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Last Day of Summer Reading

The Summer Reading Program: Adventure Begins at Your Library!

This is the final week of the Summer Reading Program! The last day to record your reading hours and enter the prize raffle is Saturday, July 27.

The Summer Reading Program is for all ages, birth through adults, and 100% free to participate. For every 10 hours you read, read to someone else, or listen to someone read, you’ll receive a chance in the raffle.

Signing up is easy! Download a reading log and keep track of your reading hours at home. There are also reading logs available in Youth Services that you may take home. Click here to enter your hours and select the raffle prize you would like to have a chance to win.

Bless the Mic: Open Mic Event

Saturday, July 27 @ 3:00 PM

Carnessa Carnes will host an Open Mic event at the library! All ages are welcome – either as participants or in the audience at the BlessTheMic Open Mic show. Comprised of poetry, rap, and singing, the event is free-flowing, family-friendly and performative. All types of talent are welcome. Join us for refreshments and fun!

Carnes created the BlessTheMic Open Mic show in Michigan City and South Bend in 2016. A clean show, it’s specially designed to give artists a platform to showcase their talents and enjoy a fun experience. Carnes’ goal is to empower others to reach their own potential and destiny through the use of her own God-given talents.

Movies in Washington Park: Wish, Friday, July 26 at dusk

Movies in Washington Park: Wish

North Pointe Pavilion, Washington Park
Friday, July 26 at Dusk (around 8:30 PM)

Michigan City Parks and Recreation Department and the library join together to show Movies in Washington Park every summer. July’s movie is Wish. A young girl named Asha wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her. Rated PG. Runtime 1 hour 42 minutes. The movie is at dusk (approximately 8:30 PM) at the North Pointe Pavilion in Washington Park. The movie was originally scheduled to be shown on July 19 and was rescheduled to July 26 due to technical difficulties.

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Index of obituaries that appeared in the Michigan City News Dispatch and earlier Michigan City newspapers. Covers 1887-present.

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