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Sunrise Rotary presents $30,500 check to Friends of the Library

Posted on by Susan Steger

Sunrise Rotary
Press Release
Submitted by Peggy Albrecht
September 14, 2016 11:34 a.m.

Rotarians Stan Fishburn and Christal Fish, present Bill Flynn, past president of FOL and Rotarian Cindy Jackson.
Rotarians Stan Fishburn, Christa Fish, and Cindy Jackson present Bill Flynn, past president of FOL a check for $30,500 to support Library’s Technology Room.

The Rotary Club of Amelia Island Sunrise presented a check for $30,500 to the Friends of the Fernandina Beach Library (FOL). This represented proceeds from the club’s fourth annual wine and food tasting event that is held in March of each year.The donation will be used to further enhance the library’s technology center and to
improve the experience of library visitors of all ages.

The Rotary Clubof Amelia Island Sunrise has now donated over $80,000 to various charitable organizations from its wine and food tasting fundraiser. Activities and planning for the March 2017 event are well underway. The Rotary club meets at 7:30 a.m. on
Fridays at the Fernandina Beach Golf Club.

 

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Steven, Jenny & Tristny Nguyen spending time with technology in the Children’s Room of the Fernandina Beach Branch Library.

 

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Wilma Allen
Wilma Allen(@wilmaa65gmail-com)
7 years ago
#47913

Fantastic effort from the Sunrise Rotary! Thank you from a big reader and very frequent library user.

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Dave Lott
Dave Lott(@dave-l)
7 years ago
#47914

What an amazing gift to the community from the Sunrise Rotary group. It is the efforts of groups like this to a wide variety of community needs that make this such a giving, positive and vibrant community.

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