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By Spencer Perkins

By Roy Knox

By Nancy Murillo

Come to the Public Library to learn. Through a Gateway to Libraries Grant, we offer ESL (English as  a Second Language) classes every Saturday morning from 10 a.m. until noon. This month we will start our General Equivalency Diploma (GED) classes on Friday afternoons (time to be determined).
These classes and their instructors are paid for from grant funds and are offered free to the participants. Please come out and take advantage of these learning opportunities.
The Public Library holds story time every Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. The program lasts about 30-40 minutes and we have some fabulous volunteers that read to your children. Please work us into your after school schedule on Thursdays. We are having lots of fun and would love for you to join us.
 

by Debbie Knox

By Roy Knox

By Roy Knox

Come in out of the cold and take advantage of the new technology the Pittsburg Camp County Public Library offers you. The new public access computers, that the library received through a generous grant from the Tocker Foundation, are installed and working great. We have chosen the Linux based Userful system with authentication, which means that we will issue Internet Use Cards so you can login with your own number. This will automate the process much better. And, you can still use Microsoft Office products through this new system by creating an online account at outlook.com.  Thank you to the Tocker Foundation and Userful Computer Solutions for hooking us up!

Dear Editor

This is to the lady driving a white SUV with a dented front left fender  that dropped off two puppies at our property in Leesburg, TX, Sunday, December 15th.
There was one black male and one white female.  They both had collars on and they were left with a small bag of food, a towel and were in a blue plastic tote.   Oh, yes and a note (partial because half of it was torn off).  The main message in the note said “Please love these pups.  We do, but are homeless…..cannot keep them safe.  (part of the message torn off)  but it said  “is hurt from……they have…..6 days ago….scared…them….Sorry didn’t know ….How to keep them alive as they are good……you….Merry”    
I don’t know what she was trying to tell us, but one of the puppies is hurt and his jaw is swollen.   She (lady in the white SVY) needs to come get her puppies and take care of them.

By Greg Abbott

It`s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around our house. The tree is up and is loaded to the max with lights and ornaments.
Wreaths are hanging from almost every wall, snow babies and snow villages occupy the shelves and tops of cabinets.
I have cleaned the fireplace and chimney so Santa Claus will have easy access through the game room all the way to the Christmas tree.
I also checked the roof to make sure it would withstand the weight of a sled and a bunch of reindeer.
This will be my 60th Christmas and I pretty much know what to do. What I am is lacking the Christmas spirit that I had as a child. I`m not sure where or when I lost it, but I don`t think it has anything to do with your age.
My mother-in-law Ruth Mayben Brown was almost giddy this time of year, and as she used to point out “I`m no spring chicken.”
 What enables some people to retain that youthful excitement throughout their lives?