Community Corner

Nighttime at the Benton, Yoga, Story Time and More

Events occurring in Belmont on Friday, August 2.

1. The Benton Library will be opened from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. as Belmont's volunteer library opens its doors to residents and Browse and borrow. Look at the latest New York Times best sellers.  Use our Wi-Fi.  The Benton is open late on the first Friday of the month.

2. Insituform Technologies will be performing sewer and street drain repair work along Waverley Street, Rutledge Road and Village Hill. And there will be sewer lining work on the Chilton Street easementBe prepared for the roadway to be narrow in areas.

3. At 10:30 a.m., Denise Patnod will lead Benton Library's Pre-school Story Time, a 45-minute program geared toward children between 3 and 5. It features a variety of stories, as well as music, finger plays and/or a craft. Parents and caregivers must remain with their preschooler during the program. Sign up is not required. 

4. Morning yoga, taught by professional instructors, is being held this morning from 9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 582 Pleasant St, in Gardiner Hall, at the back of the church. $10. All levels welcome just bring your own mat if you can. $6 per child for child care. All proceeds benefit Plymouth Nursery School.

5. On this day in 1876, "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood in present-day South Dakota. The hand Bill was holding? A pair of aces and eights, known in poker forever as a "dead man's hand." ALWAYS fold that combination.

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