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RIPPEY LIBRARY

Website: www.rippey.lib.ia.us  /  E-mail: rippeyli@windstream.net  / Online Catalog: https://www.rippey.lib.ia.us/ Cara McCoy, librarian

Hours: Sunday and Monday closed; Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: 2-5 pm; Wednesday: 2-6   pm; Saturday: 9 -11 a.m.

Upcoming Events –

Children’s Stoytime: Every Tuesday and Storytime craft available all week! Jan. 9 – Numbers; Jan. 16 — Martin Luther King Jr;

Tween / Teen Hangout Wednesdays at 4:15 pm; Jan. 3 — Write your name in Braille for National Braille Day; Jan. 10 — Adult coloring

Adults – Thursdays ; Jan. 4 — Adult coloring; Jan. 11 — Tea and Tarts

Reading is Snow-Much Fun! Winter Reading Bingo Jan. 2 – March 15. Complete a Bingo and return to the Rippey Public Library to win a prize. With every Bingo you will be entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. 

Rippey United Methodist Church, Pastor Jon Williams

Sundays: Adult Sunday School 10 am, Worship services 1 a.m. 

January 7: Consecration  Sunday

Tuesdays 10 am Fellowship. Everyone welcome. Soup lunch served first Tuesday of the month.

Holiday travels – Dale and Nancy Hanaman visited with son Matthew and Heather Hanaman in Eau Claire, WI, over Christmas. They traveled to Superior, WI, to celebrate their daughter’s surprise 50th birthday with family and friends.

Family Christmas – Diane and Terry Ostendorf hosted Christmas Day dinner in their Madrid home. Attending were Virgene Morse, Kevin and Delores Blanshan, Kelsey Blanshan, Madelyn Ostendorf, Sam, Michaela and Fisher Van De Berg and Ben Ostendorf. Regrets were sent by Eric Blanshan and family. 

The day was spent enjoying a soup lunch, Christmas treats, lots of laughs, playing with Fisher and a gift exchange.

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