Christmas is almost here, and we’re all looking forward to it! If you’d like to have some books, movies or other entertainment to keep you occupied during the long weekend, though, you’d best stop in today to check things out. In order to allow us spend time with our friends and families, the library will be closing Thursday, Dec. 24 and will reopen Tuesday, Dec. 29. We will also be closed on Friday, Jan. 1, to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

Did you participate in the “Just Desserts” silent auction to raise funds for the Friends of the Jenkins County Memorial Library? We’d like to thank everyone who bid on the desserts and all those who so generously donated their baked goods to help the library!

We’re taking a little break from Storytime for the holidays, but we’ll start it up again on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 4 pm with another of our great “Let’s Cook” Storytimes, when the kids can hear a story and make their very own delicious treats to eat afterward!

Want to hear a story but don’t want to wait until January? Just pick up the phone and dial (478) 982-5898 for our Dial- A-Story! It’s a free story over the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week and it’s appropriate for all ages. This week’s story is “Snowball’s Christmas Eve”, and next week we’ll be listening to “The Story of the Three Bears”.

New to the library:

A Touch of Dead, Sookie Stackhouse, The Complete Short Stories by Charlaine Harris. From a fairy prince who gives her a very special Christmas gift (and who happens to be her great-grandfather) to a leotard-wearing Prince of the Vampires, there’s always something interesting going on in Sookie Stackhouse’s life.

Links to this and other great sites can be found at www.sjrls.org

Where’s George?

Do you ever wonder where your money goes once you spend it? Did that $1 go to Cleveland? Is that $5 now in Britain? Sign on to Where’s George and you can track some of the travels of dollar bills that have passed through our town… and just might have passed through your very own wallet. Find a bill with “Where’s George?” on it? Log it in to find where it’s been and where it goes once you spend it!

Well, that’s all for now – see you at the library!