Learn About Space and Tenant Rights and Stop the "Summer Slide" at the Library
Next up in the Library series inviting us to look up and Explore Space is a program that looks, instead, at what came from space and landed in Weaubleau, Decaturville and Crooked Creek.
All three Missouri towns are sites of meteorite impact structures believed to be several hundred million years old, plus or minus 80 million years. Fascinating enough, but at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 25, in the Library Center auditorium, Missouri State University geology professor Kevin Evans will reveal even more.
All three are aligned across the Missouri Ozarks – from St. Clair, to Camden to Crawford counties. Evans says some investigators have suggested that they resulted from “serial impacts” comparable to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 cometary impacts on Jupiter in 1994. Evans will discuss the Missouri sites and what might have happened there.
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Did your children lose anything this summer? If they haven’t been reading something every day, they might have lost important reading skills they’ll need this fall. Experts say kids need to exercise their “reading muscles” daily over summer to maintain and strengthen their literacy skills.
It’s not too late to stop that “summer slide,” and they can still earn physical rewards and prizes in the Library’s Summer Reading Program through Aug. 12. All ages of kids, teens and adults can sign up, log their reading on thelibrary.org/buildabetterworld, and be entered into prize drawings.
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Planning a trip out of town soon? Take the library with you – and it won’t add an ounce of weight. Simply download an e-book, audiobook, a magazine or movie to your portable device. See what’s available and how to download your favorite titles at thelibrary.org/digital.
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Landlord and tenant disputes are a stressful part of the rental process. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 26, in the Library Station Santa Fe Room, attorney Joe Hills with Legal Services of Southern Missouri will discuss the legal rights and protections available to tenants as well as what to expect when navigating the court process. Tenants: Know Your Rights is free and open to the public.
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