Make new friends, but keep the old…one is silver and the other gold.

That’s the only line I remember from a song I learned as a child at summer camp. Lately it could be the Foundation’s theme song. We’ve been promoting The Leon Levine Foundation matching grant in the Library branches and throughout the community, which has been really fun. The campaign celebrates the Library love we already share, and introduces financial support of the Library as an accessible and meaningful way to show it. We’re meeting new friends through old friends, and we’ve already raised over $20,000 toward the $100,000 challenge.

We’re also planning this year’s literary weekend. A diverse lineup of authors will celebrate libraries and literacy at Verse & Vino, and the EpicFest program is quickly filling. New this year we’ll add an EpicFest evening event for teens at the new Google Fiber building, and we anticipate sellout crowds all weekend. Again, new friends joining old friends around a common love of reading and community.

There’s more happening, of course – the Friends’ Council has been spreading Library love through Little Free Libraries, planning the Rock & Read 5K, and there’s never a shortage of new ideas and opportunities. But one thing is consistent – the Library touches every part of the community, and our ever-expanding family of supporters comes from every corner.

We welcome and thank each one of you - new and old - for your friendship and investment in your Library.