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December 1-January 31st: Looking for some winter reading inspiration? Want to expand your literary horizons? Participate in our Winter Reading Book Bingo Challenge!! Pick up your BINGO sheet or print it off of our website anytime between December 1st and January 31st to participate. Fun for all ages! Questions? Call the library at 704-664-2927.

Help support the Red Cross, donate and help save a life!! Mobile Unit will be setup in the parking lot of the Mooresville Public Library. Visit www.redcrossblood.org to schedule your time.

Together we can make a difference this holiday season. Throughout the month of December, Mooresville Public Library is collecting new hats, scarves, and gloves to donate to FeedNC. Questions? Call the library at 704-664-2927.

Join the office of Congresswoman Alma S. Adams Ph.D. for our Virtual Carolina Coffee on Wednesday, December 16, 2019 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm! This year’s open house will be virtual and will combine both the District and DC based locations for the office of the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina. You will get to meet the staffs of both offices and learn about the services we provide the constituents of NC12. You will also get to visit a virtual breakout room to hear about the legislative process and how things work in DC, as well as a breakout room with our District Office staff to hear how we can help with issues relating to Federal agencies. Although we will not be discussing specific case related questions, you will be able to ask general operations questions during our Question and Answer session in the virtual chat. This is a great time to meet the staff and learn about our office and our two (2) locations and receive valuable information on federal agencies and how our office can best assist you and your family. Please RSVP today! Holiday attire welcomed! RSVP requested

Do you have a delicious recipe to share? Send your recipe to ssciarretta@mooresvillenc.gov All contributors receive a charming quarantine cuisine cookbook and are entered into a drawing to win a handcrafted cutting board by a local artisan.

Load up your bike and share God’s love! Bring gift-filled shoeboxes for children in need to the Billy Graham Library. Enjoy special speakers, fellowship, complimentary lunch, and giveaways. The amazing journey of shoeboxes begins with YOU and results in blessing children in need around the world. Ride alone, with your club, or meet up with a group coming from your region. Gates open at 9:30 a.m. Complimentary Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. While you’re here, come inside and retrace Billy Graham’s dynamic journey from humble farm boy to international ambassador of God’s love through fascinating exhibits. Visit his childhood home, browse our bookstore and enjoy a snack in the dairy bar. Come just as you are – but with boxes! For more information, please call 704-401-3200 or email LibraryEvents@bgea.org. For information on Operation Christmas Child and how to pack a shoe box, please visit: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/ Register below for our Biker Bypass and skip the line on October 17th.

Bring your friends and loved ones to enjoy an elegant tea party, beautiful music, and a Christ-centered message from special guest speaker Sheila Walsh—Bible teacher, author, and co-host of television’s LIFE TODAY with James and Betty Robison. From Scotland, Sheila Walsh is first a wife and mom and in her spare time she is an author, Bible teacher and television host. She has spoken around the world to over 6 million women and reaches a potential 100 million people daily as co-host of the Life Today television program. Sheila loves to make the Bible practical, sharing how God met her at her lowest point and helped her to rise up again. Her message: God is for you! Sheila’s books have sold over 5 million copies including her latest bestseller It’s Okay Not To Be Okay. In February 2020, she released her newest book Praying Women, How to Pray When You Don’t Know What To Say. Tickets are $35 per person. Seating is limited. Signed copies of Sheila’s newly released book, Praying Women, How to Pray When You Don’t Know What To Say will be available for purchase at Ruth’s Attic bookstore. The Billy Graham Library has added procedures to ensure compliance with North Carolina’s phased reopening, including the wearing of masks, hand sanitizer stations, and social distancing.

Dr. Will Sparks will explore the life and leadership lessons identified by Doris Kearns Goodwin in her New York Times best seller “Leadership in Turbulent Times.”

This session will examine the insights and observations of US Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson as they found meaning and profound growth as a result of the various struggles they experienced while in office.

The session will also provide key lessons and strategies for participants to apply in their personal and professional lives.

