Dunklin County Library

May 2017 “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” —Saul Bellow

Training, Jobs, & More

Based on what a person Fallek, legal needs, account- program that helps young people hears from the media and ing, and pitfalls are addressed learn a career, earn a high school the general public, everyone to prepare the entrepreneur. diploma or GED, and find and needs a college degree. This book is available at the keep a good job. For eligible However, there are numer- Dunklin County Library. young people at least 16 years of ous opportunities other than The Missouri age that qualify as low income, a traditional 4-year college Department of Elementary and Job Corps provides the all-around program for high school Secondary Education selected skills needed to succeed in a graduates. Ultimately, goals a new high school equivalency career and in life. must be considered. For test that replaced the GED Vocational training is Branches some professions, college is starting January 2014. one important way of contributing Campbell, 404 W. Grand absolutely the right choice. Missouri's current high school toward the cultivation of the Options are available, varied, equivalency test was many different talents. For those Cardwell, 113 N. Main and full of potential! developed by the Educational enrolled at the Kennett Career There are over 22 Testing Service (ETS) and is and Technology, whether the Clarkton, 113 S. Main million individuals who are called the HiSET®. The students be secondary, adult, or Holcomb, 210 W. Main self-employed in the USA. HiSET® exam consists of five post-secondary, the opportunity is With drive, initiative, and a subtests (content areas): available to prepare for the world Hornersville, 502 School quality product, starting a Math, Science, Social Studies, of work. Vocational education at Kennett, 209 N. Main business may equal Reading, and Writing. Each the KCTC is perhaps best sum- success. With a computer branch of the Dunklin County marized in the motto, "Prepare Malden, 1203 Stokelan and an internet connection, Library has a HiSET Exam Today for Tomorrow's Pay." a business opportunity may Power Practice book in the Congratulations to all Senath, 108 N. Main be launched from the reference section. Also, this the graduates in Dunklin County. comfort of your home and practice book is available for Learning never ends! with little startup costs. In purchase for $16. the book, How to Set up your Job Corps is a free own Small Business by Max education and training Kindergarten Honored with MayMay Story Story Time Time Books May Activities

Each year, since 1999, the Dunklin County Library places a Tuesday, May 16: children’s book in honor of each graduating kindergarten Genealogy Meeting 10 am student in the county. JoNell Minton, DCL Director, stated “At the end of each year, the library adds to its collection of Tuesday, May 30: children’s book through this program.” The books are placed Story Time 6 pm in the library location nearest the school that the child attended. Labels are inserted on the inside front cover with Tuesday, May 30: Book Discussion 7 pm the names of the kindergarten students, the school, and the Tuesday, May 30, 2017 year of kindergarten graduation. A book party is held at the 6 pm local branches, and each school allows the children to visit and see the new books. All the books designated for the Stories, Sing-a-longs, honorees this year are on the Accelerated Reader list. “This Crafts, Games, & Laughs!! program is immensely important to us to introduce the library and reading to these young patrons, “ Ms. Minton added. May Book Discussion: The Bielski Brothers

For Book Discussion on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, at 7 pm, the participants have selected The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy. This true story of three brothers who witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murder in 1941 in Eastern Europe. This practice book for the These brothers fought back by establishing a village in the dense HiSET examination is available in each branch of forest and waging s guerilla war of wits against the Nazis. Book the Dunklin County Library in discussion is open to all interested readers, and the group meets the Reference Section. the last Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. Not available for checkout!

Check It Out by Gib Ennis

Read "A Confederacy of Dunces" and find out if you the opening or closing of his suffering mother was hesitant pyloric valve. He spends his to enter, Ignatius adventures belong to a cult. time in bed carefully into the entrepreneurial world, Some years back a young recording his fulminations his first endeavor as a street man drove his automobile to a against society in dozens of Big hot dog vender. The trouble is remote area . He parked and Chief writing tablets. Ignatius Ignatius eats up all the then ran a hose from the profit. Then he goes to work as exhaust through a small opening a file clerk at the Levy Pants Co. in the window of his car. He then where Ignatius creates all sorts turned on the engine. of havoc. All this gives Ignatius a chance to meet a host of After the suicide a distraught people each of whom is either mother found a smeared carbon confused, inept, or drowning in copy of a manuscript. She- doubt yet always hilariously thought it was good and funny. pressured a reluctant Walker Percy to read it. Percy was then Readers will have to agree a teacher of English at Loyola that "A Confederacy of The Dunklin County Library will University. Percy started the Dunces" is an independent be closed in observance of book as a courtesy, but after venture, quite different from Memorial Day on Monday, May three readings he became other Pulitzer Prize winners in incredulous. The book simply fiction. Critical approval or not, 29, 2017. believes that everyone should couldn't be this good. He there are some who read the be " lashed" except himself. arranged to have the book book and have nothing published. In 1981, John Letters between Ignatius favorable to say about it. Then Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy and his girlfriend, Myrna there are the "cultists" who may Visit us at: of Dunces" won a posthumous Minkoff, are priceless. Myrna have read the book three or dunklin-co.lib.mo.us Pulitzer Prize for fiction. lives in the Bronx where she four times, and think it is a leads a hippy life of sexual comedic masterpiece. Scenes in the book take place liberation, a practice she gives in the rambunctious city of New There have been sever- enthusiastic energy. She Orleans. The protagonist (or al successful stage adaptions believes sex will free Ignatius antagonist if you will) is Ignatius to "A Confederacy of Dunces," from his neurotic behavior. This Reilly, a college educated but none finding national is somewhat hampered by the intellectual slob who thinks the fame. A movie was in the fact that Ignatius believes in modern world lacks proper talking for a while using the sexual abstention. Above all geometry and theology. considerable talents of the people, Ignatius believes that Elephantine in size, Ignatius is actor, John Candy, to play Myrna should be "lashed." subject to eating binges. Con- Ignatius Reilly. But Candy's stantly swollen with flatulence, Finally leaving his bedroom, untimely death ended that his moods dependent on either a room so foul even his long prospect.