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So long 2025: A Best of List (from public opinion and me)

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2025 is almost over. Literally, today is the last day. I’m always surprised by the end of a year, as it seems like we just rang it in. Wasn’t that just a few months ago? No? It was a whole year ago? Huh.

But one of my favorite activities to indulge in as a year wraps up is to pick out the highlights in entertainment. What did I watch or read that ignited my imagination and all of my fangirl instincts? My favorite things may not be yours but that’s part of the fun. Taste is subjective, and a discussion about this kind of thing helps you get to know someone and may give you some recommendations of things you may not have thought to try.

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Children’s Book Drive – Running all October Long! 

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“Literacy should not be a privilege; it should be a right”.

– Little Library

Today, many families and children do not have access to books or resources that many of us are fortunate to have access to, especially at the library. Therefore, in collaboration with Little Library, Vaughan Public Libraries will be running a Children’s Book Drive from October 1st – 31st. At all of our libraries, public and staff are encouraged to drop off new and gently used English children’s books – picture books, chapter books, graphic novels, and board books.   

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Let’s all Spring Forward

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Ah spring.

Or at least I think it’s spring?

It’s been a long, cold, white winter this year, hasn’t it?  I’m not complaining too much because we barely had a winter the year before and it was nice to actually get a full season of ice and snow.  But… let’s be real.  It’s been a lot the past few weeks.  Snow storms.  Ice.  Sub sub sub subzero temperatures.  Closures.  It was all a little much.

But… we’re starting to see the slightest signs that things are taking a turn for the better.  The clocks have sprung forward.  The sun has come out (a little).  We’ve had a few days where the temperature has hit the teens.  The spring equinox came and went yet again (March 20th at 5:01am).  St. Patrick’s Day was this month.  Subtle signs.

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