Category Archives: Highlights

The Friends of the Library Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month on the second floor of the Millennium Library. New members are welcome at any time – just come to the second floor and ask staff to direct you to the meeting room. NEXT MEETING: SEPTEMBER 15 10:15 a.m. The book […]

Fall Book Sale chair, Billie Stewart, reports that donations for our Fall Book Sale have been first rate this year – especially fiction, mystery and cookbooks of every kind! If you have gently loved books (or CDs, DVDs) you want to pass on to support our work please drop them off in a bag or […]

Spring sunshine flooded the room at the Gates on Roblin on Sunday morning, May 3rd, for the Tenth Anniversary Books & Brunch, a Friends’ signature fundraiser. Guests were greeted by a gorgeous Gates’ Brunch, a great Rainbow Auction and some very entertaining speakers. The highlight of Books & Brunch is always “Books I Have Known and […]

One of the hardest working members of our board has stepped down.  Susan Fraser has been actively involved for the past 15 years and for most of this time she was the president and oversaw the birth of our two signature fundraisers:  the Fall Book Sale and Books & Brunch.  She was also the dynamo […]

Our 10th  anniversary Fall Book Sale held on October 25th and 26th broke the record by netting the Friends well over $12,000!   Kudos to great volunteers who worked together to make this absolutely the best sale ever!  In the words of Book Sale chair, Billie Stewart: “Whatever we’re doing, we should keep doing it”.  What we do is […]