Whitewood Public Library
1201 Ash
Street
Whitewood,
SD 5773
Karren
Timmermans
20 December 2019
Executive
Director
The
Pilcrow Foundation
343
Washington Avenue
Cottage
Grove, OR 97424
Dear
Karren,
Thank
you, for your recent donation of the
Children’s Book Project to the Whitewood Public Library.
Because of your generous donation of $800,
along with our community funds of $400, the combined $1200 was a huge boost to
our children’s shelves. Also your
addition of 22 science books in our nonfiction section was a wonderful surprise.
Our Chamber of Commerce matched what our Friends of the Library earned at a
sale during our community’s all city rummage day. The Gutknecht family and Tom Parquet topped off our community commitment.
Your
donation of books have been cataloged
and were spotlighted during ‘A Grateful Event’ at our library. Grateful to the Pilcrow Foundation for the support and wanted to shout it out to
our community. We had volunteers, who helped
set up for the event and brought baked goods.
The volunteers were impressed with the interesting selection and the
amount of books received from the grant.
While setting up the displays, they were showing each other the books
and commenting on the educational value for our children.
The
Books were left on display for the rest of the week then placed on a ‘New’
shelf. From there, we were easily able
to continue our promotion about the project and the books individually. Additionally in order to have a piece of fruit pizza that Mary May made for an after school
treat. The children were to read to themselves or listen to a story. Fox and the Bike Ride by Corey Tabor, with
his specially built bike was a conversation starter!
This
Grateful Event was the biggest advertised event we have ever had. My Work Experience participant and I made
invitations and flyers. The Twin Country
Radio station out of Belle Fourche put out the times and also told the whole
story during ‘Whitewood News’ slot by our local reporter, Marla Loken. Our town newsletter, putting up sandwich boards in the street and
newspaper story were also part of the advertising plan.
Our
one traffic light (for the train) community certainly gained with the help of
Pilcrow Foundation’s Children’s Book Project.
We greatly appreciate your support to our library.
With
Many Thanks
Rea
Weyrich
Director
Whitewood
Public Library
