CCPL’s Literary Pumpkin Decorating Contest is BACK!

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We begin accepting entries for our Literary Pumpkin Decorating Contest on TUESDAY (October 15-19)!!
We can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!

The Central City Public Library is hosting a Literary Pumpkin Decorating Contest that
begins on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 and lasts through Saturday, October 19, 2024.
Decorate a pumpkin or gourd (real or artificial) as a book character or with a literary theme and drop it
off at the CC Public Library’s front desk for display until October 25. The public will vote for “People’s
Choice Awards” in four categories (age 10 & under, age 11-18, age 19 & over, and Family entry).
Winners will be announced on October 25, 2024. Winners in each category will receive prizes!
Contest Rules:

  • The library cannot accept carved pumpkin/gourd submissions. Only painted and/or decorated
    whole pumpkin/gourd submissions may be entered into the contest.
  • Submissions will not be accepted before Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 9 am.
  • All contest submissions must be accompanied by an entry form.
  • Contest submission must be turned into library staff by Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 1:00pm.
    Late pumpkin submissions will not be accepted.
  • One winner will be chosen from each of the following categories: age 10 & under, age 11-18,
    age 19 & over, and Family entry.
  • All pumpkins must be picked up by 1:00pm Saturday, October 26, 2024. Pumpkins/gourds
    that are not picked up by this time will be disposed of.

Click below for Contest Entry Form and for more information:

http://libraries.ne.gov/centralcity/files/2024/10/Pumpkin-Entry-Form-2024-1-1.pdf

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Congratulations to Sally Bankson! She’s the 2024 Recipient of the Mad Hatter Award!

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๐ŸŽ‰ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ง๐ค๐ฌ๐จ๐ง! ๐ŸŽ‰

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐’๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ง๐ค๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ ๐Œ๐š๐ ๐‡๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐›๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ค๐š ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง!

๐™๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ง๐™™ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ง๐™š๐™˜๐™ค๐™œ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ž๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™˜๐™๐™ž๐™ก๐™™๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ’๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š’๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™—๐™ง๐™–๐™ง๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™๐™ž๐™ฅ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™‰๐™š๐™—๐™ง๐™–๐™จ๐™ ๐™–.

Here to present the award were special guests Holli Duggan and Sally Snyder from the Nebraska Library Commission, who serve as liaisons to the Nebraska Library Association‘s Awards Committee. We were also joined by Jessica Wilkinson, Director of Crete Public Library (last year’s Mad Hatter Award recipient).

CCPL’s staff members as well as Sally’s family were thrilled to celebrate this well-deserved recognition of her hard work and dedication.

We are so proud of Sally’s achievement and grateful for all the incredible contributions she has made to our library and community. ๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ“š

Comments from the two nomination letters included statements such as:

โœ…“๐™ƒ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ซ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™œ๐™ง๐™–๐™ข๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™™๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™ข๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™–๐™œ๐™š๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ, ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™™๐™ซ๐™ค๐™˜๐™–๐™˜๐™ฎ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฎ, ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™›๐™š๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก ๐™œ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ ๐™š ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™˜๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ž๐™™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ง.”

โœ…“๐™Ž๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™‡๐™ž๐™—๐™ง๐™–๐™ง๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ. ๐™Ž๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ค ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™š๐™›๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™œ๐™ง๐™–๐™ข๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™จ. ๐™Ž๐™๐™š ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™–๐™›๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™จ๐™ž๐™™๐™š ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ค๐™ญ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ. ๐™Ž๐™๐™š ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š๐™จ, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ ๐™š๐™จ ๐™– ๐™œ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™—๐™ง๐™–๐™ง๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ.”

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So Many NEW BOOKS at CCPL!

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We’ve added SO MANY NEW BOOKS ฮฑฦš CCPL that it’s tough to choose what to read next!

๐Ÿ“ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ–-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ-๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐.ย ๐Ÿ“ฑ

๐Ÿ“šBad Liar by Tami Hoag (release date 9/24/24)

๐Ÿ“šThe Booklover’s Library by Madeline Martin

๐Ÿ“šSleep Tight by J.H. Markert

๐Ÿ“šWe Need No Wings by Ann Dรกvila Cardinal

๐Ÿ“šDen of Iniquity: J.P. Beaumont #23 by J.A. Jance

๐Ÿ“šHere One Moment by Liane Moriarty

๐Ÿ“šPassions in Death: an Eve Dallas novel by J.D. Robb

๐Ÿ“šRobert B. Parker’s Buzz Kill (Sunny Randall Book 12) by Alison Gaylin

๐Ÿ“šThe Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak

๐Ÿ“šLethal Standoff by DiAnn Mills

๐Ÿ“šThe Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave

๐Ÿ“šBefore We Were Us by Denise Hunter

๐Ÿ“šWhen We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman

๐Ÿ“šThe Closing Days by Isac Kovach

๐Ÿ“šCounting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks (release date 9/24/24)

๐Ÿ“šDisconnected Kids, Third Edition: The Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Disorders (by Dr. Robert Melillo

๐Ÿ“šOut of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O’Connor

๐Ÿ“šConfronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

๐Ÿ“šGood Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means MD

๐Ÿ“šFreaky Folklore: Terrifying Tales of the World’s Most Elusive Monsters and Enigmatic Cryptids

๐Ÿ“šWhere Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy by David Rohde

๐ŸŽฅInside Out 2 (DVD-movie)

Check out what’s new and popular at CCPL here: https://centralcity.biblionix.com/catalog/

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Congrats to the Winners of our Bronze Dedication Door Prizes!

