The seventh annual Go-Fore Golf fundraiser at the Quarryville Library is shaping up to be one of the event's better years. "We have more sponsors than last year and those sponsors have contributed more than last year," said Randi Kennedy, the library's youth services coordinator. Although they haven't set a formal target, "our goal is to have the event go as well as it did last year," Kennedy said. From her first visit, Cheri Crow liked the Quarryville Library. The board supports the library staff, the atmosphere is good, and the programs are outstanding, she said. Those are some of the reasons she decided to make the move from a large county system to director of a rural library. "I like working with the public and this is a chance to do that," she said last week. One devoted group of small boys manages to turn every theme into a vehicle.
"No matter what the theme, they make cars," Quarryville Library's youth services director Randi Kennedy said last Thursday night as she set up for the monthly Lego night. Sometimes, knitting is a solitary craft. But not on Thursday evenings. That's when a group of knitters, experienced and novice alike, gather in the meeting room at the Quarryville Library to share their art. The informal group began meeting eight or nine years ago, member Debby Joy said last week. "A bunch of knitters said they needed to get together and knit. That's how it started," Joy said. "We enjoy the camaraderie." The Friends of the Quarryville Library hope this will be their last big book sale.
They're not giving up on the sales; they just want to spread the program out. Ever since the current library opened more than a decade ago, the group has been holding two sales a year. Last year they added a third sale in an effort to keep books from piling up in their basement storage area. There will be some changes when the auctioneer begins the Quarryville Library's second annual benefit sale. Instead of mixing items during the sale, like merchandise will be grouped. "We will be doing it in hour-long blocks," said Linda Walter said. "We didn't do that last year. People want to know when things will be sold." The selection of sale items will also change this year. "We're having a number of bushes and small trees donated by Octoraro Native Plant Nursery," Walter said. The plants include New Jersey Tea, native Viburnum, and blueberry bushes and small Eastern Redbud trees. The Friends of the Quarryville Library have been trying different ways to sell donated books. They've offered them at their lobby bookstore, on the internet, by silent auctions in the library's showcases, and, most recently, in a one-day sale. But twice a year they return to their original fundraiser, a four-day sale. Those sales bring in about half of the group's annual budget. "We're committed to giving $28,000 a year to the library," group member Donna Trimble said. "$18,000 of that goes toward operating expenses and $10,000 to purchase more items for the library's collection. A month from now, the Friends of the Quarryville Library will host their first one-day inventory reduction book sale. "This is a new idea for us. We hope to sell more books this way and give us some room in our storage area," said Friends president Carol Biscardi. Eventually, the group hopes to hold a one-day sale every two months. Susan Mull likes to read. Aloud. Mull volunteers at the Quarryville Library and works part-time teaching gifted children in the Lancaster School District. "I was a full-time teacher and I performed and read aloud every day," she said. She will be doing just that in the early morning hours of November 9. For 15 minutes, between 12:30 and 12:45 a.m., she will be reading selections from one of her favorite books, Bryce Courtenay's The Power Of One. About 100 runners turned out for the second annual Run a Good Race in Kirkwood on Saturday, October 12. “The weather kept a number of people away,” organizer Lori Kelley said. “We would have liked to see more people.” The race raised money for the Quarryville and Oxford libraries.
Songs by Diana Ross. Autobiographies from Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Burns. Vinyl records and eight-track tapes, perfect for the player mounted under the dash of a vintage Edsel. There's even a coffee table book about the Kennedy years that carries President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's signature. These are just some of the items the Friends of the Quarryville Library will be selling at their annual fall sale. Applying lessons learned from their inaugural run, organizers hope to attract more runners to Union Presbyterian Church's second annual Run A Good Race. They have hired professional timers because they were told that would attract more runners, organizer Lori Kelley said. "We had 152 people last year," she said. "We would like to see 300 this year." The race began as a way to draw younger people to the church. "This is a family event. We will have music, refreshments, and other activities," Kelley said."We started it as a way to get people here and they really enjoyed it." |
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