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Volume 39, No. 18
Libraries toast New Year celebrating 2022 favorites CHRISTINA AMANO DOLAN
for The Local
Amid a new year already chock full with exciting programs at local Pamunkey Regional Library branches, Hanover branches look back on the past year and offer their favorite programs, give thanks to the community for their ongoing support, and look ahead to the many more events in store for 2023.
Atlee Branch
Kicking off the New Year with a community celebration, the Atlee Branch Library hosted over 120 party-goers of all ages at its Noon New Year’s Eve party on Friday, Dec. 30. The library featured an array of activities for children to enjoy throughout the celebration. Visitors made and decorated paper clocks for counting down to the New Year; personal noise makers made from cardboard toilet paper rolls, dried noodles, stickers and
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Attendees of the Atlee Branch Library’s Noon New Year’s Eve party have fun collecting cotton snowballs after the party’s “Snowball Drop” at the strike of 12. duct tape; colored pictures of the New Year baby; enjoyed candy and popcorn; and danced the hokey pokey with library staff. “We had so much fun!” said
Anne-Marie Parrish, Atlee Branch manager. She added the highlight of the party was the countdown. Library staff moved all attendees to the lobby to count down from 10 and dropped over 300 cotton snowballs from the second floor to commemorate the New Year. “Fun was had by all, and the kids helped us pick all the snowballs up too and it was fun to see how far they rolled down the stacks of books,” Parrish said. “It was a great way to end my very first year here at the Atlee Library!” Heading into a new year of programming, Jackie Palmer, the branch’s youth service librarian, said some of her favorite events of 2022 included the reintroduction of indoor Storytime, their summer T-shirt fish printing program, and setting up a Nintendo Switch for Atlee teens to play.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
HCPS RETURNS FROM WINTER BREAK Hanover County Public Schools students and staff returned to the classroom on Monday, Jan. 2 after a two-week Winter Break. Students at Rural Point Elementary School rang in the New Year with fun glasses while students across the county, including those at Cold Harbor Elementary School, were greeted with warm smiles from staff upon their return for another year full of joy and learning. INFORMATION AND PHOTOS COURTESY OF HANOVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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