Public comes through with yearbook donations
By Lynn Tharan A huge thank you to all who have searched shelves, attics and boxes and brought us different high school yearbooks for the Pennsylvania Room. We’re ecstatic and have added them to our collection for our patrons and researchers to use. We’re still short many years, so anyone who is just now reading this and think you may have some old yearbooks from area high schools, please consider donating them to the library. We will give them a good home. As many of you know, we are sponsors of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library along with the Community Foundation of Fayette County. This is the program that brings free books each month to children under the age of five. Each month a high-quality, hardcover book is sent to the child at his or her home address. There are no restrictions other than the child must reside in either the Uniontown or Laurel Highlands school districts.
To register a child, stop in and fill out a registration form at the library. The program asks that you promise when each book arrives in the mail, you will turn off the television and sit with your child and read the book to them – that’s all. You get to spend quality time with your child sharing a delightful book. Anyone with questions may call me at 724-437-1165.
If you registered your child for the program in the past and are no longer receiving books, it might be due to an address change. If you’ve moved, you’ll need to contact us at the library and give us the new address. We will change it in the database so your child can continue to receive books each month.
A group of Imagination Library Board members will be manning a table at the Family Fun Fest in the 4-H Building at the Fairgrounds on Saturday. Bring your child between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. for a day of games, giveaways and a visit with Mr. McFeeley from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.
You can become a sponsor for a child to receive a year of free books with a donation of $30 to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Ask at the library how you can help. All donations are used strictly for the cost of the books and postage.
Summer Reading has begun here at library. Children may register to participate in an amazing summer of free reading adventures, crafts, programs and prizes. Miss Dianne and Miss Kristi have brought together a wonderful list of fun and exciting things to do.
Thursday at 2:30, Dennis Bowman and his friend “Chester Drawers” will visit and talk with all the children who come to the meeting rooms on the second floor of the library.
Many will recognize Dennis as the KDKA-TV meteorologist.
It’s a free program, so come for the fun.
Come see us in the library, sign up your child for the Imagination Library, register your child for Summer Reading, or donate those old or newer yearbooks to the PA Room.
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books…. Children learn to read being in the presence of books.”
– Horace Mann
Lynne E. Tharan is the director of the Uniontown Public Library, 24 Jefferson St., Uniontown. Phone 724-437-1165