Friends of the Library members enjoyed a festive holiday luncheon at Camp Tuolumne Trails in December. The meeting included a review of the year’s goals and their outcomes. Financial goals were met allowing significant donations to the county library system, funding for library enhancement, literacy outreach programs and donations of new children’s books for the Christmas Basket program. Membership goals were surpassed with a record number of 101, including 36 new members. A literary event, “Local Writers: First Works” was held and met with enthusiastic response. The Book Nook had a very successful year in participation and sales. Carole Pennachi, local artist, donated the copyright to one of her pictures to FOGL, thereby increasing our fund raising avenues. Other sources of funding included a percentage of artwork sales revenue, a large donation from Carmen Anderson’s mayoral campaign and personal memorial donations. Literacy outreach programs included the Summer Reading Program, Bookleggers program at Tenaya, volunteer staffing at Tenaya’s library and participation in the Brainy Groveland Reading Incentive program. And to add frosting to our FOGL cake, our Trivia Bee team took first place in the annual county library event.
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FOGL officers are installed for 2012: President, Virginia Gustafson; Vice President, Harriet Codeglia; Secretary, Barbara Coldren; Treasurer, Phyllis Gschwend.
The year ahead promises to be every bit as successful, if not more, with our new officers at the helm: Virginia Gustafson, President; Harriet Codeglia, Vice-President; Barbara Coldren, Secretary and Phyllis Gschwend continuing as Treasurer.
Many thanks to the community for your support and participation, making possible our rewarding achievements.
The Friends meet every fourth Tuesday at 2:00 downstairs at the library. We welcome visitors and love new members. Next meeting is January 24th, 2012. For further information please contact Nadine Pedron at 962-6953 or email: epedron@att.net.
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