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Learn how to use the Northfield Public Library catalog  including requesting and renewing books, creating book lists and paying  fines at the Northfield Senior Center on  Wed. Sept. 23  11:00 AM-12:00 PM – Room 102-Computer Lab.   The class is free but registration is required.   Call the Senior Center to register at 664-3700. Deadline is Sept. 17.  Questions?  Call the Northfield Library at 507-645-6606.

  The Anderson Center, along with the Red Wing Public Library and Mackin Educational Resources, will once again host the Annual Celebration of Minnesota Children’s Authors and Illustrators on September 19 from 12:00 – 5:00 pm. Marking its 16 th  year, the event features a stellar line-up of Minnesota’s finest, award-winning authors and illustrators, including recently retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page. In his book, "Alan and His Perfectly Pointy, Impossibly Perpendicular Pinky," Page visits a grammar school class. A boy asks him: "What happened to your finger?" Page's left pinky is disfigured, jutting out at a 90-degree angle. He dislocated it during a game when he was a Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle. "The story is really a metaphor that we really do learn from each other and that even those children who sometimes seem to be doing things out of place -- it's not always a bad thing" says Page. In this hear...

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If you're a gardener and would like to learn how to save your own seeds - either for yourself, or to exchange with others next year, this program's for you! U of M Horticulture Professor Tom Michaels will lead the class. Sponsored by the Friends & Foundation of the Library and Just Food Co-op. Free and open to all. Treats provided!  The Northfield Public Library is planning to start a Seed Lending Library when we re-open next year. Start saving seeds now for 2016. The class will be in the Just Food's Co-op's community room 516 Water St S, Northfield August 25th at 6 pm.