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Cooking Down Home with the Neelys
Gina and Pat Neelys first cookbook, Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook, is climbing the bestseller lists. With more than 120 original Southern recipes passed down from one Neely generation to the next, many of their signature dishes are featured...
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December Closings Announced for Chestatee Regional Library System
From Thursday, December 24 through Friday, January 1, 2010, the library will be closed.  No book drops will be open. Patrons should keep books and materials at home until the library system reopens. No fines will be charged during the closure week...
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Chestatee Regional Library System Announces Holiday Closing
The Library will be closed Thursday, November 26 through Saturday, November 28 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday...
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Become a Facebook Fan for Your Library
Become a fan and receive updates on upcoming programs, start an online book discussion, post comments about your library service or a book you have read, and view pictures from local Dawson and Lumpkin County library events...
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Where Does the Institution of Marriage Stand in Today's Culture?
One local counselor says it’s alive and well!  Barbara J. Peters, RN, LPC, NCC, is confident that marriage can and will endure the test of time. In her new book, Peters offers a formula that has never been suggested before with regard to building, growing and keeping a marriage healthy and long-lasting...
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Chestatee Regional Library System Closed for Veteran's Day
Library System will be closed Wednesday, November 11th in observance of the Veteran’s Day holiday...
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Food for Fines at Chestatee Regional Library System
Throughout November, Lumpkin County Library and Dawson County Library will accept two cans or boxes of non-perishable food for each one dollar of fines...
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Whatever Happened to the American Dream?
Retired CEO and author, G. Web Ross, believes that it is the changing values of executives, entrepreneurs and employees – not the recession – that is to blame for most of our woes...
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Zachary Karabell to speak at North Georgia College & State University
Dr. Karabell is a contributor on CNBC, a writer for The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, and a commentator on CNN and NBC Nightly News...
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Upcoming Programs at Lumpkin County Library
Your library offers a lot more than just great books.  Check out the ongoing programs that are geared to children, teens and every age, including adults.  And for those seeking employment, a job search series offers dynamic programs...
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Best-selling Author Kathryn Stockett Set for Brenau Appearance Sept. 23
Her book, “The Help,” is set in Mississippi in the racially torn early 1960s. It is a story of three women —two black, one white— who decide to dramatically break down the barriers of their racially segregated society...
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New Book Looks at Narcissistic Male
It’s All About Him: How To Identify and Avoid the Narcissistic Male is an informative, quick-read that helps women understand what makes these men tick!  Given the right tools, women will be better equipped to avoid such involvements in the first place...
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Get the Smartest Card at Your Library
Getting a library card is easy.  Simply stop by your library with proper identification such as a valid driver’s license or photo ID with correct address or a photo ID without correct address plus another form of ID with a current address...
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How Can You Help the Library?
As we all know, money is tight for many, including our local Dawson and Lumpkin County libraries -- but there are many ways you can help.  Make donations, whether of your time as a volunteer or as a sponsor for one of the library system's many community programs...
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Brenau Commemorates 9/11 Anniversary with ‘14 Cows for America’ Book Debut
Carmen Deedy, acclaimed storyteller and children's book author, will appear in Pearce Auditorium on September 8, debuting her latest book, commemorating the 9/11 anniversary. The event is free and open to the public...
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New Word. New Network. New Possibilities. Womenetics
As an online magazine, event resource and more, Womenetics comes to Atlanta as the brainchild of founding publisher of Atlanta Woman magazine and former president/CEO of The Leader Publishing Group– Elisabeth Marchant...
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Dawson County Library Offers Exciting Programs for Children
Express yourself and be creative at the library...
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From Prohibition to Toasting the First African-American President of the United States
Franklin Hooper deftly utilizes his expert knowledge of newsrooms, history and politics in his recently published political satire Deadline for a Dark Horse. He explores the possibility of an attractive renegade Dark Horse congresswoman deadlocking the ’08 political conventions...
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Dawson County Library Offers Engaging Summer Teen Programs
Teens are invited to come and try their hands at comedy improv in a workshop offered by Dad's Garage, touted as Atlanta's best improv theatre.  Several other workshops are available...
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How Much Do You Save at the Library?
"My total savings each month: $3,136.00 -- I love my library!!!"...
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