On March 21st, The Moses Lake Public Library Foundation hosted a reception celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the dedication of the public library building, which took place March 22, 1965.  The MLPLF board thanks  the Friends of the Library, the library staff and volunteers, and library patrons who provided their time, expertise, money, decorations and refreshments to help us honor community members and donors to the foundation.  Special thanks to Mayor Dick Deane for speaking and  Michaelle Boetger, Bill Ecret at KBSN, iFiberOne News,CBH, Lindsey Fuhrman, Safeway, Grocery Outlet, and Dollar Up Store for their contributions of goods and services.  Over 100 hundred people signed our guest book and over 500 people visited the library on the day of the reception.   We are grateful to all who support remodeling and expanding our public library.

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The Soroptimist International of Moses Lake presented awards to two women and donated to the Moses Lake Public Library Foundation.

The group met at the Porterhouse restaurant on Tuesday night to present the awards.

Hilda Alvarado received the Live Your Dream Award for overcoming challenges to continue her education with Big Bend Community College. She received $3,000 as part of the award.

The Live Your Dreams Award is to assist women, who provide the primary source of financial support for their families, by giving them the resources to continue their education, according to the Soroptimists.

Moses Lake High School senior Casci Carpenter received the Violet Richardson award for her work with Youth Outdoors Unlimited. The Soroptimists donated $200 to the group on behalf of Carpenter and she received a $300 award.

The Youth Outdoors Unlimited organization helps facilitate outdoor recreation for disadvantaged youth.

The Violet Richardson award is for young women volunteering in their communities and schools.

“The award is given to young women whose activities make the community and world a better place,” stated a Soroptimist representative.

The Soroptimists donated $1,000 to the Moses Lake Public Library Foundation to help with the group’s efforts to raise funds to expand the library to meet public demand.

By Bill Stevenson, iFiber One News, February 18, 2015

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The Moses Lake Public Library Foundation is pleased to honor Alice Harwood who served the community in many ways, but most memorably as an early member of the Board of Trustees of the North Central Regional Library from 1970 to 1982 following Moses Lake resident Bryan Miller, who was chair of the first seven member NCRL board. She served two six year terms on the board representing the Moses Lake District.

Mrs. Harwood, an avid reader, not only sat on the NCRL board, but served her community in other ways. She and her husband Eugene began farming in the Moses Lake area in 1949. She knew it as a new, raw, hot, and dry, but fast- growing community full of opportunity where everyone worked to help themselves and each other. She was superintendent of the Arts and Crafts Building at the Grant County Fair for years and was also a member of Eastern Star and the O’Sullivan Grange. The Harwoods raised two daughters, one of whom has become a librarian. Her influence continues to be felt as the foundation moves toward expanding and remodeling the city library supported by this $10,000.00 donation in her name.

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The Moses Lake Library, Foundation and the community lost a good friend July 8 with the passing of Glenna J. Bingham, 84.

Glenna had lived in Moses Lake since she was 11 years old.  She started volunteering at the library in 1955 and was hired a year later as a full time clerk.  She worked there for the next 35 years, serving as the Children’s Librarian and faithful guardian of the books.  Some of her favorite memories were the summer reading programs and Saturday story hours.

Seeing the need to remodel and expand her beloved library Glenna was one of the founders of the Moses Lake Public Library Foundation.  She was also active in the ML Women’s Club, Soroptomists, Community Concerts, Allied Arts and was a member of Our Lady of Fatima  Catholic Church.

She was an amazing person and will always be remembered by many of us as our favorite “Library Lady.”

If desired, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the foundation.

Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held at 10:30am on Tue., July 15 with Memorial Mass of Christian Burial celebrated at 11am at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, 200 N. Dale Rd. here in ML.

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The MLPLF is asking for submissions to complete this project, you can write a story, draw a picture, take a photo, even create a poem for possible inclusion in the book.

Tell us what the library means to you. What memories of the library do you have? How often do you come to the library? What was the most memorable book you borrowed from the library? When did you start coming to the library? What library activities have you participated in?

Submissions of stories and poems should be no more than two typed pages, single spaced, with 1-inch margins and should be emailed to info@mlplf.org. Pictures and photos can also be emailed or dropped off at the Moses Lake Public Library.

All submissions for the Anthology book are due Oct. 31 August 15, 2014. All entries become the property of the Moses Lake Public Library Foundation.

The completed Anthology will be sold to raise money to support the Moses Lake Public Library Foundation as it seeks to expand and remodel the present library.
The Moses Lake Public Library Foundation (MLPLF) is a group of citizens from all walks of life working together to improve the public library in Moses Lake. While the foundation works closely with the North Central Regional Library District, which manages the library and its collections, and the City of Moses Lake, which owns the building, the foundation is independent of those organizations.

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