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2nd Annual Spelling Bee
The winning word: Fascicle
The winning team: Spanglish
Once More Unto The Beach
Third Annual Penguin Plunge
Mattheissen Park
Saturday, March 15
11:30 AM
The Friends of the Library encourages you to support the Irvington Recreation and Parks Department’s efforts to raise money.
It, like the library, has suffered budget cutbacks recently and needs private donations to maintain the programs and services it has always provided.
Every year some of us Friends form a team to participate in the Penguin Plunge. By sponsoring our team this year you are raising money for the Rec Department while raising awareness of the Friends of the Library.
You can learn more about this fund-raising event here. Use this link to sponsor our team (you’ll find us at the bottom of the right-hand column).
Help Us With our Book Sale
Even though the book sale is a bi-annual event, it is a
year-round job. We can use help sorting donations as they
arrive at the library, as well as publicizing, setting up, and
staffing the event itself. For more information, contact us at
friends.booksale@gmail.com
Setting up the Annual Book Sale
Winners: Youth Category
TIED FOR 1ST PLACE
Your favorite book
falls open like it wants you
to read it again
AND
In the beginning
you quickly gobble up words
but savor the last
2ND PLACE
kids room koala
in the room of excitement
perches with its kin
3RD PLACE
I like libraries
Because they bring happiness
Also they bring joy
Winners: Adult Category
1ST PLACE
Read to me tonight
Something from your childhood
Put my mind at ease
2ND PLACE
My memory is
Of a book whose title I
Can’t remember now
3RD PLACE
Rough Irish waters
Sea legs ride a rhythm wild
In the travel aisle
Contest Winners
Nine contestants were awarded prizes at a short ceremony held in the soon-to-be refurbished Tiffany Reading Room on Saturday, September 11.
Prizes went to:
Children (up to and including age 12):
- 1st Place: Christina Baulch
- 2nd Place: Emma Castiblanco
- 3rd Place: Chloe Le Breton
Teenager (ages 13-17):
- 1st Place: Fou Wang
- 2nd Place: Rebecca Kissel
- 3rd Place: Dylan Romanow Etzel
Adult (ages 18 and up):
- 1st Place: Eytan Wronker
- 2nd Place: Richard Lobel (tied)
- 2nd Place: Maeve Montalvo (tied)
- 3rd Place: Connie Kehoe
First Prize
The winning entry in the adult category was this self-portrait by Eytan Wronker, who enters a whole other world when he reads a book on his balcony over-looking the Hudson!
1st Annual Spelling Bee
The winning word: Embouchure
The winning team: Wordly Women
It Takes a Village
The Friends would like to thank the following people and organizations for making the spelling bee possible, through their generous contribution of time, talent, and money
Can’t wait for our next sale??
You don’t have to wait until next June for those quality used books you love to buy at our semi-annual book sales.
Friends of the Irvington Library has partnered with Amazon to offer a choice selection of our books year round!
All proceeds from every book on the Friends’ bookshelf there will go directly to the Irvington Public Library, and you will enjoy the relaxed, comfortable shopping experience we can’t offer you at our semi-annual sales.
Browse At Your Own Risk
There’s Always Something for Everyone
at a Friends’ Book Sale
And Our Prices are Unbeatable!
What We Do
Over the last several years, membership dues and funds raised
at Friends events have been used by the library for (among
other things):
- programs for children of all ages, from toddlers
to teens; - adult programming, including lectures, exhibits,
film series, readings, theatrical performances and concerts; - the purchase of CDs, audio books, DVDs, Playaways, and museum passes;
- the acquisition of a grand piano for the library’s program room, thanks to which the library now can offer a regular series of music performances;
- the restoration of the beautiful Tiffany Reading Room of the original Public Library in Irvington Town Hall.
- the transformation of the library courtyard into a reading garden in honor of Pamela Strachan.
What You Can Do
While being a member of the Friends can be as simple as making an annual donation, members can also get involved by volunteering at the library, helping organize events, or participating in the Friends’ fund raising efforts such as book sales and the spelling bee.
All members are eligible to serve as Directors.
You can become a Friend of the Library right now, by paying your tax-deductible membership dues. Just click on the button!
Board of Directors
Sarah Harris Weiss, President
Heather Bancroft, Vice President
Dana Levin, Secretaries
Claire Cornish, Treasurer
Matthew Lowenbraun, Digital Communications Manager
Dina Friedman
Susan Robinson
Andrea Sarayli
Katelyn Jee
Sofia Garrigo
Showing our Colors
Memorial Day 2010