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<title><![CDATA[Growing older solves some ADHD woes]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/dec/17/growing-older-solves-some-adhd-woes/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a yearly tradition at the library once school starts that we have parents come in looking for books on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. They are usually worried and a bit scared. No one wants to think there is anything wrong with their child and the idea of them being put on medication is even more of a shock.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's possible to learn a new language at the library]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/nov/26/its-possible-learn-new-language-library/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The teachers we have in school can often have great influence in our lives and the decisions we make.
I was required to take a foreign language as part of my major when I started college. The teacher, who was my advisor, told me to take French saying, "You don't want to take Spanish. Spain has been in a recession ever since the Armada went down" (April 8, 1588). ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Just who was Peter Stewart Ney?]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/nov/19/just-who-was-peter-stewart-ney/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[If you get off Interstate 77 South at exit 49A and take U.S. 70 a little more than eight miles, you will cross over into the area known as Cleveland in Rowan County. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[President Polk and Iredell County]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/oct/29/president-polk-and-iredell-county/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite places to visit in Chapel Hill is the Morehead Planetarium on the University of North Carolina campus. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Service families honor veterans on Web site]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/oct/01/service-families-honor-veterans-web-site/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[My nephew Jonathan arrived in Iraq last week with Fox Company, 4th LAR BN. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iredell set for The Big Read]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/24/iredell-set-big-read/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[One of the few things I miss about being in school is the discussions that were held in class.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[State serves as home to many favorite reads]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/17/state-serves-home-many-favorite-reads/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[People often ask the library staff for recommendations on good books to read. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Local schools raise the bar for graduation]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/10/local-schools-raise-bar-graduation/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Sept. 7-13 has been proclaimed as Graduation Awareness Week in North Carolina by Gov. Mike Easley. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:04:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pet Chihuahua feels injured guardian's pain]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/10/pet-chihuahua-feels-injured-guardians-pain/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[My parents have a pet Chihuahua named Riley that spends his life watching their every move. He is smart, quick and alert to any sound or movement around him or the house. Recently my Dad fell and suffered a broken hip while taking Riley out for his morning walk. My father was unable to get up and had to lay there on the ground until my mother came out to see where they were.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Public libraries serve communities with more than just reference books]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/03/public-libraries-serve-communities-more-just-refer/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Should novels and fiction be offered in a public library for children and adults to read? 

Believe it or not, there was a public debate over the inclusion of works of fiction like novels in public libraries a little more than a century ago.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Web site caters to our grave curiosities]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/aug/20/web-site-caters-our-grave-curiosities/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Each year during the early morning hours of Jan. 19, an unknown person often referred to as the "Poe Toaster" has paid homage to Edgar Allan Poe's memory at Poe's grave at the Westminster Church in Baltimore. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Use care when choosing archival materials]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/aug/13/use-care-when-choosing-archival-materials/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I have received some inquires recently about photos and preservation of rare materials. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:40:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Library seeks volunteers for digital images archiving]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/jul/30/library-seeks-volunteers-digital-images-archiving/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Computer scientist John McCarthy once said, "As the Chinese say, 1,001 words is worth more than a picture." McCarthy is the computer pioneer credited with coining the phrase "artificial intelligence" in a 1955 proposal for the Dartmouth Conference. He was just being cute when he made a play on the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words."
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:57:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Young adults frequent local libraries]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/jul/23/young-adults-frequent-local-libraries/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The young and the old is what a lot of people think of when you mention library users. Images of white-haired men and women and small pre-school children is what pops into a lot of peoples minds. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:55:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sprinkle brings new twist to the mystery story]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/jul/16/sprinkle-brings-new-twist-mystery-story/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA["Is there any point to which you wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.
"The dog did nothing in the nighttime."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:55:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farewell, Iredell Citizen]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/jul/09/farewell-iredell-citizen/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA["Congratulations Iredell — You have just given birth to a bouncing 24-page weekly newspaper!" read the opening paragraph of Volume 1, No. 1 of the Iredell Citizen newspaper Wednesday, April 15, 1998.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:53:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Put pen to paper for history's sake]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/mar/06/put-pen-paper-historys-sake/news-local-education/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[ "I wanted so, to tell that old man, oh, so many things." Johnny Cash sang sadly about all the things a man wanted to say to a dying father in his previously unreleased song "I wanted so" on the CD "Johnny Cash, Personal Files." Feeling regret over the things you wish you had said to someone is felt the deepest when you realize it is too late to say them.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:44:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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