Free Medicare Seminar at the Winston County Library
There will be a free Medicare info seminar at the Winston County Library on Wednesday, January 18 at 10:00.
Author Event at the Winston County Library- Frances Woodruff- Jan 6
Winston County Library Hosting Christmas Party for Children - Dec.16
On Friday, December 16th at 3:30, The Winston County Library will host a Christmas party for children which will include refreshments, storytime, and a toy stuffing event. Children get to take their stuffed animal home with them.
Santa Claus will also be at the library to take pictures with the children.
Santa Claus will also be at the library to take pictures with the children.
Town & Country Garden Club Christmas Tree at the Winston County Library
Jr. Auxiliary Angel Tree is Now at the Winston County Library
The annual Jr. Auxiliary Angel Tree is now at the Winston County Library and has 257 needy children who are ready to be "adopted" for Christmas. There are four drop off dates at the Louisville Fire Station, but the last date is November 26.
Fun Events at the Library This Week
Thursday, October 27 3:30 – 4:30 Monster Puppet Program for children. Come and make your own Monster Puppet to take home!
Friday, October 28 3:30 – 4:30 Teen Halloween Costume Party. Games, Prizes, Refreshments!
Friday, October 28 3:30 – 4:30 Teen Halloween Costume Party. Games, Prizes, Refreshments!
Job Opening at the Winston County Library
The Winston County Library has a job opening for a Children’s Librarian. It is a full-time 40-hour a week position, full benefits, state health insurance and state retirement. Applicants may apply by going to: www.mmrls.lib.ms.us
Judicial Forum
Judicial Forum sponsored by Winston County's Voters League
Monday, October 10, 2022 6:00 p.m.
Mt. Olive Bethel Harmony Building (MOBH) 521 Armstrong Louisville, MS 39339
Meet, listen to and ask questions of candidates vying for the position of 5th District Circuit Clerk Judge, Place 2
There are 5 candidates seeking this judgeship. Come out and ask others to come! Be Informed!!
Free Medicare Seminar at the Library - Oct.11
The Winston County Library will host a free Medicare seminar on Tuesday, October 11 from 10:00 – 12:00.
Get A Library Card, Play Bingo, and Win a Prize!
The Winston County Library is celebrating National Library Card Sign-Up Month during September. To make it fun for everyone, you can come to the library, pick up a Library Card Sign-Up Month Bingo Card, start playing, and if you complete a Bingo card, win a prize!
Goals on the bingo card include Read A Magazine, Listen To Music on Hoopla, Checkout a Cookbook, Share Your Library Love On Social Media, and Get A Library Card!
Come to the library and pick up your bingo card today!
Goals on the bingo card include Read A Magazine, Listen To Music on Hoopla, Checkout a Cookbook, Share Your Library Love On Social Media, and Get A Library Card!
Come to the library and pick up your bingo card today!
Allen Baswell Book Event - July 15
There will be an author event on Friday, July 15th from 11:30 – 1:00 at the Winston County Library. Choctaw native Allen Baswell will introduce his new book of poetry, “Mississippi Musings”. The Friends of the Library will provide brown bag lunches for participants.
Scott Hendrix Book Event - July 1
The Winston County Journal is pleased to host local author Scott Hendrix for a book talk and Q & A about his first novel, The Garden Spot. The event will take place Friday, July 1st at the library from 11:30 – 1:00. The Friends of the Library will provide brown bag lunches for the first 24 participants.
Scott Hendrix has lived in Louisville, Mississippi his entire life. He and his wife Nora Gay have two children, Sidney Louise who lives in Oxford, Mississippi and Hoyt Davis who is a senior at Mississippi State University.
Scott attended Louisville High School and graduated from Mississippi State University with a BA in Communication. He works as a Regional Sales Representative for a company based in New Jersey.
“The Garden Spot” is his first novel set in the fictional town of Lewiston, Mississippi. He is currently working on his second novel which will be a sequel. He has also written several short stories as well.
“The Garden Spot” is his first novel set in the fictional town of Lewiston, Mississippi. He is currently working on his second novel which will be a sequel. He has also written several short stories as well.
The Garden Spot, is listed as #10 on the Clarion Ledger’s Best Mississippi Reads!
IG:@writerhendrix
Please follow his social media sites to find out when Scott’s next book will be available.
IG:@writerhendrix
Facebook: S.D.Hendrix
Friends of Dean Park Presents a Friday Fish Fry Fundraiser
To benefit: The development of Friends of Dean Park's 3 1/2 acres of land for gardening and community center. Chef: Marion Jordan, County Supervisor
Check It Out At The Winston County Library!
