Books and Buns as The Story Unfolds

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The community is invited to “Books and Buns,” a lasagna dinner to benefit the Forest Grove City Library, on Thursday, October 27, 2011, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.  The event is sponsored by the Forest Grove Library Foundation and Maggie’s Buns, who is donating all the food for the fundraiser, and will be held at the United Church of Christ, 2032 College Way, Forest Grove.  Tickets are available at the Library and cost $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.

The Forest Grove Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides support to the Forest Grove City Library through the procurement of private funds. Established in 2000, the Foundation helps to provide an atmosphere of excellence for the library by enhancing the facility and adding to the variety and quality of services and programs offered.

Philanthropy created the library in Forest Grove. In the early 20th Century, Adeline Rogers, having grown up in Vermont and traveling extensively in Europe, Hong Kong and Mexico, settled in Forest Grove. In 1909, she donated property to the City which became a reading room open to the public — a place to foster culture and life-long learning. The Rogers City Library remained at 21st and College Way until 1978, when the City built a new library on Pacific Avenue between Ash and Birch streets.

The public/private partnership continued in 1998 with the passage by voters of a $2.2 million bond measure to expand the facility. In 2000, community leaders and library supporters formed the Forest Grove Library Foundation. The first goal of the Foundation was to fund the remodel of the original portion of the building to coordinate its use better with the newer portion. That $1.3 million fundraising goal was reached in 2006 as the community joined the Foundation to “Help Write the Next Chapter.”

Now the Foundation is engaged in a project to raise $250,000 for furniture, art and signage as “The Story Unfolds” in their second campaign.  The Foundation has applied and received grants from Juan Young Trust for $5,000 and Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) for $10,000. The OCF commitment is a matching grant that will be received only when all fundraising is complete.  Information about the Library Foundation and their current campaign can be found at www.fglf.org.

Please join the Library Foundation with Books and Buns as “The Story Unfolds”.