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Features March 11, 2010  RSS feed

Representative View
     IT WAS A DELIGHT to see folks this past week at Town Meeting, and in particular to be able to put faces to email messages. Keep the messages coming; it is invaluable to have a sense of the issues and concerns that are of the greatest urgency to you.
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Thoughts of an Average Joe
The 35th Annual Smalltown Boys Ice Fishing Extravaganza
     PEOPLE WHO complain that baseball is a slow moving, boring sport have never been ice fishing. I’ve just returned from the 35th Annual Smalltown Boys Ice Fishing/Beer Drinking/Fish Tale Embellishing Extravaganza, and I’m suffering from severe sensory deprivation.
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Ex Libris
Brown Public Library
      FREE TALK, Preserving Personal & Family History using Oral History techniques Date: Thursday, March 11th Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Brown Public Library, Northfield Cost: FREE
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Kellogg-Hubbard Library
      Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:00-8:00pm
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How Much Do You Know About St Patrick's Day?
     1. Where is it rumored that leprechauns bury their pots of gold? 2. In St. Patrick’s time, who ranked as high as kings? 3. What was St. Patrick rumored to have removed from Ireland? 4. The first St. Patrick’s Day was held in what city during the American Revolution? 5. What two rivers are dyed green every year on St. Patrick’s Day in the
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Ask the HOME TEAM
      My grandson and his wife gave me a heated mattress pad this winter so I could have a warm bed to get into at night. They said it saves $131 per year on energy bills, but I don’t see the logic in that so I haven’t used it.
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The Body
     It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6 lb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
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NEWS FROM THE HILL
     IN THE EARLY 1900’s women across the world were struggling with numerous social and economic issues. These included the right to vote, fair wages, safe working conditions and healthcare. The first International Women’s Day was held in 1911 and in 1914 the date was permanently moved to March 8.
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Roxbury Free Library News
      LIBRARY BUDGET REQUEST PASSES AT TOWN MEETING: Many thanks to the people of Roxbury, who approved the library’s $12,000 budget request for FY 2010-2011. The library trustees will fundraise an additional $4,300, almost ? of the total projected operating budget.
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Answers to “How Well Do You Know St. Patrick’s Day?”
     1. Of course, at the end of the rainbow. 2. Poets 3. Snakes 4. Boston 5. The Chicago River and the San Antonio River 6. By pounding on drums 7. It is the day St. Patrick was said to have died 8. Shamrocks 9. Making their shoes 10. You get pinched
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Ainsworth Public Library
      SPECIAL APPRECIATION TO ANN HEGARTY
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Silly Social Scenes
      PROFITING FROM NUKULAR FALLOUT – As we were typing our latest report on the nefarious deeds of the Three Municipal Stooges, we were interrupted by a bellowing such as an enraged bull calf might make. Assuming it to be the greentinged Chief Nylon, we never looked up from our typewriter, merely suggesting that he take a seat.
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