Cape library offering variety of programs in January

A few upcoming activities of the Cape Girardeau Public Library include the facility's Winter Reading Program, Library Safari and Book Discussion Group.

Sign-up for the Winter Reading Program starts today. Readers and listeners alike may stop by the library at 711 N. Clark any day from now until the program ends March 15.

Upon registering, participants will receive a start-up kit that includes a gameboard, a bookmark, an activity book and a storage bag. Participants earn prizes as the competition progresses.

For every stack of books completed on the gameboard, participants will select a prize from the treasure chest. Those who read for 600 minutes by the end of the program will get to pick out a book to keep and enter their name in the grand prize drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble.

Eagles Aerie 3775 donated funds for this program which were used to buy supplies and prizes.

Another program offered by the Cape Girardeau Public Library, Library Safari, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. This program is designed to help children ages 3 to 7 discover a new exotic animal through stories and activities.

This month, library personnel encourage those interested to join the "pachyderms on parade." Participants will listen to stories about elephants and make a speckled elephant friend to take home.

On Saturday, the library will sponsor a program featuring George Drouillard, a guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Meeting at 2 p.m. in the Hirsch Community Room, participants will have an opportunity to experience the intriguing adventure of being on the trail with those first explorers through a Drouillard impersonator.

This program is funded by the Missouri Humanities Council and co-hosted by the library and the Center for Regional History.

Another library program offered this month is the facility's Book Discussion Group which will meet to discuss "The Book Club," written by Mary Alice Monroe, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29. Copies of the book are available at the library.

For more information about any of these or other programs, call the library at 334-5279.