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๐–๐žโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ณ๐žย ๐๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐ž๐ฌ:
๐‡๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ง ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ค, ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ก ๐๐š๐ฎ๐ฉ, ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ž ๐–๐ฎ๐ฅ๐Ÿ, ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‰๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‹๐š๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ž ๐™๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ!ย ๐Ÿ†โœจ
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Enjoy your prizes, and thank you for being a part of this memorable day!
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You’re Invited! Patricia Campbell Memorial Bronze Dedication on September 11th, 2024

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๐’๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐Œ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐๐‘๐Ž๐๐™๐„ ๐ƒ๐„๐ƒ๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐!๐ŸŽˆ
๐–๐ž๐๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ“๐ฉ๐ฆ-๐Ÿ”๐ฉ๐ฆ.
Brief remarks begin at 5:00pm
Enjoy refreshments and enter prize giveaways!๐Ÿ˜ฎ
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Congrats to Our Prize Winners from the Final Week of the Adult & Teen Summer Reading Programs!

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Congratulations to our Prize Winners from the Final Week of the Adult & Teen Summer Reading Programs! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ˜ฒ

๐ŸถAbigale Burkhardt: a ceramic bird, a booklight, colored pencil set, “Twin Flames: by Olivia Abtahi, a sticky note pad, and Bison Bucks.

๐ŸถAlaina Vesely: an acrylic photo frame, a sticky note pad, Bison Bucks, “Kind People are My Kind of People” ceramic block, and a ๐ŸถDestiny Cox: Bison Bucks, a tri-color highlighter, a sticky note pad, an LED starry projection light, and a glitter pen set.

๐ŸถBrittany McPhillips: “Welcome to Our Hive” plant pick, mini garden shovel, “Bloom & Grow” coffee mug, a potholder, and a decorative dish towel.

๐ŸถSuzanne Philippi: a garden coffee mug, a ladybug plant pick, decorative potholder and tablerunner.

๐ŸถKaty Lovejoy: cat vehicle coasters, wooden bicycle decoration, bird’s nest plant pick, cat bookbag, decorative dish towel, and “Other Birds” by Sarah Addison Allen.

The adults and teens read an impressive total of 1,246 books during June and July! ๐Ÿ“–

Thank you to everyone who participated!๐Ÿคฉ

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Congratulations to the Week 7 Summer Reading Program Prize Winner!

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๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐€๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ & ๐“๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐’๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ (๐–๐ž๐ž๐ค 7), ๐๐‘๐ˆ๐™๐„ ๐–๐ˆ๐๐๐„๐‘๐’!๐Ÿ˜ฒ

๐ŸถElla Zimmerman: a gift card, set of 24 colored pencils, and the “Thomas Kinkade Studios: Disney Princess Coloring Book.”

๐ŸถElla Birnie: Bison Bucks, an “Always be Yourself Unless You Can be a Giraffe” zippered bag, and a diamond painting kit.

๐ŸถTara Burkhardt: a gift card, a potholder, and a rainy days candle.

๐ŸถZephi Perea: Bison Bucks, “The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave, a gnome plant pick, and a cat book tote.

๐ŸถMcKinley Mankin: Bison Bucks, a diamond painting kit, a dinosaur stress ball, and a cat tote bag.

๐ŸถAdelain Mankin: Bison Bucks, a stick note pad, and an astronaut LED desk lamp.

๐ŸถTiffani Wymer: a “Taking it Easy” coffee mug, a flavored coffee pod, a gift card, a metal frog plant pick and a decorative kitchen towel.

โœ”๏ธ ๐•‹๐•™๐•– ๐•„๐•†โ„๐”ผ ๐•ช๐• ๐•ฆ ๐•ฃ๐•–๐•’๐••, ๐•ฅ๐•™๐•– ๐•„๐•†โ„๐”ผ ๐•”๐•™๐•’๐•Ÿ๐•”๐•–๐•ค ๐•ช๐• ๐•ฆ’๐•๐• ๐•™๐•’๐•ง๐•– ๐•ฅ๐•  ๐•จ๐•š๐•Ÿ!

FIND OUT everything you need to know ABOUT THE SUMMER READING PROGRAM here:

http://libraries.ne.gov/centralcity/

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