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UPDATE: The election results have been tallied and in the Town Supervisor race, challenger Mary Joyce D’Aurizio has defeated incumbent Mary Ellen Heyman. Challengers Deborah Essley and Paul Marasco have also defeated incumbents Gail Bello and Debbie Evans in the Town Board race. Results for all local elections can be found at 13 WHAM.

Original Post: Tomorrow, November 3, is election day. So if you’re registered to vote, be sure to head out to the polls. If you don’t know your polling place, you can look it up using the Board of Elections’ Online Voter Information form. The Board of Elections also has a booklet online (warning: PDF) detailing all of the offices up for election this year. Finally, the Democrat & Chronicle has published an overview of the Irondequoit elections.

Please disregard the previous post. In observance of Columbus Day, the Irondequoit Public Library will be closed on Monday, October 12. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, October 13.

The Great Reading Race between the Helen McGraw Branch and the Chili Public Library is on. After two weeks, here’s how the scoreboard stacks up…

East Irondequoit: 665
Chili: 286

Remember, for every book you read, you need to fill out a slip with your name and the title of the book at the library. The Great Reading Race ends August 14.

The Evans Branch of the Irondequoit Public Library has partnered with Rochester Works! to provide a series of job search workshops. Topics include everything from resume writing and interviewing to job searching for the 50+ worker. Registration is required for all workshops. To register, call the Evans library at 336-6062.

The Helen McGraw Branch of the Irondequoit Public Library would like to thank the community for its tremendous response to our solicitation for knitted and crocheted swatches. Together we assembled over 70 blankets which have been distributed to local organizations including the Arc of Monroe County, Catholic Charities, Catholic Family Services, numerous nursing homes, dialysis centers, homeless shelters and a veterinary adoption agency. As well, we are indebted to Nancy Vandivert and the Warm Up America Foundation for guiding and driving the project to its realization.

Helen Pappas, one of the volunteers who put together some of the blankets.

Just a small fraction of the blankets that were made.

We’ve got a lot of new items on the shelves, so feel free to peruse the lists below.

New Books

New DVDs

New Music CDs