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Dig into reading at library
Tom Sparough, known as “Space Painter,” a professional entertainer, will be the guest at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today at the Shelby County Public Library. The “Dig into reading” special event will have jugging, storytelling and fun. For more information, contact 633-3803.
Shelby County Fair
The Shelby County Fair will be Thursday through June 22 at the Shelby County Fairgrounds.

Library’s summer reading  program begins Saturday

The Shelby County Public Library will launch its annual summer reading program with a party on Saturday morning.

The event, which is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., will include an ice cream sundaes social, digging for treasure activities for children and the Kentucky Blue bluegrass band.

Summer reading story hours will start at 10 a.m. Wednesday for ages toddler through 4-year-olds and will continue each Tuesday through July 23.

Rochelle Arnold Jr. and the former Catherine Chambers were married May 6, 1963, in Shelbyville.

Her father, the late Rev. James R. Chambers, performed the marriage ceremony. Her mother is the late Genevieve Brown Chambers. She graduated from Lincoln Institute in 1961 and received a Bachelor of Science in computer information systems from Athens State University. She retired from AT&T in Birmingham, Ala., after 33 years of service.

Students from Collins High School collected items for care packages to Pvt. II Joshua Whittle and his platoon in Afghanistan with the National Guards. Whittle graduated from CHS last year. Bekaert Corp. in Shelbyville became involved by being a community partner with the PLTW (Project Lead The Way) engineering program, in which Whittle took three classes. Bakaert will sponsor the senior service project by providing help during the event as well as providing pizzas for the senior celebration afterward.