Congratulations to all the lucky winners of our basket raffle last month. David Wabs, Mary
Ann Clements, Deb Petronis, Nancy Ellis, Mary Pellack, and Florence Neild each won one of the
six fabulous baskets, worth more than $475 and filled with merchandise, gift cards, dinners,
bowling parties, golf outings, you name it, from our generous local businesses. We know the
winners and their families are happy they bought a ticket, so keep your fingers crossed for next
year when we do it again and maybe you’ll have one of the winning tickets. We broke a record
this year by selling more than 1550 tickets, our best year ever, thanks to everyone who bought
and sold them. Remember that all Friends activities and fundraiser benefit the Pennsauken Free
Public Library.
In the meantime, there’ll be a LOT going on at the library on December 9 th . While one of the
library’s interesting programs is taking place, the Friends will be simultaneously hosting both a
bake sale in the lobby (just in time for holiday eating) and a pop-up book and media sale in the
reference section. Our bake sale runs from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. (or earlier if we run out of baked
goods), and the pop-up from 10:30 – 2:30. We’ll feature a wonderful assortment of holiday-
themed books for everyone in the family, seasonal-themed music CDs and movies, and
children’s books in excellent condition suitable for inexpensive stocking stuffers or gifts. You’ll
also be able to browse through a great assortment of cards, gift wraps, toys, and calendars — all
FREE for the taking, first come, first served. We’ve added a new bin in the short hallway next to
the Food Bank bins just for donations of holiday-related books, media, greeting cards, gift wrap,
calendars, notepads, etc. — so many of the things we all get in the mail these days that we never
asked for. Here’s your opportunity to drop yours in the bin so the Friends can add them to our
“freebies” table on the 9 th for someone else to use.
Speaking of the bake sale, we hope you’ll plan to help us stock our tables on the 9 th by baking
some cookies, brownies, pies, cupcakes, cakes, or your specialty. Bring them to the library on the
day of the sale or drop them off the day before. Thanks in advance for helping us make this a
great and delicious sale!
For all our chair yoga and other wellness program aficionados who finished up our recent
classes, take heart: we’ll be scheduling more beginning next year because we know how much
everyone enjoys them. We’re also planning another plant swap and spring fundraiser coming up
as well as some new activity ideas still in the planning stages. If you’d like to add your
suggestions to help us plan, join us for a Friends meeting next month. Just call us at 856-665-
5959, ext.7 and leave a message for meeting information.
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The Friends wish everyone happy and healthy holidays, and we thank everyone who helped
make our events successful.