Many thanks to all of you who have responded to FOL's membership drive. Many of you gave donations along with your membership dues. We are so appreciative of your support and of your generosity. The drive is continuing, and we hope if you haven't yet joined, you will. Our one aim is to support the library in every way possible and to meet the needs that can be covered by no other source of income.

Our first semi-annual book sale will start Monday, April 28 and continue through Saturday, May 3. Books will be located in both the Dova Partridge Annex and in front of the library. Many of you already know what a bargain our books are and how varied our selection is. Where else can you pick up paperbacks for 25 cents and hardbacks, many best sellers, for $1? This is the ideal time to stock up for your summer reading or your everyday pleasure. We usually have books in every genre- cookbooks, weight loss, religion, philosophy, romance, mysteries, best sellers, children's from easy readers through middle school, Christian, westerns, scientific, and everything in between. We truly appreciate all of you who have donated boxes and boxes and bags and bags of books for this sale. And it's not too late to bring more books in. We have to smile when people buy lots of books, read them, and then donate them back to us to sell again. (Does that count as doubledipping?)

Now for one more appeal. Our core group of FOL members who meet once a month to plan FOL's activities needs some fresh minds. If you have time that you could give us and become an active member of the group, we would really be grateful. We realize that our afternoon meetings (the next is Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m.) may not be a convenient time for many of you who work. We are willing to change these meetings to an evening hour to accommodate you and your working schedule. Several of you have indicated on the form you filled out when you joined that you are willing to help. We will be contacting you to see if a change of meeting hour or day would permit you to attend. Or please call the library and give your name as a possible attendee and someone will contact you. Many of us who do attend the meetings have been doing so for at least ten years. We aren't planning to drop out because we love the library. We'd just like to have more input and ideas from other members whose bulbs may be burning brighter than ours. I know, I know, everyone is SO busy!

Watch for notices on the Summer Reading Program which will start next month. The new books FOL purchased are coming in, and the program will offer entertain-ment, prizes, and the love of reading to all the kids in the county.

Here's a list of new FOL members. Individual: Pat Crain, Margaret Elam, Jean Gale, Venita D. Garnett, Mamie L. Garnett, Paulette L. George, Kay Heard, Jim Heard, Betty I. Holloway, Linda P. Jones, Lou Lee, Ruth Poland, John (Dusty) Rhodes, Tom L. Schulte, Dorothy W. Scott, Marie Smalley, Norman Waters. Family: Barbara and Frank Doyle, Mr.and Mrs. Franklin H. Gould, Willie J. Harris and Family, Alvin and Nobie Dean Hawes, Robert V. Held, Mr.and Mrs. Scott James, Sally and John C. Kennedy, Evelyn and Orion Kujala, Rubye and Welcome Mason, Patricia and Dwain Moss, Mickey and Murray Norman, David and Anne Price.

Business ($40): Scott's Augusta Chiller Service and Steven and Beth Dawkins' Southern Cleaning Products. Organization ($20): Pine Needle Garden Club, Norma McKinney, President. Patron ($50): Mr. and Mrs. Randall Edmunds, Geneva M. Leverett, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wilgus. SPONSOR ($100): Dr. and Mrs. Gene Dickinson Lifetime ($150): Deborah M. Dent, Helene R. Rhodes.