Congratulations to our holiday memories winning writers!

Congratulations to the winners of the West Room Writer’s “Holiday Memories” Creative Writing Contest! The Junior Division winner of the contest is William Bonila, and the Senior Division winner is Keegan Starkey. Both William and Keegan won a $25 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble, sponsored by Town and Country Paving of DeMotte. Second place winner in the Senior Division is Alice Santell, who won a $15 gift card to Barnes and Noble, sponsored by the Jasper County 4-H Creative Writing Project.

The West Room Writers, a group of teens in grades 4-12 who love to write creatively, will meet again on Thursday, January 20 from 5:30-6:30 pm at the Demotte Library, where rules for the upcoming “Valentine Poetry Contest” will be announced, and other fun writing activities will be the order of the meeting.

Join us, and find out more about the West Room Writers or register to attend by logging onto the library’s website at www.myjcpl.org or calling the DeMotte Library at 987-2221.

JCPL Extends Thanks for Gifts and Donations

At the Jasper County Public Library we strive to be a leader in our community, to provide information, recreation, cultural offerings, and lifelong learning opportunities for our citizens.

Our goal is to offer traditional library services while keeping pace with new methods of storing and transferring information and knowledge. We strive to provide the programs and services that are most needed in our community.

Indiana public libraries are funded primarily by county property taxes, but in addition to that revenue, we often receive monetary gifts from you. Those gifts are deposited into the Library Gift Fund of your choice; DeMotte, Rensselaer, or Wheatfield, and are used to purchase books, AV materials, magazine subscriptions, furniture and equipment, as well as program prizes and refreshments. Your gifts also support adult and children’s programs.

In addition, many of you support the library with your time as you actively volunteer or become a member of one of our Friends of the Library groups. We greatly appreciate your monetary gifts and the other wonderful ways you support your library. We couldn’t do all the things we do without your support!

As we wrap up 2010 we want to take this time to thank you for supporting your library with your gifts; your gifts of time and money. You make it possible for us to inform, enrich, and empower our diverse community, and we are grateful!