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July 2025 |
Welcome to our monthly newsletter featuring all that's happening at your library.
Photo courtesy of the Komoka Library. |
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Summer Program Highlights |
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Tech Hacking at the Coldstream Library. |
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Puzzle Tournament at the Dorchester Library. |
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Break-In Bags at the Wardsville Library. |
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Spy School at the Ailsa Craig Library. |
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So many great programs have been happening at libraries across Middlesex County, but there's also many more still to come!
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Chess Tournament
Tues, Aug 19 at 2:00pm Ailsa Craig Library
Register now! |
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Music in the Garden
Select Thursdays at 6:30pm Coldstream Library
Drop-in. Learn more! |
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Epic Nerf Battle
Mon, Aug 11 at 2:00pm Delaware Library
Register now! |
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Garden Adventures Club
Wednesdays at 3:30pm Glencoe Library
Drop-in. Learn more! |
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Tech Hacking
Thurs, Jul 31 at 3:00pm Ilderton Library
Register now! |
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Bingo Night
Thurs, Jul 31 at 6:00pm Melbourne Library
Drop-in. Learn more! |
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Seed Bead Jewelry
Thurs, Jul 24 from 3-5pm Mt Brydges Library
Drop-in. Learn more! |
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Boba-Licious Fun!
Thurs, Jul 31 at 3:30pm Newbury Library
Register now! |
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Frisbee Golf Tournament
Wed, Jul 23 at 12:00pm Parkhill Library
Register now! |
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Oreo Games
Thurs, Jul 24 at 2:00pm Strathroy Library
Register now! |
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Coffee, Conversation & Cards
Tues, Jul 22 at 12:30pm Thorndale Library
Register now! |
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Boba-Licious Fun!
Wed, Jul 30 at 3:30pm Wardsville Library
Register now! |
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Community Pool Passes
Now available to borrow at the Lucan, Strathroy and Mt. Brydges Libraries: pool passes! Learn more about this program or place a hold now!
Thank you to our partners the Township of Lucan Biddulph and the Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc for making this program possible. |
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Summer at the Library
There's still time to register! Our reading programs for all ages run until Saturday, August 16. Read at least 20 minutes a day, to earn chances to win great prizes! Learn more about Summer at the Library.
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Auto Repair Source
A user-friendly search experience and access to a wealth of information to help users diagnose, repair and maintain today's complex vehicles. Try it now!
New to Auto Repair Source? Watch this intro video! |
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Upcoming Closure
All Middlesex County Library branches will be closed on Monday, August 4 for the Civic Holiday. |
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Still Accepting Donations
Help us help kids! Middlesex County Library is looking for help to stock non-perishable, peanut-free snacks for children visiting the library this summer. Donations can be dropped off at any library branch. |
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Best First Day School Supplies Drive
Middlesex County Library branches are drop-off locations for the Best First Day school supplies drive.For a list of accepted supplies, please visit the United Way of Elgin Middlesex website. Donations accepted at library branches until August 1.
If you know a child in need of supplies, please contact their school's princial. |
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Middlesex EarlyON programs are free for caregivers and children from birth to six-years-old. Our centres are open to all families. These programs are welcoming spaces that offer:
Play-based learning opportunities that allow children to develop their social and emotional skills, reach developmental milestones and begin their learning journey. Opportunities for sensory play, creative art, music and movement, language and literacy, science and nature, dramatic play, active play and problem solving. Fun and interactive activities including storytelling, songs and games. Opportunities to connect and network with other caregivers and families.
Learn more about Middlesex EarlyON |
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Splash Pad Week!
During Splash Pad week, EarlyON moves select Play & Learn and Baby Time programs to splash pads in communities across the County of Middlesex. All events are drop-in, no registration required. Weather permitting. Should the weather not be conducive to run the program, we will cancel and resume the program at the regular indoor location (when applicable). More details available on our event calendar.
Glencoe: Monday, July 21 - Play & Learn 9-11am and Baby Time 1-3pm Lucan: Monday, July 21 - Play & Learn 9-11am and Baby Time 1-3pm
Ilderton: Tuesday, July 22 - Play & Learn 9-11am and Baby Time 1-3pm Ailsa Craig: Tuesday Jully 22 - Play & Learn 9-11am Dorchester: Wednesday, July 23 - Play & Learn 9-11am and Baby Time 1-3pm
Parkhill: Wednesday, July 22 - Play & Learn 9-11am Mt. Brydges: Wednesday, July 22 - Play & Learn 9-11am and Baby Time 1-3pm Strathroy: Thursday, July 24 - Play & Learn 9-11am and Baby Time 1-3pm
Komoka: Friday, July 25 - Play & Lean 9-11am Thorndale: Friday July 25 - Play & Learn 9-11am
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Click on the book cover to place a hold. |
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| Tiffany Pratt |
Stylist, designer, HGTV star and fairy godmother of glitter, Tiffany Pratt looks at the world as a blank canvas. With every choice she is presented or every decision she makes, she does it with one mantra in mind: that this--whatever "this" is--can be beautiful.
Suggested by Meghan, Ailsa Craig Branch Assistant |
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| Ashley Audrain |
Well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down...Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her...Before long, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. And then, his mother can only sit by her son's hospital bed, where she refuses to speak to anyone...What happens next, over the course of a tense three days, as each of these women grapple with what led to that terrible night.
Suggested by Caralee from Wardsville and Shelah from Komoka |
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| Karen Robards |
During WWII, Sibi, living in Germany with her father, a scientist working on jet propulsion engines for the Nazi party, joins the underground resistance movement with him, and they become deeply embedded in a web of secrets, lies, and deceit that threatens to destroy their already fragile family.
Suggested by Kelly, Thorndale Branch Assistant |
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| Thao Thai | Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light.
Suggested by Liz, Public Services Coordinator |
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| Natasha Brown |
After a violent attack at an illegal rave on a Yorkshire farm, a determined journalist unravels a web of intrigue involving a corrupt landlord, a controversial columnist, and a group of anarchists, exposing unsettling truths about power, language and the elusive nature of storytelling.
Suggested by Stan, Library Technician Cataloguing & ILL |
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| Ministry of Transportation |
This handbook gives new drivers the basic information they need about learning to drive in Ontario: the rules of the road, safe driving practices and how to get a licence to drive a car, van or small truck. Also great if you need a refresher!
Suggested by Ethan, Thorndale Student Assistant |
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