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Entries from November 2009

this weekend: Christmas kickoff downtown

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

The Downtown Monroe Tree Lighting Ceremony and Holiday Kickoff Weekend events are held Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Read more and see schedule HERE

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Tags: christmas · local · things-to-do

my fave books as a kid

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

After writing about the kid book series featuring author Gordon Korman(see THIS blog post and THIS press release from Monroe Public), I remembered my favorite book series from the school library… the ones where you could make decisions and choose your own ending.
Google says these were called Choose Your Own Adventure.  If I’m remembering correctly, every couple pages [...]

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Monroe Public Author Visits – Gordon Korman

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Author Gordon Korman is visiting Monroe Public Schools this week.  I heard part of the assembly, and realized I hadn’t made the connection that Korman is one of the writers of an interesting concept for a book series I had seen talked about a little bit about on TV.
 
From wikipedia…
The 39 Clues is a series [...]

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Tags: school