Book sale aids library move fund (3 June 2006)
By JOE RUIZ
jruiz@sastandardtimes.com or 659-8254
Tina Wilson was on a mission.
The San Angeloan walked the 13 aisles of books at the Tom Green County's Friends of the Library preview book sale Friday evening looking for children's books, romance novels and others in between.
She had to be home by 7 p.m.
''We're a household of readers. My children and I read a lot,'' Wilson said. ''I've read to my children every night since the day they were born.''
Wilson is the mother of a 10-year-old and a 2-year-old.
The expansive space of the San Angelo Convention Center is being used for the first time for the book sale. Last year, the sale was held in the Robert E. Lee Middle School cafeteria.
The sale, which continues through Monday, benefits the Beacon to the Future fund, to help offset the costs associated with the hoped-for move of the Tom Green County Public Library.
The old space was ''a third or a quarter'' of the convention center's space, said Kay Holland, one of the Friends of the Library's board members.
Items at the sale included biographies of Robert F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro, high school yearbooks from the 1970s, an 8mm movie projector, records and magazines.
Holland said this year's sale was ''by far'' the largest in its history. The amount of items donated was so large, it required 1,400 banana boxes to store and move.
The Friends of the Library were helped by a group of volunteers from Goodfellow Air Force Base who moved the boxes from their temporary home in the basement of the main library to the convention center.
Friday's sale was technically a preview sale, but anybody who joined the Friends of the Library at the door for a fee of $10 was able to walk in and purchase.
While Wilson's time at the sale Friday was shortened by her own deadline, she still walked away with 42 books. And that was at 6:29 p.m.
''I had to take the time out to swing by and grab the books I could,'' Wilson said.
jruiz@sastandardtimes.com or 659-8254
Tina Wilson was on a mission.
The San Angeloan walked the 13 aisles of books at the Tom Green County's Friends of the Library preview book sale Friday evening looking for children's books, romance novels and others in between.
She had to be home by 7 p.m.
''We're a household of readers. My children and I read a lot,'' Wilson said. ''I've read to my children every night since the day they were born.''
Wilson is the mother of a 10-year-old and a 2-year-old.
The expansive space of the San Angelo Convention Center is being used for the first time for the book sale. Last year, the sale was held in the Robert E. Lee Middle School cafeteria.
The sale, which continues through Monday, benefits the Beacon to the Future fund, to help offset the costs associated with the hoped-for move of the Tom Green County Public Library.
The old space was ''a third or a quarter'' of the convention center's space, said Kay Holland, one of the Friends of the Library's board members.
Items at the sale included biographies of Robert F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro, high school yearbooks from the 1970s, an 8mm movie projector, records and magazines.
Holland said this year's sale was ''by far'' the largest in its history. The amount of items donated was so large, it required 1,400 banana boxes to store and move.
The Friends of the Library were helped by a group of volunteers from Goodfellow Air Force Base who moved the boxes from their temporary home in the basement of the main library to the convention center.
Friday's sale was technically a preview sale, but anybody who joined the Friends of the Library at the door for a fee of $10 was able to walk in and purchase.
While Wilson's time at the sale Friday was shortened by her own deadline, she still walked away with 42 books. And that was at 6:29 p.m.
''I had to take the time out to swing by and grab the books I could,'' Wilson said.
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