Events at the Library
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Events at the Library
Since 1934, the Waynesboro – Wayne County Library has been a center of activity in the community hosting several events, ranging from those sponsored by groups locally in our area to welcoming special guests such as authors and presenters throughout the state. The mission of the Waynesboro-Wayne County Library is to provide and promote open access to the resources and services of the library in order to meet the informational, educational, and cultural needs of the community. The library seeks to encourage reading and the use of current technology for life-long learning, to provide educational programs, and to collect and preserve the history of Wayne County, Mississippi.
To host such events, the library has a large meeting room that has been used for events as large as graduations. The library also has a smaller meeting room to accommodate smaller groups of fifteen to twenty people. If you are looking for a quieter place to study or for an area where a very small group of three to five can discuss a team project, our library provides a small study room perfectly suited for such occasions.
Featured Events
FREE TAX FORMS
The Waynesboro-Wayne County Library has free federal tax forms from the Internal Revenue Service and Mississippi state tax forms from the Mississippi Department of Revenue available to the public. Copies of federal tax Form 1040 are also available in Spanish.
A new IRS publication is Form 1040-SR as an optional alternative to using Form 1040 for taxpayers who are age 65 or older.Mississippi state tax forms are available for residents, non-residents, and part-year residents. Patrons may print forms not available at the library from the IRS website at ww.irs.com for 25 cents a page. The deadline for filing federal and state taxes is Monday, April 15, 2024. The library is open Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. For more information, contact the library at (601) 735-2268 or by email at librarywayne39367@gmail.com.
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SEED LIBRARY RESTOCKED FOR SPRING
Thanks to a 2024 Library Service & Technology Grant, the Waynesboro-Wayne County Library will distribute free heirloom seeds to area residents through the established Seed Library. Each person can select three packages of seeds, a biodegradable seeding pot, or a pair of gardening gloves while supplies last. This program was designed to encourage education about food production, gardening, and seed saving and has been an ongoing project for the last two years. The process is very simple – pick up free seeds at the library, grow plants, vegetables, or herbs, save the seeds after the harvest is over, and then return dry, labeled seeds in envelopes provided by the library to keep the Seed Library restocked every year. Library Director Patsy C. Brewer stated, “We want to provide gardeners of Wayne County with a variety of seeds – tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peas, corn, watermelon, eggplant, and herbs and many more species, and very specifically the “heirloom” variety.”
Some of the seeds that are available are 1500-year-old cave beans, Texas onion, Indian giant snake bean, Autumn giant leek seeds, Chinese giant mustard seeds, Filderkraul cabbage seeds, King of the Garden lima beans, Warsaw pasta squash, Fiderkraut cabbage, Charleston Gray watermelon, Boston pickling cucumbers, Golden bantam 12-row corn, Chinese five-color peppers, Orange hat tomatoes, Marian rutabaga, Banana pepper, Evil olive tomatoes, Birdhouse gourds, Calima snap beans, Fish pepper, Bread and salt tomatoes, Purple hull pinkeye cowpeas, Glass gem corn, Thai green frog fingers eggplant, Spoon tomatoes, Stevia, Alabama red okra, Catnip, Luffa gourd, Abe Lincoln original tomatoes, Berkeley pink tie-dye tomatoes, Zucchini golden squash, King Tut purple peas, plus a multitude of other seeds.
Approximately 1,000 packets of non-GMO seeds were purchased from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds. Non-GMO seeds are cultivated through pollination and not produced in a laboratory. Open-pollinated seeds, by contrast, are produced from random pollination by wind, birds, insects, or other natural means. Gardeners who save seeds from open-pollinated plants can keep them genetically pure by isolating the plants from the pollen of other plants. Then, they save seeds from those plants to grow out the following season, confident that the seeds will possess the same characteristics as the parent plant or grow “true to type.”
For more information, contact Patsy C. Brewer, Library Director, at (601) 735-2268 or by email at librarywayne39367@gmail.com.
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