Footnotes
Settle in for summer at the VZC Library
Pay attention kids! The schedule for the summer reading is out! Starting at 1 p.m. June 10; 10 a.m. June 12,19 and 26; and in at 10 a.m. July 10,17, and 24 all children are invited to attend the fun-filled summer reading program at the Van Zandt County library.
Participants must attend five programs to be eligible for the grand prize drawing. There will be other prizes each week.
Some of the services the library offers are work stations for your laptops, free Wi-Fi, reference works about wills and family trusts while relaxing in rockers on the front porch, young adult fiction that can be challenging, large print books, movies for checkout, audio tapes and more for your commuting.
Also, don’t miss the special display sections like the current one, “It’s not easy being green,” library hours on Thursdays are noon until 8 p.m., computer classes, magazines, local, county, Tyler and Dallas daily newspapers and Friends of the Library are just a few of the services that the library offers. Just ask the library staff!
An important area for supporting the library is through memorials. Gifts you send to Friends of the Library (P.O. Box 1072, Canton) are used to enhance special events that are held on a year round basis to encourage people to read. Children especially are beneficiaries of these programs. A computer is no good if a child cannot read and comprehend.
Volunteer opportunities abound at the VZC library. Regular help at the desk, sorting, and other weekly chores, as well as extra hands at special times can be a way for service. Youngsters often fill special slots. Ask the library staff for more information on becoming a volunteer.
Recent memorials from Martha and Henry Lewis include Cash Wiley and Charles Baker. Tony and Nancy Etheridge remembered Horace Fugate.
Van Zandt County Trivia: David Wren was born in 1956, and while in Canton High School, wrote “Every First Monday” a history of the phenomenon of First Monday and of Canton. A copy is in the Texas Section of the Library. Try it. You might learn something.
