Is Wellington a “metropolitan” city? One hundred thirty-eight years ago on May 4th, 1886, the very first streetcar ran here. This milestone was heralded as the pinnacle of being a “real” city, along with such modern amenities as electric lights and city water.
At 6 PM last Saturday during the Prom Walk-In, all eyes were on the footwear. Rose shoes, platform heels, strappy sandals, and brightly colored kicks adorned the feet of juniors and seniors alike, each pair meticulously chosen to complement their fabulous gowns or tuxedos. While the glamorous wardrobe selections showcased plenty of blues and greens, the predominant color of the night paid homage to Barbie - pink reigned supreme!
10am, Chamber Coffee at Memorial Auditorium. This week’s host is the National Depression Glass Association Museum.
The Wellington Carnegie Public Library provided the perfect backdrop for the community to gather and witness the solar eclipse together. For weeks, the library staff had meticulously planned for the event, and their vision came to fruition in spectacular fashion.
The City Council meeting opened with the call to order and Pledge of Allegiance. There was no audience participation during this meeting.
Have you ever heard someone say, “We have the internet, we don’t need the library”? I beg to differ! Our Library is truly something special. The Wellington Public Library provides many benefits beyond the simple act of checking out a book.
Poetry Month continues through April, enjoy this verse from novelist Joseph Rudyard Kipling, who is most well known for writing “The Jungle Book”. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream, and not make dreams your master; If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And, which is more, you’ll be a Man, my son! .
THURSDAY, APRIL 11 Poetry on the Lawn at 5:30pm SATURDAY, APRIL 13 YA Glow Golf Contest at 8pm MONDAY, APRIL 15 $ Tree Hacks at 5pm TUESDAY, APRIL 16 Explore and Play at 10:30am Adult Coloring all day Bookies Book Club at 5:30pm WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Raising Readers Storytime at 10:30am THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Humanities Speaker “The Women of Brown” at 6:30pm .
Thursday, April 11 10am, Chamber Coffee at Memorial Auditorium. This week’s host is the Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society.