Apr 15, 2021
There have been 39 Tama residents chosen as Tama Citizen of the Year since the Tama Firefighters Association annual honor began in 1982.
Nomination for the 2021 award are due Thursday, May 13, at 5 p.m. Submit your choice to the Tama City Clerk, 305 Siegel St, Tama, IA 52339 or by calling 641-484-3822.
Each year the honoree has been selected for the resident’s contribution of their own time and effort to better the community. With the COVID-19 pandemic canceling the 2020 Tama Lincoln Highway Bridge Festival, the most recent Citizen of the Year recipient was Anne Michael in 2019.
The 2021 Tama Citizen of the Year will be announced the week of May 13 and will be recognized during the Lincoln Highway Bridge Festival on May 22 at noon.
“Desire” and “still” don’t rhyme in English, but they do rhyme in American Sign Language. Just as poets can evoke emotions and meaning by choosing words that echo one another in English, actress and Tony nominee Lauren Ridloff chooses signs that visually echo one another in her ASL adaptation of Anne Michaels’ poem “Not.”
For spoken languages, there are many resources that contain information about how often words are used, which words rhyme and other information not found in a dictionary. But until recently, there was no such thing for sign languages.
We are four researchers who study psycholinguistics, linguistics, neuroscience and deaf education. Our team of deaf and hearing scientists worked with a group of software engineers to create the ASL-LEX database that anyone can use for free. We cataloged information on nearly 3,000 signs and built a visual, searchable and interactive database that allows scientists and linguists to work with ASL in entirely new ways.
Library - Tama, IA
Teen Area at the library
The library now has a lego table, legos and lego books for its teen area due to receiving a grant from the Mansfield Trust.
The library was also able to purchase four new soft chairs, four stackable chairs and a table for the Teen Area through this grant.
Want to come in for a visit? Ring the bell to the right of the door to be let in for 30 minutes. Masks are required. Browse for books, use a computer, build a Lego masterpiece, use the Wi-fi.
Summer Reading/Learning
Plans are underway for our annual summer programming. The library plans to be Virtual again this year. This year’s theme is “Reading Colors your World.” Watch for more information as it gets closer to June.
Things are stacked against women’s writing. Can a new prize for women writers really change things?
Novelist Shashi Deshpande fears the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will not add dignity and prestige to women’s writing overnight. Feb 21, 2021 · 08:30 am Eimear McBride, winner of the 2014 Bailey s Women s Prize for Fiction, for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing . | Neil Hall / Reuters
The announcement of a prize for women writers in the USA and Canada, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has attracted much attention for two reasons. One, the prize money is very large (150,000 Canadian dollars for the winner alone), next only to the Nobel Prize. And two, the prize is exclusively for women writers.
John V. Sands.
Surrounded by his loving family, printing industry leader and mentor John V. Sands passed away at age 87 on December 31, 2020 at his home in Mississauga, Ontario, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, he excelled in athletics – including tennis, football, golf and especially speed skating. In fact, he represented Canada twice in the Olympics and for 12 years held the Canadian speed-skating record in the 500 metres. Sands moved to Montreal in 1958 where he met his wife Micheline of 57 years, who survives him along with their three children Stéphanie (Sean), Mélanie (JJ), and Eryk. John’s grandchildren Paisley, Sierra, Zoé and Janine will always remember their grandpa and his unconditional love for them. Sands is predeceased by his parents Anne & Michael, older brother Sandy, and survived by his older sister Irene.