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Sawyer Free Library is featuring the children's movie [amazon B008JFUQ16 inline]! Join Gru and his gang of minions in a new adventure where Gru handles the new challenges he faces as a parent and small business owner, and retired supervillain.  This sequel is fun for the whole family, and the minions steal the show with their comedic slaptstick antics!

The Cape Ann Community Cinema hosts a fundraiser featuring a presentation of films by local children and the new documentary 'Project Wild Thing'! Kestrel Educational Adventures will first present films created by their 7-10 year old Nature Film Making Students, followed by a showing of this BRAND new documentary from Great Britain that encourages people to get outside and reconnect with nature!

At this Quest Fest, learn all about Questing! Make your own stamp and passport and participate in the fastest growing family recreational adventure this side of the Atlantic. The Sweetbay Swamp Quest is a clue-based treasure hunt through the swamp trails, discovering stories about our nearly "loved to death" Sweetbay Magnolia and to a Quest Treasure Box. Pre-registration required.

When it comes to understanding our wild critter friends, we may be more in the dark than bats — and Tom French, of Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife, is just the man to enlighten us. At 6:30 on Tuesday, October 29, the Gloucester Garden Club will present a Halloween special talk given by French on bats, our helpful little friends, at Sawyer Free Library. The only flying mammals, known by their scientific name Chiroptera, bats vastly improve our lives by eating up to half their weight in insects each night.