Sand lake Shuffle Needs Everyone's Help On Behalf Of Our Local Cancer Patients!

Sand Lake Shuffle 19th Season Begins!

It's time to begin planning for another successful local cancer fund raising event! This year's Sand Lake Shuffle (Sand Lake, Voyageur's Resort) Old Highay 53, Britt By Pass is scheduled for August 13/14. Last year, despite the economic problems, the Shuffle raised $48,400 that was disbursed to the CarePartners committee(provides money locally to those stricken with cancer and their families, The Liz Prebich Breast Cancer Center, Virginia, Mn., St. Mary's Breast Center, Duluth and St. Luke's Whiteside Research, Duluth for cancer research and treatment. The SLS committee tries to be fair and to provide for our local people's needs. Planning has begun and we ask that readers consider a team to walk around the beautiful Sand Lake track or to purchase our delicious $6 spaghetti dinner. Donations are always welcome and family and business fund raisers are becoming more popular. It is not too early to start planning and some of our members began last night. Questions? Ideas? Suggestions? lundgren65@yahoo.com ask for Holly and come for a fun evening of music, pizza, spaghetti, and laughter on Aug. 13/14.
We are trying to put the "fun" into our local fund raising with an emphasis on the teams.

Library Fun!

And what a week it will be!
Last week's Brown Bag Lunch on Planning Your Year-Round Garden was a great success with over 30 attendees! Thanks for your help in spreading the word!

NEXT WEEK: NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
Monday, April 12 – One Book, One Community Book Discussion, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver, starting at noon
Tuesday, April 13 – Celebrate National Library Week & Meet the Friends with cookies & juice at the library!, noon to 2:00
Thursday, April 15 – Garden Series #2 Brown Bag: Minimum Maintenance Container Gardening!, starting at noon

Flyers are attached for each of these events. Ambassadors: Please forward, print and post, as appropriate!
Technical note: The flyers are "downsized" to accommodate our FRIENDS with dial-up Internet service. Email me if you're having trouble printing full-size poster quality, and I will send you a larger pdf file.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
The next meeting of the FRIENDS will be Tuesday, April 20, 4:00 p.m. in the Library Auditorium
Come join us as we talk about what the FRIENDS can do to help the library keep our kids reading all summer long!

Tuesday, April 20, 6:00 p.m., One Book, One Community Book Discussion, Natural Harvest Food Coop, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
Thursday, April 22, 12:00–1:00 p.m., Garden Series #3 Brown Bag: Fragrant Language of Herbs!

Visit the Library Calendar for a complete list of upcoming events at the library!

Also in the community:
Woodcut Artist and Children's Book Author Betsy Bowen to Exhibit April 12-28
Special Events, Thursday, April 15 (Exhibit flyer)

--Jennifer Armstrong
FRIENDS of the Virginia Public Library
218-865-0112

Libraries and literacy are essential!

Sand Lake Shuffle 2010 Local Cancer Fundraiser

Iron Range Veterans Memorial Announces Goodsearch Online Fundraiser

Newsletter, Blog, & Email:
$5,000 GoodSearch Giveaway - Three Days Only
We have something new and exciting we'd like to share with you! It's the new IRVM - Iron Range Veterans Memorial toolbar - once added to IE or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to IRVM - Iron Range Veterans Memorial - at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar provides coupons and deals as well!). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated to IRVM - Iron Range Veterans Memorial. http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/irvm-iron-range-veterans-memorial
The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference!

Get the toolbar NOW! http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/irvm-iron-range-veterans-memorial

New Announcement:

GoodSearch will donate a $1 for every toolbar that is downloaded between April 6th at 9am EST and April 9th at 9am EST up to $5,000!! Please download the toolbar right now.

Our new (Iron Range Veterans Memorial) toolbar is free to download and allows you to raise money for our cause every time you search or shop online! Once added to IE or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to (Iron Range Veterans Memorial)- at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar provides coupons and deals as well!). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated to (Iron Range Veterans Memorial) (URL)

Please hurry and do this now so that we can earn the $1 bonus per toolbar!

And, please pass this along to all of your friends. The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference for our cause!

Get the toolbar NOW! (URL)

Put on your facebook page:Facebook
GoodSearch will donate $1 for every toolbar that is downloaded today up to $5,000! Download it here and every time you shop at one of more than 1,300 participating stores, a percentage of your purchase will automatically go to our cause! (URL).

Put on your Twitter page: Twitter
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