Clark County Public Library

TODAY - Community Education belly dance class, 6:15-7:30 p.m., $6/class, Parks Department Health and Wellness Center, 15 Wheeler Ave. THURSDAY, FEB. 9 - Wine About Winter, downtown Winchester, 5-8 p.m. Wine tasting, appetizers and live music from Wyler Dykeman. FRIDAY, FEB. 10 - Hart Chapter DAR meeting, 2 p.m., Clark County Public Library. Mrs. Michael Codell will present “Something Borrowed, Something Blue: A DAR Museum Presentation.” - Winchester Rotary Club, noon, Winchester Country Club.

What's new at the library this week? Well, just about everything. Over the past few months significant changes and improvements have been made to every section of the library. First of all, the entire collection was “weeded.” That means library staff went through every section of the library - book by book, item by item - with printouts that showed the date each piece was added to the collection, the last date it circulated and the number of times it circulated. Doing that allowed us to withdraw items that were obsolete, no longer circulating or too ragged to be appealing anymore.

TODAY - Clark County Human Services Council will meet at noon at Arby's. All human service agencies serving Clark County are invited to send a representative. - Compassionate Friends support group meeting for bereaved parents will be at 7 p.m. at Hospice East on Shoppers Drive. Parents who have lost a child at any age from any cause are invited to attend, as well as family and friends. Adults only. - Celebrate Recovery, 7 p.m., Calvary Christian Church, 15 Redwing Drive, entrance C. A program based on the 12 steps and the Eight Beatitudes for any hurt, habit or hang-up with support groups for family members, as well as Celebration Station for kids and The Landing for teens.

There are two new displays in the Clark County Public Library foyer this month. Stop by and take a look at them next time you drop by. On the right side of the foyer is a display of comics from days when comics were actually comic, funny, instead of sagas about sociopaths from both sides of the law filled with existential dread. There are examples of forgotten comic strips like Old Doc Yak, The Stone Age Family, Sherlocko the Monk, Polly and Her Pals, and Barney Google. Think of that, the most powerful search engine in the world is named after a scruffy old country guy. Isn't it?