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Last Week For Christmas Tree Pick Up, Belmont Against Racism Meets Tonight, 'J'accuse!'

Events occurring in Belmont on Monday, Jan. 13.

• This is the final week your ex-Christmas tree will be collected by Russell Disposal; just leave it on the curb with everything else. 

• Belmont Against Racism will be holding its monthly meeting from 7:30 p.m. to  9 p.m. in the Belmont Public Library's Staff Room. The BAR promotes dialogue, awareness and understanding about prejudice and celebrates diversity in Belmont. Meetings are open to the public.

Chinese culture classes continue on Mondays until the end of January at the Beech Street Center, 221 Beech St. from 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Get a taste of Chinese culture—traditional games, holidays, cooking – they will be making dumplings for Chinese New Year! – and calligraphy. The class is taught by two talented Belmont High School students supervised by their teacher. 

Belmont Public Library's monthly book review program, Books and Bites, will be held from 11 a.m. to noon in the library's downstairs Assembly Room. Marcia Lynch will discuss the novel "The Supreme Macaroni Company," by Adriana Trigiani and "Through the Evil Days: A Clare Fergusson/Russ van Alstyne Mystery" by Julia Spencer-Fleming.  Elizabeth Atkins will discuss "The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age" by Janet Wallach and "Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader" by Anne Fadiman. All are welcome to attend this free program. Refreshments will be provided. The Assembly Room is handicapped accessible.

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• On this day in 1898, the greatest letter to the editor, novelist Emile Zola's "J'accuse" – a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason – was published in the Paris newspaper, L'Aurore.


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