Measuring the growth
August 6, 2009Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words!
How progress toward our $3 million fundraising goal is stacking up
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- Highsmith Catalog Art
- More about our door!
- A place for everything…and everything in its place
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- Sequestered nooks everywhere you look
- To achieve you must believe. Believe in your library.
- We grew (in more ways than one)!
- The joy of receiving a handwritten thank you!
- Sandhill cranes added to Batterman Children’s Library entry
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