Et cetera : CP Friends of Library Planning More Barnes & Noble Bookfairs

At its Jan 5 meeting the Center Point Friends of the Library reviewed the Barnes & Noble Bookfair they had in December and decided to sign up for Easter and Christmas 2012 Bookfairs.

Library patrons and the kindness of strangers and Barnes & Noble helped Friends have a successful fund raiser for the Library. (Final figures aren’t yet in for the Dec. 10 Bookfair.) Helping with the Bookfair was teacher and author Andy Allen who did a reading and book signing of his newly released “Stormin’ Norman: The Soggy Doggy.”

Also helping were: CPU’s own Stormin’ Norman (Cassie Oliver); cheerleaders Lindsey Cole, Emily Mensen and Savanna Crandall and their coach Shannan Flemming. CPU dance coach Melissa James helped coordinate the students’ participation.

Friends volunteers who worked at the Bookfair or at a gift wrap for donations table Dec. 16 at Barnes & Noble were: Roberta Gilchrist, Dorothea Wood, Christina Lahr, Sharon Hannen, Janine Walters and Marj Pepin. Deb Maue donated a Barnes & Noble gift card for a door prize which was won by Darcy Duart of Urbana.

Attending the Friends January meeting was guest Eloise Dennis who has given Friends a substantial stock of the book “Lewis Bottoms Its Legacy and Lore.” Friends discussed a possible grant for a website promoting the book’s sale and outlining the history of the area south of the Center Point Cedar River bridge where Eloise’s family pioneered in the 1840s.

Additional guests at the meeting were CPU Government students Jeremy Willis and Paige Wilkin.

In other business Friends set the 2012 used book sale Saturday Aug. 4 through Saturday August 11, voted to buy a new vacuum cleaner for the Library and discussed plans for the annual poetry gala which will be Sunday, April 15.