Returning to the studio as Watkins Family Hour, Sean and Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek fame) consider brother sister a duo-centric record – yet one that feels bigger than just two people. With Sean primarily on guitar and Sara on fiddle, and with both of them sharing vocals, the siblings enlisted producer Mike Viola (Jenny Lewis, Mandy Moore, J.S. Ondara) and mixer-engineer Clay Blair to harness the energy and honesty of their live sound.

The Queens Learning Society welcomes world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin for a virtual program titled “2020 Election: Where Do We Go From Here.”

Goodwin is the author of seven critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling books, including her most recent, Leadership in Turbulent Times, which incorporates her five decades of scholarship studying Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Her book offers context for our turbulent times and showing how today’s leaders can learn from the past.

River Notes This gently moving work was created and performed by Martha Connerton in the mid 1980's and remounted in 2011 on company dancer, Alyce Cristina Vallejo. Featuring a poetry and cello score by Barry Lopez and David Darling and kinetic metal, wood and lucite sculptures by Louisville artists, Tom Butsch and Mark Englert. Running Time: 20 minutes

Is Starting a Business Right for You? Business Start-Up Series - 4 Sessions Session 2: Business Concept November 3, 2020) The first workshop focuses on your business concept and step-by-step guidance in researching your idea, your market, and your competition. At the end of the Business Concept Workshop, you are able to identify your target markets, describe your products and services, and collect key competitive information to support your feasibility plan. Session 3: Marketing Plan (November 10, 2020) The second workshop provides you with an introduction to marketing communication methods and tools to maximize your customer reach. The discussion in the Marketing Plan Workshop covers pricing strategies, positioning, the difference between features and benefits, and different marketing strategies. At the end of this session, you will know how to outline your marketing strategy, test your marketing message, choose the right sales channel, and exercise your marketing strategy. Session 4: Financial Projections (November 17, 2020) The third workshop uses exercises to help you better understand financial concepts. This session reviews sales and prices, financial risks and rewards, true start-up costs, ongoing operating expenses, setting benchmarks for tracking progress and the organization of all your financial information. Using a hands-on approach, you learn how to use our financial model to forecast sales revenue and build solid pro-forma financial forecasts. Session 5: Funding Sources and Next Steps (November 24, 2020) The final workshop offers information on how to finance your small business. In this session, discussions include sources of funds, accounting the six C’s of credit, banking relations, ratio analysis, and monthly preparation and review of financial statements. A bank loan officer will give an inside view of how a banker assesses the merit of business plans and loan application. At the end of the series, you have all the tools necessary to decide whether or not to launch your small business. Attend all four sessions for $150.00 (A second person from the same company is an additional $50.00) Registration: https://charlotte.score.org/event/virtual-simple-steps-starting-your-business-workshop-series-2-5-nov Zoom virtual workshop, login information provided upon registration

Small Business Guide to Hiring and Payroll In this Workshop the Small Business Owner will learn about: • Hiring Employees vs. Independent Contractors • Understanding Payroll - Self-employment taxes - Payroll taxes - CARES Act tax credits - Avoiding the 5 most common payroll mistakes • Correctly Classifying your Workforce - Exempt vs. non-exempt - Overtime rules - New W4 Fee $40 Promo Code: In light of the economic situation caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, our October Online Workshops are being offered at a discount. When registering Apply promo code 25OCTNMA to receive a 25% discount. Registration: https://charlotte.score.org/event/small-business-guide-hiring-and-payroll-oct-23

Learn how to make Gingerbread Houses at-home with a three-part series featuring All-Star Chefs & Competition Judges (including celebrity chef, Carla Hall). A portion of the proceeds goes to ACFEF’s Chef & Child Initiative so the more you bake, the bigger difference you make. Class takers also receive 15% off future stays at The Omni Grove Park Inn January - March 2021. | $29

