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The Friends of the Wake Forest Public
Library need your help in collecting
used and usable books at their
collection sites for the annual used
book sale on May 6.
“The goal for the annual
book sale is $2,000,” Eugene Adams said.
Adams, a member of the Friends board, is
coordinating the sale which will be held
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the former
Winn-Dixie in the Wake Forest Plaza on
Brooks Street. Last year the sale netted
just over $1,900.
“We are especially in need
of children’s books and works of fiction
as well as VHS tapes, cassettes and
DVDs,” Adams said.
Hardback books will cost $2,
paperbacks $1 and there will be varied
prices for recordings and software.
There will be a price reduction at 12:30
p.m.
The Friends use the money
from the book sale to sponsor free
programs at the library and to support
the library in other ways. This winter
president Lynda Cruetzburg and several
board members attended a meeting of the
Wake County Library Commission to ask
that the Wake Forest library, which is
very overcrowded, be expanded.
Commission members were receptive and
also decided Friends groups would be
useful at other community library. They
asked Cruetzburg to speak to library
officials this spring about Friends and
its formation. There is a statewide
association of Friends and local
chapters in many towns and cities.
The collection sites are
SunTrust Bank, the Corner Ice Cream
Parlor, Fidelity Bank, Full Moon Italian
Café, Harris Teeter in Heritage,
Heritage Middle School, Lowe’s Foods,
Premieres Video, Roscoe’s Outdoor
Company, Skipper’s Spirits and Good
Eats, Northern Wake Senior Center, State
Employees Credit Union, Kroger in
Wakefield, Wake Forest Elementary, Wake
Forest Federal Savings & Loan, Wake
Forest Food Lion, Wake Forest-Rolesville
Middle School, Wake Forest Healthclub
and The Wake Weekly.
If you have any questions or
if you need someone to pick up your
books, you can call Adams at 556-4454.
The goal is to collect the bulk of the
books between now and April 28, but
collecting will continue to May 6. |
