April 2024 Volunteer of the Month When you join FOL, you receive a thank you note hand-written by our April Volunteer of the Month – Sara Hill. Sara writes all of FOL’s thank you notes by hand to new members every month as they join. She was on the FOL Board for several years and served as the liaison with Givens Highland Farms. Sara was a clinical social worker…
Celebrating National Poetry Month and the Dark City Poets The Dark City Poets Society (DCPS) had the honor of being highlighted in the April issue of Our State magazine! So fitting for National Poetry Month. The DCPS has been working with Our State magazine over the past year to create this beautiful four-page article that…
WNC Repair Café Success The Black Mountain Library hosted its first-ever WNC Repair Café Sewing & Mending event on March 14. Wow and Thank You! We had a great turnout from community volunteers and participants. As the doors opened, our first community members arrived with items for repair and the parking lot was full to…
March 2024 Volunteer of the Month We are very grateful to have Judi Repman as our FoL Secretary. She is a go-getter and pitches in wherever there is a need. In addition to the Secretary duties, Judi disseminates publicity about upcoming Friends’ activities to a variety of online sources, helps with Friends’ book sales and…
FOL Book Store News & Notes Have you visited the FOL Store in the Black Mountain Library lately? Or browsed for books on our Etsy sites – FOL Black Mountain and Black Mountain Reads? It is so easy to support your local library through a purchase of a unique book, gift basket, puzzle, tote bag…
First Sowing Circle Program of the Season! Our first Sowing Circle program will take place on Friday, March 8 and is truly a program for everyone. We’ll look at everything from ways to “warm up,” accessible garden choices including raised beds and containers and tool choices. We hope you will be able to join us…
February Volunteer of the Month Ron Marcello grew up in northern New Jersey, spent a short time as a hippie in California, and settled in Ohio joining the fire department there in 1975. He retired from the fire department in 2002 at the rank of Captain. During his time in Dayton, he met and married…
January Volunteers of the Month Girl Scouts save the backs of Friends of the Library members (literally!) every time we have a book sale. What would we do without them? That’s why the Girl Scouts of Troop 2498 are Volunteers of the Month for January. Each week, FOL members store boxes of books in the…
2024 Friends of the Black Mountain Library Board Our 2024 FOL Board wishes you a most joyous holiday season! We look forward to serving the library and our community in the coming year.
Book Sale Success Well, another successful holiday sale is in the books! Many thanks to our volunteers as well as to our community of readers and shoppers. It was worth it to see so many books go to good homes! The dreary weather did not deter our dedicated readers and repeat buyers who were ready…