JUNE 2022
The following FICTION books are now available for checkout at the library:
- Robyn Carr – A Family Affair
- Davis Bunn – Prime Directive
- Nancy Atherton – Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage
- Kim Michele – The Book Woman’s Daughter
- Chris Bohjalian – The Lioness
- James Pattyerson – 22 Seconds
- Robert B. Parker’s Revenge tour – Mike Lupica
- D. J. Palmer – My Wife Is Missing
- Adriana Trigiani – The Good Left Undone
- Sally Hepworth – The Good Sister
- Jennifer Weiner – The Summer Place
- Mary Kay Andrews – The Homewrecker
- Emma Straub – This Time Tomorrow
- Jack Carr – In the Blood
- Sara Paretsky – Overboard
- Sarah Jio – With Love From London
- Anne Hillerman – The Sacred Bridge
- Karen White – The Shop on Royal Street
- Allison Brenner – The Wrong Victim
- Susan Mallery – The Vineyard at Painted Moon
- Helen Hardt – Blaze
- Carolyn Brown – Long, Hot Texas Summer
- Janet Dailey – Hope Creek
- Nancy Thayer – Summer Love
- Amanda Quick -o When She Dreams
- Tarryn Fisher – An Honest Lie
- Karen Kingsbury – The Baxters: A Prequel
- Don Winslow – City on Fire
- Craig Johnson – Daughter of the Morning Star
- The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil– Tina Brown
- The Great Reset – Glenn Beck
- Snake Eyes: Murder In A Southern Town – Bitty Martin
- Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists – Bill O’Reilly
- Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior – Ric Prado
- Finding Me – Viola Davis
- Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar –Jessie Inchauspe
- The Liver Cure – Dr. Russel L. Blaylock
- Menu Pause: Five Unique Eating Plans To Break Through Your Weight Loss Plateau and
- Improve Mood, Sleep and Hot Flashes – Anna Cabeca
Sign Up For Summer Library Programs Now
This is our lobby at the Winston County Library! We are ready for the Summer Library Program! This year’s theme is “Oceans of Possibilities” and children ages 2-18 are encouraged to sign up for the programs as soon as possible. Programs will be held throughout the month of June and this year we are returning to in-person programming at the library.
Free Health & Wellness Fair
When: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 / 8:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Where: Family Center, 177 N. Columbus Ave. (Fair Elementary Campus: Building D)
Louisville, MS
Health Screenings Offered:
Blood Glucose Checks
Blood Pressure Checks
Cholesterol Screenings
Eye Pressure Checks
Additional Important Information Offered:
Healthy Living
Top Ten Health Benefits of Pottery
Excel By Five Tips
For Additional Information Call 662-773-4018
The Mississippi Poetry Society Festival - April 29 - May 1
THE MISSISSIPPI POETRY SOCIETY is holding its annual festival at Lake Tiak O’Khata in Louisville, Mississippi, April 29-May 1, 2022. Saturday morning, April 30, at 10:15, the winners of our student contest will be reading their winning poems for us. Visitors who would like to be present
for this special event will be welcome. At 11:45 that day, our KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Dr. Benjamin Morris, will be presenting his lecture “From the Delta to the Coast: Recent Trends in Contemporary Mississippi Poetry.”
Dr. Morris, a native Mississippian residing in Hattiesburg, is an award-winning poet, writer, and researcher whose work appears in the United States and Europe. Please join us in Honeysuckle Hall for one or both of these special events. Visitors who come in at other times will also be welcome.
Admission is free to visitors.
For more information, call (662) 538-8630.
For more information, call (662) 538-8630.
Check It Out At The Winston County Library!
