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Our Garden Series gets gardeners ready for spring

Fruit TreesThere may still be snow on the ground, but it’s already time to start thinking about spring and the things in your yard that may need a little love to look their best this year.

We've joined forces once again with Castle Rock Gift & Garden to bring you Our Garden Series, a collection of informational gardening classes customized to Douglas County’s water, weather and soil.

March programs will focus on ornamental grasses and trees. Join us and let's get growing!

 

Denver Deputy Mayor Bill Vidal to talk about his memoir

Book JacketJoin current Denver Deputy Mayor Guillermo Vincente "Bill" Vidal as he speaks of overcoming his humble beginnings in a Colorado orphanage to become a proud and successful Cuban-American businessman. He'll discuss his first novel-memoir, Boxing for Cuba, "in which young boys become men in the shadow of revolution and turmoil."

Earn your GED - Testing Dates

Literacy LogoFree GED Test Prep

6-8:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday Nights Parker Library (excluding holidays)

  • Instruction, assessments, & practice tests
  • In partnership with Colorado Educational Outreach
  • Ages 17+, no registration required.

March 11, 2010 - it was 20 years ago today

"It was 20 years ago today
Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play."

I have now held my position as director of Douglas County's libraries for 20 years. It was a different world back then.

The population of Douglas County in 1990 was about 65,000. We checked out 368,492 items a year. Today, we have close to 300,000 people, and check out nearly 8 million items annually.

At the time that I was hired, we were a county department. We were also ranked as one of the worst libraries in the state by almost any measure. There was no library in Highlands Ranch. There were no children's departments, and very few story times. We were open five days a week. It looked like the next year, we were going to go down to four.

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