Cedar Rapids and Hiawatha Library Programs This Week
Cedar Rapids Public Library offers Midweek Music with flutist Joanne Chadima and pianist Sharon Fuller at noon on Wednesday at Jem's Deli on the library’s second floor. Author Mo na Z Smith discusses patriotism and activism at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Beems Auditorium and noon at the African American Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa. Smith promotes Becoming Something, about Canada Lee, with co sponsorship by the museum and library. Hiawatha Public Library features Friday Night Film Series with Wolves in the Snow, a Saturday book sale by Friends of the Library, and a fall reading program Reading's the Ticket 2004 running through Nov 27 with weekly prize drawings.
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Blanket-square project seeks volunteers at MARION-Michaels
MARION Michaels Stores launched biannual Warm-Up America to craft blankets from knitted or crocheted squares donated by customers. Since a three year span, over 450 000 squares have funded thousands of blankets for local charities across the United States and Canada. Volunteers can pick up a project sheet through Oct 29 and drop off finished squares at 1470 Twixt Town Rd. The Oct 30 weekend Free Joining Party will assemble blankets for local charities such as Mercy Hospice St. Luke's Hospice Lutheran Social Services Ronald McDonald House and others.
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History Center offers tours and talks in Cedar Rapids
Souvenir Sunday bus tour of Linn County country schools led by Mark Hunter and Barb Feller costs 15 dollars for members and children, 25 dollars for non members, includes transport and lunch. Other events include Lewis Bottoms history talk, Warehouse District walking tour, and Family Free Day with old time radio exhibit and time machine.
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