Spring Cleaning Blitz -- blitzed!!
Next time you're in the building, look around for dust, or little remnants of tape on the walls, etc. If you find any, email the Friends and let us know where we need to give more attention.
Next time you're in the building, look around for dust, or little remnants of tape on the walls, etc. If you find any, email the Friends and let us know where we need to give more attention.
Ice Cream Social 2010
The Friends' Board Meeting tonight was pretty straightforward. The major item of new business was to begin to think about the Ice Cream Social for this coming July 4th weekend. It will be held on Friday July 2nd this year, to kick off the festivities that Evansville Community Partnership has planned for the entire weekend. If you have any ideas on how to make the ICS even even better than it's been in the past, please get in touch with Fred Juergens at 882-2489.We'll be having live entertainment and a charity auction, in addition to serving up gobs of ice-cream and cake. Lots more news and details will come as the plans come together.
School Forest Exhibit at Library
Nancy Kress has installed a very informative exhibit at our library concerning the Grove Campus School Forest Trail. It's in the east front window of the library.A major part of School Forest is on Fair Street and there's a trail that includes Wind Prairie and land on the exterior of Levi Leonard Elementary, Theodore Robinson Intermediate, and the fence line that's to the east of the high school. The project's part of the big building project that started in 2002 with the new high school. The Forest itself is a work in progress. So far over 1400 native Wisconsin trees and shrub have been planted.
Next time you come to Eager Free, check out the exhibit..
Gardening
Among the many enhancements that the Friends bring to the library are the plantings that greet patrons when they come up the sidewalk to the building.
It's a wonderful sign of spring when these bulbs on the west side of the building bloom. The care of these and other plantings are due to Friends' volunteer efforts on the library's behalf, for the pleasure of all those who use the library.
When you come to the library, ask one of the staff which of the Friends take on this beautification task, and then find a way to pass on your thanks for their work.
Shelves
Here's what the new shelves for the used-book area in the basement look like. Soon they'll be full of donated books, videos, cd's, etc., and hopefully you'll be making some additions to your home library.
"Spring Cleaning" Tradition revived
Our first Spring Cleaning Blitz in "quite a few" years will occur on Saturday April 24, 2010, from 1 PM until 4 PM or earlier. We'll do the "extras" that the library's regular cleaning crew just doesn't have time to do. In order to complete the tasks Kathi Kemp has planned, we need at least 15 volunteers who can wield dust-cloths, push vacuum cleaners & brooms, spray Windex, etc. Many hands make light work!
Please check with all members of your family and volunteer to dust tops of bookshelves, sweep out the furnace room, clean the basement windows inside and out, etc, etc, etc. (Kathi has a bunch of et cetera's!) Be assured that there will be no heavy work or lifting.
Once you've committed to help make your library spic & span, please email us at libraryfriends@charter.net to let us know that you're coming and how many other helpers you can bring along. We want to hear from you.
Thanks to all of you in advance, for being a Friend of the Library!
Electronic Newsletters are well-accepted
Last week I noted that, in addition to the paper newsletters the Friends send to all their members, we are sending the same newsletter as an email attachment, to all Friends who have supplied us with their email address.At least half of those who received the email have indicated that they'd just as soon receive future newsletters only in this electronic form, thus saving the Friends the money it costs to print and mail the newsletter. The savings will be applied to providing the Library with more support for its programs, activities, and acquisitions.
The Friends' Board thanks all those who will get their future newsletters over the internet. The newsletter is also posted on our webpage at;
http://www.als.lib.wi.us/EFPL/Friends%20documents/Spr10NewsletterFEFPL.pdf
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