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A Special Invitation from the Friends’ Remembrance Fund
We want to invite you, our neighbors and friends, to a musical party to show that WE remember YOU. This is a thank you for your support of the library and our efforts to help sustain the high level of service the library offers to us all. We are a community. We hope you will come together with us
for a night of music and good cheer.
There will be Latin Jazz music we hope will please all our guests, young and old alike. If the weather is good, the concert will be outside and you can bring a picnic to enjoy as we are being serenaded.
DATE: Saturday, June 26th
TIME: 6:00 PM
PLACE: Fair skies, on the lawn / rainy, in the Community Room
SEE YOU THERE!
July 29 - Cookbook Sale in Conjunction with Chefs & Books
August 5- Cookbook Sale in Conjunction with Chefs & Books
October 16 - Kids and Cookbooks
November 20 Nearly New Sale
Friends Gifts to the Library 2009
In the past year 2009 the Friends of the Farmington Library have been very active & successful in raising monies for a variety of library needs through 3 book sales, June Garden tour and our annual membership drive. We cannot begin to thank all our volunteers, townspeople and local businesses for their continued support of our many activities. We are very proud to be able to fund the following this year:
- Annual Gift to library budget $6000
- Barney Library Renovation $60,000*
- Summer Reading $1500
- Wacky Wednesdays $2500
- Teen programs $500
- Adult programs $800
- Barney Library children’s programs $1000
- CLA Conference (Staff Development) $1200
- Museum Passes $2300
- Computers $2700
- Books on CD $4000
- 1000 Books before Kindergarten $2000
*Total pledged over 3 years (to be paid early in 2 years)
We are also involved in promoting literacy in our community and beyond. We supported the collection of new books for the “Giving Tree” for the Catholic Charities of Hartford. And, books not sold at our major book sale were contributed to state prison libraries, the Farmington Senior Center and other local charities.
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