Endorphins, physical health, community and fun! Meet new friends - and / or have a classmate, neighbor or cousin sign up and dance with them... virtually from your home. Beginner to more experienced dancers - all are welcomed : ) Learn line dances to a variety of musical genres..Funk, Pop, Latin, Country, Blues... FREE December 2020 series for Middle Schoolers FREE November 2020 After School series for elementary school kids FREE January 2021 series for high schoolers and adults of all ages ... and more virtual and live, social (ly distanced) line dance experiences available (visit the ticket link for a calendar / more info / to sign up). Must register at https://www.lisakonczal.com/dancewithlisa in advance - dancers will receive a Zoom link emailed to them come class time. Limited capacity to maximize your experience and create community. You are welcome to project the lesson for an entire group, being careful to dance at least six feet from one another. Taught by Winston - Salem, NC native, Lisa Konczal - a principal (line) dancer in the Grammy Award-Winning music video for “Old Town Road”, the longest running #1 Billboard song of all time. Sponsored by Culture Blocks - a community partnership funded by Mecklenburg County.

Endorphins, physical health, community and fun! Meet new friends - and / or have a friend or relative sign up and dance with them... virtually from your home. Beginner to more experienced dancers - all are welcomed : ) Learn line dances to a variety of musical genres..Funk, Pop, Latin, Country, Blues... FREE January 2021 series for High Schoolers and Adults of all ages ... and more virtual and live, social (ly distanced) line dance experiences available (visit the ticket link for the calendar / more info / to sign up). Taught by Winston - Salem, NC native, Lisa Konczal - a principal (line) dancer in the Grammy Award-Winning music video for “Old Town Road”, the longest running #1 Billboard song of all time. Sponsored by Culture Blocks - a community partnership funded by Mecklenburg County.

Join Arts at Queens for two opportunities to hear Triangle-based roots/folk/soul band Violet Bell perform on Queens' beautiful campus on Sunday, November 1 at 2 PM and 4 PM. Enjoy these outdoor performances in your own seating area, physically distanced from other audience members.

Franchise Ownership Workshop presented by FranNet and SCORE Charlotte Considering business ownership? Ready to leave employment behind? Want to start a business while employed? This No Cost event is for anyone that wants to: create their own corporate ladder; start a business while employed; enjoy career independence; build equity in their own business; learn about franchises expanding in their markets; hear about business financing options Presentations: by experts in the franchise industry Panel Discussions: ask questions of and get the answers you need from our panel of local franchise owners and franchise industry experts Registration: https://score.tfaforms.net/17?EventID=a100b000006ZEa

Reverse Goal Setting It's time you take control of your business like never before. If you’ve ever found yourself in February and your goals are already a distant memory or you’re disappointed as you look back in December on what you didn’t accomplish (but had planned to), you aren’t alone. Goals shouldn’t be that way. Don't get caught up in typical goal setting practices...it's time to reverse your goals and watch them come alive! Stacey Brown Randall of the Goal Finishers Club will walk you through a process to see your goals in a whole new way. Her clients amaze themselves on what they are able to accomplish following her Reverse Goal Setting process. Here’s what you’ll learn during this session: Set goals that actually matter and provide a direction to where you want to go long-term Connect your goals to your why… giving you a better chance to actually accomplish them Identify major milestones, layout your roadmap and create your action plan (so crushing your goals actually happen!) Registration: https://score.tfaforms.net/17?EventID=a100b000006ZGzW

The Davidson College Union Board is virtually hosting Patrisse Cullors in conversation with Dr. Laurian Bowles, professor of Anthropology at Davidson College on November 10th at 7:30pm. Artist, activist, educator, public speaker, and Los Angeles-native Patrisse Cullors is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of the Los Angeles-based grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now. For the last 20 years, Patrisse has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020. Patrisse co-founded the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after sparking the viral Twitter hashtag. The movement has since expanded into an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world campaigning against anti-black racism. Her work for the organization received recognition and was honored in TIME Magazine’s 2020 100 Women of the Year project. In January 2016, Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which became an instant New York Times Bestseller.​