By GINA RAE | Wilton Public Library director
The Wilton Public Library will provide games for kids after the Wood Turtle parade on Sunday, Aug. 6, in the parking lot in front of the Wilton swimming pool. Look for us by the Wilton Police Department’s bike rodeo. Registration for bike rodeo begins at 2:15 p.m., with the drawing for free bicycles at 3:15 p.m.
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Tickets are sold out for our community-theatre library fundraiser. “Yard Sale” is an original comedy prepared for you by our community theatre cast of small-town thespians. The cast members spent 26 evenings of their summer rehearsing for this show.
The library will close at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4, so that we can prepare for our production. We will be open our regular hours (9–11:30 a.m.) on Saturday.
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The library will host the Little Miss Wilton Pageant at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3. For more information, contact Rosalynda Ballwahn at 487-0148.
Join us Wednesday, Aug. 9, as we celebrate the close of another great Wood Turtle Days and offer our “Story Time with Wood Royalty” program. Little Miss Wiltons of past and present will share stories and memories of summer reading program.
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In 2000, the library prepared a time capsule to be opened at a later date. The time is now! We will open the capsule before the Little Miss Wilton Pageant on Thursday, Aug. 3. For a complete list of time capsule participants, please visit the library’s Facebook page.
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The library is excited to sponsor a community-wide walking/running club! Wilton Walks on Wednesdays is a fun way for people of all ages to get moving. Participants may choose 8:30 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. to walk (or run) a designated one-fourth-mile or one-half-mile trail through our beautiful park.
We will help you track your distance over the summer, and there will be incentives to keep moving all summer long. Children and dogs both make great walking partners and are encouraged to participate. (Participants engage with the understanding they do so at their own risk and that the sponsoring groups are not liable for injury or accidents that may occur.)
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Do you have a child who loves dogs? We have a therapy dog that works in our building that would love to be read to by your child. This dog is safe, certified and insured for working with children or adults. Call the library for arrangements at 435-6710.
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The library’s chess club, The Check Mates, meets the first and third Tuesday of every month; our next meeting is Aug. 15 at 4 p.m. Players of all levels of experience are invited to attend.
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Summer is a great time for preschoolers to sign up for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten. It is what it sounds like: a commitment to read 1,000 books to your preschooler before he or she turns 5 years old. Though 1,000 books sound like an ambitious goal, by reading just three books a day, you can read more than 1,000 books in just one year. So pick out some books and start enjoying some productive lap time with your child.