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Groby & Field Head Spotlight • MID-NOVEMBER 2021 • Tel: 01530 244069 • Email: info@grobyspotlight.co.uk
Groby Community Library News
Heating, lighting, insurance, alarms, amongst other things, are on-going expenses that we have to pay. We also want to develop what we IT’S BEEN great to see our visitor numbers picking up over offer at the library for people in the village. We the last few weeks. are always looking for sources of income and We’re especially pleased that the café is proving so popular, no doubt due we regularly apply for grants. We are delighted to the delicious cakes, brownies and my favourite the rocky road supplied that we have once again been chosen to by our very own Lisa Clarke. For a trial period leading up to Christmas we receive funds via the Co-op Community fund. If will be opening the café on Saturday afternoons as well as the mornings. you’re already a Co-op member and shop at the So from 10am until 4pm on 13th , 20th , 27th November and 4th, 11th Laundon Way Co-op please choose us as your and 18th December. The library will close at 1pm and will not be open on cause to support, it costs you nothing and you benefit too. If not already these afternoons. We’re still looking for volunteers to help out in the café so a member why not join? Other ways to support us, at no cost to you, are are delighted ‘Time Out’ caféand isAmazon OPENSmile again. The c pop in for an application form or email volunteers@grobylibrary.co.uk if Wethrough Give as Youthat Live the www.giveasyoulive.com you’re interested. If you’ve yet to try one of the cakes why not buy some to 9thwww.smile.amazon.co.uk August the library and café will be open 6 days a week. Hou take home. We can wrap them for taking away.
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News from Groby Commu
Christmas Trail WE’RE WORKING with Bradgate Rotary on the 12 days of Christmas trail around Groby.
Thurs 10-12 Fri 2-4Charts! and Sat 10-12. Groby Library
BOOKS FROM the Sunday Times Bestsellers’
Can you spare a couple of hours a week? We’re looking for volu list, in stock at Groby Community Library: or perhaps you’d like to be a trustee? If you’re interested email 1. Kathy Reichs: The Bone Code application form in the library. 2. Santa Montefiore: Flappy Entertains
This will be on 11th Dec 10am-1pm. Pick up your map from the library, find the letters on the 12 days of Christmas posters around the village and work out the Christmas word answer. Return to the library with your answer Haig: Libraryto continue to wear face cover We 3. are Matt asking allThe ourMidnight volunteers sheet to be entered in to a prize draw. We’re hoping that Santa and his 4. Taylor Jenkins: The Seven Husbands of so too to keep everyone safe and the Covid rates down. We co sleigh will be there too!
Evelyn Hugo
Local author Anita Sivakumaran
still register with the Covid QR code.
ON 27TH NOVEMBER we’re delighted to welcome local author Anita Sivakumaran who’ll be at the library 2.303.30pm reading extracts from her books.
We 6. were sorry to say goodbye to Janet Harrison, one of our tru Stuart MacBride: The Coffinmaker’s Garden the ‘Time Out’ café offEvening the ground. wish her well in her futur 7. Ken Follett: The and the We Morning
5. Victoria Hislop: One August Night
8. Harlen Coben: Win She’ll have some available to buy too. So if you’re interested in crime you seen our new picnic tables? These have been purcha novels for adults pop in to see her. The Times describes her as “An exciting Have 9. John Grisham: A Time for Mercy new name in crime fiction” The café will be open so grab a drink and cake and Bosworth Borough Council. We’re hoping that, while the we 10. Linda LaPlante: Judas Horse and find out more about her books.
Digital services DID YOU know as a library member you have access to hundreds of digital resources for adults and children?
coffee and cake outside. We hope to use them for activities and ROZ SMITH, TRUSTEE disappointed, however, to find that within days of being installed scratched on to them. We do have CCTV covering the patio so the tables but please treat them with respect. We’d also apprec bins for their rubbish.
You can use Borrow box for eBooks & eAudiobooks, Press Reader for eNewspapers & eMagazines and Libby for eMagazines & eAudiobooks. Check out the digital services section of our website www.grobylibrary.co.uk Over for more details of how to access the services.
Raising money for Groby Community Library SINCE TAKING over the library from the County Council a few years ago the trustees knew that the library had to be self-financing when all grants from the Council ended.
the last few weeks we have received a stock of great new them are on the best seller lists.
Groby Library Charts! Books from the Sunday Times Bestsellers, in stock at Groby Co Bill Clinton and James Patterson The President's Daughter Matt Haig The Midnight Library Peter James I Follow You Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet Philippa Gregory Dark Tides Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Stephen King If It Bleeds Ian Rankin A Song for the Dark Times Lee Child and Andrew Child Sentinel.
We are so pleased that we are once again offering children age This year it’s the ‘Wild World Heroes’. Help the heroes to save t receive your folder, stickers and gifts. You need to visit the libra need to hurry as it finishes on 5th September. While you’re there
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