APRIL 2022
The following FICTION books are now available for checkout at the library:
- C. J. Box – Shadows Reel
- Phillip Margolin – The Darkest Place
- Harlan Coben – The Match
- Gilly McMillan – The Long Weekend
- Marie Benedict – Her Hidden Genius
- Peter Swanson – Nine Lives
- Ellery Lloyd – The Club
- Annie Ward – Beautiful Bad
- Erica Ferencik – Girl In Ice
- Kristy Woodson Harvey – The Wedding Veil
- M. C. Beaton – Death of a Green-Eyed Monster
- Preston & Child – Diablo Mesa
- Joanne Fluke – Caramel Pecan Roll Murder
- Lucy Foley – The Paris Apartment
- J. A. Jance – Nothing To Loose
- Maisey Yates – Rancher’s Forgotten Rival
- Helen Hardt – Follow Me Under
- Janet Dailey – Calder Grit
- Adele Parks – Woman Last Seen
- Rosie Walsh – The Love of My Life
- Joseph Kanon – The Berlin Exchange
- Francine Rivers - The Lady’s Mine
- Sarah J. Maas – House of Sky & Breath
- Mark Greaney – Sierra Six
- Danielle Steel – High Stakes
- Robert Dugoni – The Silent Sisters
- Stephen King – Gwendy’s Final Task
- Dolly Parton & James Patterson – Run Rose Run
- Christine Feehan – Phantom Game
- W. E. B. Grifin – Rogue Agent
- Brad Meltzer – The Lightning Rod
- Greer Hendricks – The Golden Couple
- Adele Myers – Tobacco Wives
- Josie Silver – One Night On the Island
- How To Win The Bachelor - Chad Kultgen
- Coach K – Ian O’Connor
- The Unofficial Guide To Disneyland 2022
- Heiresses: The Lives of Million Dollar Babies – Laura Thompson
- Shadow Man: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling -Ron Franscell
- South To America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of A Nation – Imani Perry
- Watergate: A New History – Garrett M. Graff
- Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, A Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier – Susan Jonusas
- Scoundrel: How A Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment and the Courts to Set Him Free– Sarah Weinman
- Hidden History of the Mississippi Sound – Josh Foreman
- The President’s Man: The Memoirs of Nixon’s Trusted Aide -Dwight Chapin
- Who Are You Following? Pursuing Jesus in a Media-Obsessed World-- Sadie Robertson Huff
- The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America’s UFO Highway – Ben Mezrich
- The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How the Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, And an Extraordinary Reckoning – Ben Raines
- Delta Hot Tamales: History, Stories and Recipes – Anne Martin
- Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain – Bradley Bale, M. D.
- The Unofficial BTS Bible – Dianne Pineda-Kim
Memorial Day Services
Center Ridge Church will have their Memorial Service on Sunday, May 1, 2022 beginning at 11:00 AM with Bro. Mike Dowd bringing message. Lunch to follow in the fellowship hall.
Pleasant Hill Methodist Church will have their Memorial Service Sunday, May 8, 2022 beginning at 11:00 AM with Rodney Glover bringing message. Lunch to follow in the fellowship hall.
Winston County Library Celebrating Women's History Month
March is Women’s History Month and the Winston County Library is celebrating with this wonderful display in their library. All books inside the case are by Mississippi women authors!
Check It Out At The Winston County Library!
MARCH 2022
The following FICTION books are now available for checkout at the library:- James Patterson – Steal
- Helen Hardt – Follow Me Always
- Sarah Jio – With Love From London
- Brenda Janowitz – The Liz Taylor Ring
- Tracie Peterson – Ever Constant
- Christine Feehan – Savage Road
- Heather Gudenkauf – The Overnight Guest
- Dean Koontz – Quick Silver
- Jacqueline Mitchard – The Good Son
- Isabel Allende – Violetta
- Katherine Faulkner – Greenwich Park
- Stacey Abrams – Never Tell
- Matt Coyle – Blood Truth
- Tim Dorsey – Mermaid Confidential
- Viola Shipman – The Scent of Snow
- Toni Morrison – Recatatif
- Brenda Jackson – Finding Home Again
- Allison Buccola – Catch Her When She Falls
- Maria Amparo Escandon – L. A. Weather
- Nina de Gramont – The Christie Affair
- Eliza Jane Brazier – Good Rich People
- Charles Todd – A Game of Fear
- Jonathan Kellerman – City of Death
- J. D. Robb – Abandoned in Death
- Karen White – The Attic on Queen Street
- Alice Feeney – His & Hers
- Gregg Hurwitz – Dark Horse
The following NON-FICTION BOOKS are now available for checkout at the library:
- COPD: Answers To Your Most Pressing Questions – Donald A. Mahler, M.D.
- The Caregivers Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease
- The Caregivers Guide to Dementia
- Hidden History of Jackson, MS – Josh Foreman
- The Power of Thank You – Joyce Meyer
- Beyond Keto: Burn Fat, Heal Your Gut and Reverse Disease – Don Colbert, M.D.
- Chasing History – Carl Bernstein
- The Big, Fun Baking Book for Kids
- Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell and the End of An American Family – John Glatt
- All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team – Christina Soontornrat
- Baby Steps Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth, and How You Can, Too – Dave Ramsey
- The Defense Lawyer – James Patterson
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland – Jim De Fede
- The Secret History of Food: Strange But True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat – Matt Siegel
- When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling and Justice in a Small Town – John Douglas
Help Name The New MMRLS Children’s Mascot!
Stop by the Winston County Library and give your name suggestion for the new MMRLS Children's Mascot.
Braves Bookworm Challenge
Students can win 2 free tickets to a 2022 Braves regular-season home game by reading 400 minutes by the end of March. That’s about 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 4 weeks. Very doable!
The deadline for the Mississippi Braves Bookworm Challenge is April 1st. A Parent/Guardian Letter verifying the child has read 400 hours must be turned in by April 1st. The letter is available at the library or can be downloaded at Midmisslibrary.com/Braves website.
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