August at the Arts Center

It’s August, the final month of summer, and the Fosston Community Library Arts Center has a number of opportunities to help you make the most of that limited time before fall is upon us once again. Here is a list of possibilities.
1. Sign up for the summer reading program for children, teens and adults. It will continue through the month. It’s not too late to read enough books to qualify for the prize drawings, but you better get started soon.
2. Get your tickets for Every Little Crook and Nanny, this year’s community theater production. Performances are August 11-13 at 7 p.m. with a matinee at 3 p.m. on August 14. This comedy about nice old ladies and a bank heist is suitable for the whole family (and for nice old ladies). Tickets are available at Generations Clothing (435-1676) and at the door.
3. Learn a foreign language with Mango, an on-line language learning system now available through the LARL Web site. Over 70 language courses are available and it’s free.
4. Volunteer to become a member of one of the Fosston Community Library Arts Association’s committees. The music committee is especially looking for volunteers. Call FCLAA board president Bonnie Stewart (435-6119) or me (435-6710) for more information.
5. Plan to attend writers’ group when it resumes meeting in September. You can start working on your “What I Did on my Summer Vacation” essay now.
6. View the art work currently on display at the arts center. Paintings by Molly Yergens are in the Sorenson Gallery. Works by student artist Abbey Kindall are in the upper gallery through the first week in August.
7. Have a free cup of coffee, latte or cappuccino and meet Sue Thompson, Community Facilitator for Parent Community Network and Chemical Free Polk County at the
Polk County Traveling Coffee Shop on Monday, August 15, 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
8. If the heat is too much for you, come and hang out in the air-conditioned comfort of the library.