2007.11.08: November 8, 2007: Headlines: COS - Mali: The Third Goal: Boston Globe: Ellen Snoeyenbos, head of Duxbury library's young-adult section, will screen a video on her daughter Gretchen's work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali
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2007.11.08: November 8, 2007: Headlines: COS - Mali: The Third Goal: Boston Globe: Ellen Snoeyenbos, head of Duxbury library's young-adult section, will screen a video on her daughter Gretchen's work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali
Ellen Snoeyenbos, head of Duxbury library's young-adult section, will screen a video on her daughter Gretchen's work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali
Gretchen Snoeyenbos, who works in a hospital in the town of Dioila in Mali, has been raising funds in Duxbury and other local towns to provide a new sanitation system for the hospital.
Ellen Snoeyenbos, head of Duxbury library's young-adult section, will screen a video on her daughter Gretchen's work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali
DUXBURY
AFRICAN CONNECTION - Ellen Snoeyenbos, head of the library's young-adult section, will screen a video on her daughter Gretchen's work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali as part of a library program featuring author Kris Holloway. Holloway's book, "Monique and the Mango Rains," a memoir of her two years in Mali as a Peace Corps volunteer working with a West African midwife, was a local bestseller. Gretchen Snoeyenbos, who works in a hospital in the town of Dioila in Mali, has been raising funds in Duxbury and other local towns to provide a new sanitation system for the hospital. Free tickets for the program, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Merry Room, are available at the library. -Robert Knox
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