08/25/22: Community Calendar

HEDC to meet next Thursday

Hartley Economic Development Corporation will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, Sept. 1, at 5:30 p.m. at Crazy Bob’s.

Red’s Aug. 31 menu

Red’s Catering in downtown Hartley will be serving two specials on Wednesday, Aug. 31.

See the ad on Page 3 for more details.

“The Book of Lost Names” topic of HPL discussion

Between the Covers Book Club will be discussing “The Book of Lost Names” by Kristin Harmel in the front room of the library at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30. Newcomers are always welcome to join the book club and copies are available at the library.

“The Book of Lost Names” tells the story of Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida who is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in 65 years, a book she recognizes as “The Book of Lost Names.”

The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II, an experience Eva remembers well, and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an 18th Century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?

As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are.

An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of “The Lost Girls of Paris” and “The Alice Network,” “The Book of Lost Names” is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.

CC/E menus

Monday, Aug. 29: Breakfast – Cold cereal, toast, fruit, juice, yogurt; Lunch – Pizza, salad, baby carrots, pears.

Tuesday, Aug. 30: Breakfast – Scrambled egg, cold cereal, toast, fruit, juice, yogurt, milk sticks; Lunch – Popcorn chicken, cauliflower, peaches, chocolate chip cookie.

Wednesday, Aug. 31: Breakfast – Waffles, cold cereal, toast, fruit, juice, yogurt; Lunch – Tacos, refried beans, sidekick, churro.

Menus subject to change at any time. Milk is served with each meal.

Regular hours at Royal library

Hours at the Royal Public Library are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 3-5 p.m.; and Tuesday and Saturday, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Hope Lutheran food pantry hours

Current hours for the food pantry at Hope Lutheran Church in Everly are Wednesdays, 1-5 p.m. Everyone is allowed to come in and pick out their food, but masks are required.

Al Anon meetings

Al Anon meetings are held at the following locations each week:

Wednesday, 8 p.m., 511 Southmoor, Spencer; Thursday, 8 p.m., Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Royal; Sunday, 7 p.m., Sanford Medical Center, 118 N 7th Ave., Sheldon.

All are welcome to attend.