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Well Struck, Sir: Historic Base Ball
in Chelsea
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Monitors Base Ball Club | Photo: Dave Brenner
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Captain
"Honest Jon" Van Hoek
Photo: Dave Brenner
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Join captain "Honest Jon" Van Hoek and other members of the Monitor Base Ball Club of Chelsea for a fun look at old-time base ball. Part of the Chelsea Area Historical Society, the Monitors are an amateur community club playing baseball by the rules of 1860. Come find out more about the history of our nation's pastime and the modern phenomenon of vintage base ball. "Like" the Monitors on Facebook for updates and game schedule.
Thursday, May 23 | 7-8pm
McKune Room | Registration Required
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Events this Week
Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint-Part I | An introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. We'll begin by setting up a basic presentation, add slide content, input simple graphics, and then continue with layout, editing, formatting, arranging slides, saving, and playing the presentation.
Tuesday, May 14
Babytime | Introduce your baby or toddler to the wonderful world of books. We'll be singing songs, doing bouncy rhymes, learning some "baby signing" and reading along to fun board books.
Wednesday, May 15
Spring Storytime | Our youth librarians will introduce your child to the wonderful world of books by reading great stories, singing funny songs, and making each story come alive through puppets, fingerplays and movement.
Thursday, May 16
Open Play | Open Play gives children ages four and younger an opportunity to meet and play with other children in a fun, safe, and child friendly environment while enabling caregivers to socialize. We'll provide age appropriate toys.
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Summer Newsletter
Sneak Peek
Our summer newsletter should land in mailboxes next week! But why wait? Start planning your summer now. Take a sneak peek at our latest newsletter and mark your calendars. Registration opens Friday, May 17 at 10am.
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Friends of Chelsea District Library Used Book Sale
The next Friends of Chelsea District Library Used Book Sale is Saturday, May 11 from 10am-3pm in the library's basement.
Find thousands of beautiful books, CDs, DVDs, audio books and more available for purchase. Proceeds from the sales are used to support the library. For updates and to learn more about the Friends of Chelsea District Library, check out their Facebook page.
The Friends will be selling the library's used computers at this book sale.
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Library Closings &
Summer Hours
The library will be closed
Sunday, May 26 [shared system unavailable] and Monday, May 27 in observance of Memorial Day.
Summer hours begin Tuesday, May 28:
Monday-Thursday
Friday
10am-6pm
Saturday
Sunday
1-5pm
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About Us
The Chelsea District Library is nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide equal access to quality resources that serve the lifelong cultural, educational and informational needs and interests of all people.The library currently serves 14,000 residents in the Chelsea district - City of Chelsea plus Dexter, Lima, Lyndon and Sylvan townships and more than 20,000 individuals visit the library each month. The library's state-of-the-art facility is an access point for information. In addition to providing dynamic services to complement and support local schools and other important community needs, the Chelsea District Library strives to present timely, interesting and high-quality programs and events to engage and enrich the Chelsea community.
Sincerely,
Anna Cangialosi, Marketing Coordinator
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