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The Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library (FOL) will offer a
spring bargain book sale Saturday, March 27, at the Hermosa
public library, 550 Pier Ave. Event opens at 10 a.m.
Bargain prices will prevail, according to FOL president Joan
Greenwald. Prices are set at 50 cents for hardback volumes and 25
cents for paperbacks. A special selection will command a slightly
higher price, according to Jack Belasco, sale chairman.
Book donations may be taken 1o the library.
Proceeds from all FOL events are used to buy extra materials
for the library. The most recent gift was a selection of large print
Information, 379-8475.
Medal of Valor Week
The Hermosa Beach City Council has proclaimed Monday,
March 29th, through Friday, April 2nd. "Medal of Valor Waal.»
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Local happenings
BY DAVID ASPER JOHNSON
FROM THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
A newsy letter this week from the Hermosa Beach
Friends of the Library - their March report.
Heading the list is the spring book sale, set for
10 a.m. Saturday, March 27th, in front of the Hermosa
Library.
Club members tells us that "despite soaring prices
on everything else, HB FofL will hold the line. Prices
again will be set at 50 cents for hardbacks, 25 cents for
paperbacks, higher prices for a selected few."
On a sadder note, the news that Hermosa Beach
Librarian Louise Mazerov's book budget for the
fiscal year has been exhausted. So, contributions to
the library through the Friends of the Library are
much appreciated.
But, folks still keep coming to the local library.
February usage of the Hermosa Library was higher
than during the same month last year. Circulation
was "700 higher" this year during February than
during the same month in 1981 and reference uses
alone totalled 8,000."
Our librarian attributes the increased volume 'to a
big surge in student use of reference material." There
is a heavier homework load, she suggests.
There appears to be a local impact on television
viewing. The local library had a run on materials
dealing with medieval seers after the TV showing of
"Nostradamus" and there were many requests for
works of Evelyn Waugh attributed to the
"Brideshead Revisited" program.
ROTARIANS OFF TO MANHATTAN AGAIN
Hermosa Rotarians are off to Manhattan Beach
Thursday, AprilIst, for a meeting with
Redondo-Riviera Rotarians to hear John Van de
Kamp, county district attorney and would-be state
attorney general. So, there will be no Hermosa
Rotarian meeting Tuesday, March 30th.
Incidentally, the local Hermosa Rotarians did
pretty well in their district governor's annual bowling
tournament last week, coming in second.
"DETENTE IN THE DESERT"
Only public officials would dash out to Palm
Springs to discuss such exciting things as garbage.
But, then the "garbage crisis" is such an important
issue the SouthernCalifornia Associationof
Governments (SCAG) should get a good crowd for its
April annual general assembly.
SCAG is calling its desert gathering a "Detente in
the Desert."
No doubt they'll have the "burn it" folks on one
side and the "dump it in the ocean" folks on the
other. Desert war games are always popular, even for
city officials.
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