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Growing your own veggies fills the larder and the soul | Plant Life
Lorene Edwards Forkner pickles green beans in her West Seattle kitchen on an August afternoon.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:09:10 GMT

Battle of the Books Attracts Local Readers to Springfield
The best and brightest young readers from our area tested their minds against each other Saturday,A as 485 students faced off in the Regional Oregon Battle of the Books Tournament.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:02:15 GMT

Program Updates
LITERACY Reading is Fundamental and Macy's have teamed up to create a national partnership supporting children's literacy: Be One For the Books! This program will help RIF expand its outreach to children who lack adequate access to books and who are at the greatest risk for reading difficulties.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:49:32 GMT

Reading for the blind: Your voice could be my eyes
Volunteers come into the soundproof recording studios of the Talking Library to record narrated audio books for the blind.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:46:50 GMT

Book smarts
The library offers the following new titles to their patrons: Deadly Little Lies by Laurie F. Stolarz, fiction Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan, fiction The Wild Zone by Joy Fielding, fiction Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates, fiction The Road to Devotion by Cameron Kent, fiction Day After Night by Anita Diamant, large print fiction U is ...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:36:29 GMT