Thank you from Friends of the Library

The 2009 book sale was a greater success than 2008. We are amazed, grateful and thankful for this outcome. Amazed because, in this economically stressed time, the interest and support stayed so very high. We are grateful because this activity will continue to benefit our library’s programs. Our thanks go to the many participants in the event. Thanks to the many volunteers for their inexhaustible efforts.

With a combined total of 60,000 books and other items to muster for the sale, the workload was huge. We thank all of those people who contributed books and other items for the sale. We certainly want to thank the people who purchased the books, from the casual shopper who found an item they liked and bought a few books to the resellers that bought boxes of books, these people were the linchpin of the successful sale.

During the sale, the public made anonymous contributions to the S.O.S. Food Bank totaling $300. In all, it was a wonderful demonstration of the public esteem for the library facilities and services and their empathy toward others.

We wish to offer a special thanks to the following local enterprises:

• H-E-B for contributing food and storage boxes for the books

• Nevitts Moving and Storage for vans to move the books to the Civic Center

• AAA Mini Storage for the use of a van.

• The Herald Zeitung, KGNB and KNBT for advertising the event

• Lester Stockhorst of “Print-it” for printing

• Collectively for the “Door Prizes”, we thank Adobe Restaurant, Blumen Meister, Fork & Spoon, Granzin’s Bar-B-Que, Jason’s Deli, Olive Garden and Petals-to-Go

• Compass Recycling for the disposition of unsold books

• The Comal County Sheriff’s Dept. for the “Inmate Work Program” volunteers who loaded and unloaded boxes of books from the warehouse to the sale site

• The Staff of the Civic Center for their help, as always.

The mission of the “Friends of the Library” organization is to heighten the communities’ awareness of the library and it’s many services. This annual event is an extension of the Library Book Store. The proceeds of the store and the annual sale enable the library to supplement and expand their programs.



Nancy Ament, Janet Brandt,

Sherry Koerth and Ruth Wendel

Book Sale Co-Chairs



Smith voted for health insurance lobby, not his constituents

Rep. Lamar Smith failure to support health reform has demonstrated that he is more interested in the needs of the health insurance lobby that his constituents.

The House bill was supported by the physicians, nurses, and advocates for the elder (AMA, ANA and AARP), but Smith chose to align himself with the ideologues and insurance lobby.

Rep. Smith, please do the right thing for the majority of Texans and vote for the final bill after Senate approval.

William Tudor RN

Spring Branch

Confused about motives of sticker thief

To the person that took the Obama sticker off my car when I was parked in New Braunfels last week: I have to say that it was really not necessary. If you left a note with your address, I could have gotten you your own and then we both could have one.

There may be some out there who think that the removal of the sticker was really an act of theft / destruction by an anti-Obama individual. As the anti-Obama group consistently insists that they are for personal liberty, freedom of speech and individual / property rights, I don’t see how that could happen. Such an action would be a violation of my property rights and my right of free speech. This would make the sticker removal a blatant display of childish hypocrisy and I have too much respect for the desire of the anti-Obama crowd to engage in only honorable dissent to make that accusation.

Larry Mooney

Cibolo

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