Library House Tour Needs You!

This year's home tour is too good to miss!  Join me in visiting 5 great homes and 1 beautiful garden.  Coyle and Grove Libraries need your participation to make the 2012 home tour a success.  Every dollar spent on a tour booklet goes straight to those to libraries.  This year, in particular, every fundraising dollar counts as we deal with the $250,000 per year cut the state made in our Franklin County public library funding.  Get your tourbooks right away, because quantities are limited.  Cost is $20 per person. Then enjoy the afternoon of June 3, touring the homes at your own pace.  Take a vanful and make it a party!  My family always does.

Thank you! Hope to see you there!

Have Fun and Help, This Weekend

Tickets are still available for the Annual Chambersburg Library Home Tour this Sunday, June 27, from Noon to 5:00 p.m. Six awesome homes to tour, all for $20! Support your Chambersburg library and enjoy yourself at the same time! Tickets are at Coyle Free and Grove Family Libraries. Those libraries will be open during the tour and will probably have tickets to sell that day. However, when the ticket supply runs out, no more will be made, so get yours today to be sure.

Thank you!

Chambersburg Spring House Tour

Get your tickets now, while supplies last. For just $20.00 you can tour 6 wonderful houses in the Chambersburg area. Last year, this event sold out at 600 participants. This year tickets are available until we hit that mark.

Our main sponsor is Wolf's Furniture. There is a wonderful raffle connected with the tour with many great prizes. You do not need to go on the tour to purchase your raffle tickets.

Grove Phone-a-thon

I would like to thank all the volunteers and staff who worked over the last 3 days to phone almost 1200 residents about donating to Grove Building Fund to help reduce the debt! I also thank Smith, Elliott, Kearns & Company LLC for allowing our volunteers to use their telephones for 3 evenings! I believe the event was a great success. Many people committed to donations. We will not know the monetary results until their checks start rolling in, because often they needed to consult with a spouse before deciding on an amount.

Early next week, everyone who received a call will receive a follow-up mailing. During the second quarter of this year, we received more than $37,000 in new commitments to Grove campaign. The Ssytem Annual Appeal is also doing well. Thank you donors, one and all. We are approaching the $600,000 level on the remaining principal in the Grove mortgage. We have come a long way from $1 million, ALMOST HALF WAY! We at the library understand that money is tight for everyone this year. We hope that finances will be better for everyone soon. Meanwhile, remember the libraries in your planned giving, so we can continue bringing the best in information, media, programs and services to the fine residents of Franklin County.

Volunteers Needed!

This spring Franklin County Library System needs a number of volunteers to assist with a variety of special tasks in support local library and county-wide initiatives. Grove Family Library needs people to help with copying, stuffing, canvassing communities, making phone calls, and brainstorming new ideas. Coyle Free Library needs community members to serve on its Building Program Committee and Steeering Committe for a future capital campaign. Both Grove and Coyle need volunteers to help with the Spring House Tour on June 1.

The Library System needs volunteers to do behind-the-scenes preparation for reading programs, for children, teens, and adults, and to sort through book donations and plan a major book sale. We also need community respresentation on various committees.

Please contact Jill Snyder at 264-9863 or Erica Pryor at 709-0282 x209 for ideas of how your talents can be best utilized and to sign up as a volunteer, whether short-term or long-term.

All libraries can use volunteers to assist with special projects and weekly routines. So if you care, and have time to give, call today. We can use your help in a community close to you.

Expanded Hours at Grove Family Library, March 3

We have been listening to you! Beginning Monday, March 3, Grove Family Library will be opening its doors at 9:00 a.m. The new schedule is Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 9:00-8:00, Wednesday and Friay 9:00-6:00, and Saturday 9:00-4:00. The increased hours were enabled by the 2008 increase in county library tax. Thank you, taxpayers! Thank you, County Commisioners!