5th Grade Donates Sweepstakes Books!

We're happy to report that Mrs. Dunsterville's 5th grade class at the Amargosa School were the winners of several boxes of books, courtesy of Scholastic's Whoopi! We're Reading! Sweepstakes. We're even happier to report that they kindly donated 200 of these books to our library! The books are currently being processed, and will soon be on the shelves for everyone in the community to enjoy.

Here are the boxes before we opened them.

And here we are opening the boxes!

Gardening in Amargosa

This past Wednesday, March 12, we were privileged to have Jan Cameron, chair of the Library Board and avid gardener, present a free public program on "Gardening in Amargosa." 21 people attended and learned tips and tricks for growing vegetables here in our desert climate. I've heard nothing but positive things about the program, and I really appreciate Jan's willingness to come and share this information.

Advocacy Training in Salt Lake City

As a part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant that we've been awarded, I'll be traveling to Salt Lake City on March 12-15 for training. The focus will be on advocacy -- showing the library's worth to the community and encouraging people to support it.

I really feel that our community's support for the library is outstanding. But I'm still looking forward to getting new ideas from this training.

I'm also excited for the rest of the grant! We're going to be able to replace at least some of the public computers, which are aging. I think this will be a great benefit.