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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Get Out!

Looking for something to do this weekend in Canton: It's all here!

At 6:30 A.M. The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer begins at the University of Massachhusetts in Boston. The walk will go to Reebok World Headquarters in Canton and then turn around and go back again. Reebok International is proud to be a national sponsor of the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and celebrates its seventh year as sponsor for this two-day event. If you aren't able to participate in the two day walk then why not join the Blue Hills Adult Walking Club at 1:00 P.M. for a 4-mile loop around Ponkapoag Pond on the green dot trail. Meet at the Ponkapoag Golf Course parking lot at 2173 Washington Street in Canton. From 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Canton Police Officer Kenny Drinan will be at the Canton Public Library Children's Room with his dog "Jake" …

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Jake the Certified Therapy Dog at the Canton Public Library

Sergeant Kenny Drinan of the Canton Police Department and his dog Jake read to Canton children at the public library.

Meet Jake, an 8-year-old golden retriever, owned by Canton Police Sergeant Kenny Drinan. Jake has a following in Canton. Once a month you will find him with his owner at the Canton Public Library where Jake meets all the children in the children's room to read stories together. Jake is no ordinary dog. He is very special dog and has an outstanding temperament.  "Jake had to go through an 8-week training program, but so did I," said Drinan. "And the TDI (Therapy Dogs International) are stringent. They want to make sure that your dog can handle loud noises and other animals as well. They put Jake in another room where he couldn't see me, to see how he would do on his own." "This will be our 47th visit to the Canton Public Library. At 50 …

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8:36 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Jake will be at the Canton Public Library on May 19th, Saturday, at 1:00 P.M.!   more ›

Monday, May 7, 2012

Canton Art Association President Steps Down

Spring Art exhibit at the library.

Friday marked the opening of the Canton Art Association spring art exhibit which will run through Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Canton Public Library. Canton Art Association president, Ellen McHugo announced on Friday that she would be stepping down as president and encouraged the group to submit names of people who would make a good leader. The Canton Art Association was started back in 1951 by Margaret Doody who was the head librarian at the Canton Public Library at that time. Each year the "Margaret Doody Award" is given to a high school student deemed most promising by the Art Department of Canton High School. The Art Association always looking for new members, please contact EMcHugo@aol.com if interested in joining.  

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Five Things You Need to Know: March 27, 2012

Come to the Patch Academy!

1. Be sure to come to Patch Academy today and meet your Canton editor and editors from Milton Patch and Braintree Patch. 10:30 am to 1:30pm at the Milton Public Library. 2. Board of Selectmen Meeting  to discuss the current agenda tonight at 7 pm at the Canton Town Hall. 3.Free Tax Assitance at the Canton Senior Center from 9:00 A.M. till 12 Noon. 4. First Time Home Buyers Seminar from 5:30pm to 8:30 pm at the Canton Public Library in the Community Room. Presented by The Sovereign Bank for the South Shore Housing Community. 5. Toddler Tuesday's from10:00 am - 11:00 am at Visual Arts Center, 963 Washington Street, Canton. This program is for 2-to-4-year-olds.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Murder and Mystery Take Over the Canton Public Library Tonight

Tonight, the Canton Public Library transforms from Read and Write to Red and White!

By Kathy Fox Alfano We thought we had it under control, but when the lights go out and the librarians go home, the characters in your favorite books and DVDs have again escaped their confines and come out to play. Tonight (Friday, November 4) there will once again, be a Murder in the Library! We ask all Canton citizens and their friends to come to the library and help solve the crime. Miss Marple and her team of detectives from Nick and Nora Charles from the Thin Man, to Quint from Jaws, to Wadworth from Clue, and those precocious kid sleuths, the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Harry Potter–will try to discover who did it, how and why in just 90 minutes. Can you help them?   There’s a prize for the most accurate solution. While our guests …

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