward Falco

After a certain period of time, we remove them and file these in the state which they cover. Quarterlies consist of stories of families, businesses, schools, churches, land rec-ords, deeds, wills, etc.

One will also find queries about what they are research-ing, inquiring about infor-mation from other states, espe-cially ancestors who have mi-grated westward. Occasional-ly, we will have Genealogical Societies who will exchange books they published with the books we publish. We register and file these on the shelves.

Monday Evenings - -- game night 6:00 PM 6:00 PM 6:00 PM till 8:00 PM8:00 PM8:00 PM

Tuesdays at 10:00 AM 10:00 AM 10:00 AM - - - Nimble Thimble Quilt Club

WednesdayWednesdayWednesday, 07/04 , 07/04 , 07/04 --- --- --- Library closed for Library closed for Library closed for 4th of July4th of July4th of July

Thursday, 07/05 at 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM - - - FOL Board Meeting

Thursday, 07/05 at 4:00 PM 4:00 PM 4:00 PM - - - APL Advisory Board Meeting

Tuesday, 07/10 at 6:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM - - - Cass County Genealogical Society meeting, (Every 2nd Tues)

Thursday, 07/19 at 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM - - - Regular Friends membership meeting (subject to change)

Calendar of Events… at the Library

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New Items at the library Easy Books Boys vs Girls Erica Davis

Brothers at Bat: A True... Audrey Vernick

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Walt Disney

The Duckling Gets A Cookie

Mo Willems

A Hen for Izzy Pippik Aubrey Davis

The Hero of Little Street Gregory Rogers

My “A” Book Jane B Moncure

My Color Book Carron Brown

My Number Book Patti Barber

Stage Fright Erica Davis

Token Wishes Bobbi J G Weiss

Large print An Amish Family Reun-

ion Mary Ellis

The Diva Haunts the House

Krista Davis

Here’s to Friends Melody Carlson

Kill Switch Neal Baer

Love Blooms in Winter Lori Copeland

Love Finds You in Mira-cle Kentucky

Andrea Boeshaar

Need You Now Beth Wiseman

Scarecrow Returns Matthew Reilly

Thunder of Heaven Tim F LaHaye

Touching the Sky Tracie Peterson

Young Adult The Battle for Skandia John Flanagan

The Calling Kelley Armstrong

The Changeling Philippa Gregory

City of Lost Souls Cassandra Clare

A Confusion of Princes Garth Nix

Crank Ellen Hopkins

Erak’s Ransom John Flanagan

Everlasting Alyson Noel

Fins are Forever Tera L Childs

The Girl in the Steel Corset

Kady Cross

Hummingbird Heart Robin Stevenson

Library Humor !!!i

New Items at the Library—DVD’s

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About our Organization……. Friends

Create public support for an expanding library program

Intensify Atlanta’s awareness and use of the Library

Encourage gifts, endowments and memorials for the Li-brary

Aid in public relations by in-forming Atlanta patrons

about the Library’s services and programs; communi-cating the needs of Atlanta to the Staff and Library Board.

The Adventures of Tintin

Beastly

Captain America

The Descendants

Footloose

Hugo

The Incredible Hulk

Muppet Treasure Island

The Muppets

One for the Money

Puss in Boots

Red Riding Hood

Super 8

The Three Musketeers

Wanted

Ten Inch Hero

We Bought a Zoo

Friends News

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See you at the Library !!!

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