Library summer reading sails away on smiles
      As children "Sailed Away With Books" for the last Thursday this summer they sang the theme song Sail Away With Books,' by Lucas Miller. Carrie Cook, a patron of the children's library reading program, did sign language to the song 'Only Jesus.
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Author helps library raise awareness
      Best selling author John Foxjohn will be the guest of the Jasper Public Library and Beaty- Orton House July 12 from 5 - 6:30 p.m. to raise money and awareness for the library and Beaty-Orton House. Foxjohn will speak and aswer questions about becoming a published author.
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Faces & Places
      CASA Program Advocates for Children, a CASA program, is having volunteer training classes July 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Applications must be completed and sent from the Jasper office, call 384-2272.
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Red Hat Society
'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple with a red hat, which doesn't go and doesn't suit me...Maybe I ought to practice now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised when suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.' - Jenny Joseph -
      It's a little hard to pin down what a Red Hat Society is, when the first and only rule is: the spirit of the Red Hat Society forbids rules. Some chapters go so far as to have an anti-parliamentarian who enforces the rule that there are no rules.
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