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October highlighted by music, pumpkin carving at Weyburn library

The month of October will be busy at the Weyburn Public Library, with such featured activities as a live performance by the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and pumpkin carving.

WEYBURN - The month of October will be busy at the Weyburn Public Library, with such featured activities as a live performance by the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and family pumpkin carving in time for Halloween night.

Core players from the RSO will come to put on a performance at the Weyburn library on Thursday, Oct. 10, starting at 6:30 p.m.

Family pumpkin carving will be held for two sessions on Thursday, Oct. 24, at either6 or 7 p.m. There will be one pumpkin per family available, along with carving tools and patterns.Saskatchewan Library Week will be held from Oct. 13-19, and the Weyburn library will feature a scavenger hunt, where participants can be entered for a prize.

For children, there are a number of activities for juniors (ages six to eight) and tween (ages nine to 12).

On Oct. 9, there will be pool noodle quidditch and dodgeball at 4 p.m. for the junior age group. A mason jar scarecrow craft will held on Oct. 16 for juniors, and on Tuesday, Oct. 15 for tweens.Then for a chef class, the junior group can make monster mac-and-cheese with edible eyeballs on Tuesday, Oct. 29, or the tweens on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m.both days.

Preschoolers can take part in kitchen play and silly monster apple bites on Monday,Oct. 21 at 2 p.m., and then on Oct. 28, have eyeball soup, witches brew and a bonedig.

Morgan Kelly will have family literacy sessions on Friday, Oct. 11 and Oct. 25 at 10 a.m.

Activities for teens include making fake blood on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 4 p.m.; doing Halloween rock painting with Krystal from Collabartive Studio, also on Oct. 15, at 6p.m., and making googly eye skulls on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m.Teens can come hear a podcast about ghosts and mysteries on Wednesday, Oct. 16,and make and eat pizza.

A “Hallo-Scream” teen after-hours party for Halloween will be held on Friday, Oct.25 at 7 p.m., with an evening of snacks, games and music.For adults, they can come learn how to make perogies on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 2:30p.m., or do some soap-carving with the Weyburn wood-carvers today, Oct. 9, at 1 p.m.

The adult book club will meet on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. to talk about the book, “Still Life” by Louise Penny.

Come hear some spooky Weyburn ghost stories on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 6:30 p.m.

A Repair Café with the Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council will be held at thelibrary on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The library’s annual fall book sale and art auction will be held on Nov. 14-16, and the library will start to take book donations, or art or holiday decorations, on Oct. 28 until Nov. 12.

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