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<span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wits Workout is an engaging, interactive, and educational brain health program designed especially for seniors. Learn about brain health and participate in activities to strengthen your memory and increase your brain power!</span>

<span style="color: rgb(87, 90, 93); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You are enjoying a late summer camping trip when you discover that you are not alone in the woods. Someone is hunting you and you can't find your car keys! Using nothing but your wits, solve the puzzles and you and your friends will escape the room and live to camp again.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wits Workout is an engaging, interactive, and educational brain health program designed especially for seniors. Learn about brain health and participate in activities to strengthen your memory and increase your brain power!</span>

<div><b><u>Do YOU Want To Be A Lion?</u></b></div><div>Are you community-spirited?&nbsp; Are you interested in working to improve your community and the world?</div><div><br></div><div>Membership in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.northauroralions.org/" title="" target="_self">North Aurora Lions Club&nbsp;</a>is perfect for you.&nbsp; You can develop friendships that last a lifetime, gain valuable leadership skills and be an advocate for causes that impact lives here at home and across the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Remember...</div><div>Volunteering requires only passion and positivity!

<span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wits Workout is an engaging, interactive, and educational brain health program designed especially for seniors. Learn about brain health and participate in activities to strengthen your memory and increase your brain power!</span>

<div>We are Northern Illinois' Advanced Toastmasters Speaking Club!&nbsp;Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our organization has more than 300,000 members.

<div>We are Northern Illinois' Advanced Toastmasters Speaking Club!&nbsp;Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our organization has more than 300,000 members.

<div>We are Northern Illinois' Advanced Toastmasters Speaking Club!&nbsp;Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our organization has more than 300,000 members.

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Thinking about tracing your roots but don't know where to start? Or maybe you've hit a dead end and could use some advice. Librarian Nancy shows you how to access free genealogical resources through the library (including Ancestry), offers search tips, and provides advice. <i>No registration necessary. </i><br><br><br>

<div>This month we will be discussing <i>The Underworld: Journey to the Depths of the Ocean</i>&nbsp;by Susan Casey.<br></div><div><br></div>Drawing on interviews with marine geologists, marine biologists and oceanographers, a premiere chronicler of the aquatic world and New York Times best-selling author provides a fascinating history of deep-sea exploration and shows how urgent it is that we understand the ocean in a time of increasing threats from climate change.

<div>Ages 8-12 with caregiver. Learn to create your own monoprints! A monotype produces a completely unique print with a process that is unpredictable, expressive, and unique. You will leave with several completed and unique monoprints for hanging or gift giving. <i>Registration required.</i><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>Please register each person attending-kids and adults.</i><br></div>

<div>This month we will be discussing <i>Heart Berries</i>&nbsp;by Terese Marie Mailhot.</div><div><br></div><div>Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation.</div>

<div>This month we will be discussing <i>Drive Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom</i>&nbsp;by Adam Chandler.<br></div><div><br></div>In<i> Drive-Thru Dreams</i>, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry's largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger than life image of America

The North Aurora Garden Club meets the first Monday of the month, except when holiday closings or events create a conflict and the date must be changed.&nbsp;<div><br></div>We are always looking for new members or feel free to attend as a guest! Contact Gail W. with any questions about the Garden Club at (630) 618-6467.

In this heartwarming cabaret, Matt and Cynthia Gruel chronicle the many stages of relationships while performing varied and powerful songs from the Broadway stage. Incorporating touching and humorous anecdotes from their own marriage, the couple explores the highs and lows of dating, separation, marriage, children, and growing older together. Expect to hear favorites such as "You're the One That I Want," "Big Spender," "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," "Wonderful Guy," "People Will Say We're in Love," and "Kids." <i>Space is limited; please register in advance.</i>

This month we will be reading <i>Lonely Hearts Book Club</i>&nbsp;by Lucy Gilmore.<div><br></div>Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely, but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane tracks the old man down only to discover him all but bedridden...and desperately struggling to hide how happy he is to see her.

<div><i>Ages 3-6 with caregivers.</i> Ring in the new year - without staying up until midnight! Enjoy stories and crafts, countdown to noon, and explore family activity stations.<br></div>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-transform: none; line-height: 18px; font-family: Calibri, &quot;Calibri_EmbeddedFont&quot;, &quot;Calibri_MSFontService&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW157850809 BCX2"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157850809 BCX2"> Too young to be a Teen Volunteer but still want to help around the library? Become a Junior Library Helper to help with simple tasks while getting a sneak peek of what teen volunteering is like. Attend training, then help at the library on your own schedule (15-30 minutes, 1-2 times/month).