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- 2 BOOK SALE As you will see in the attached Minutes of the March 27th Meeting, the 1996 book sale will be held on Saturday, June 22nd and Sunday, June 23rd in the Library basement. Wanda Osborne, who is chairing the book sale committee, has indicated that sorting will begin in May. Are you a volunteer who will be participating in this, the major fund raising event of our library year? If you are not, but would like to help with this very worthwhile and important activity, please phone Pat Scrivener at 922-2298. Thanks. SIGNS OF SPRING (From "The Garden" bv Vita Sackville-Westt And then with thaw comes up the sudden rush Of growth that waited only on this hour On this disclosure of the life beneath As the slow secret movement in the life Of men and nations in their multitude Blanketed by oppression, poverty, And lack of light, - oh mostly lack of light So on a sudden with the genial sun The aspiration of the myriad crowd Of pushing leaves and buds within their sheath Leaps with new motive in a long prepared Attack to pierce the slowly softening earth A gentle mutiny; a pretty change; Haste without violence; and then a flower More lovely than mankind has ever brought to birth. Here leap the leaves, where none before were seen; Swords of narcissus and of daffodil, A sheaf of blades, too flexible, too green (It seems) to thrust their points; yet they appear From nowhere in a night and with the mom are here. And these are signs of spring, that spurious spring That comes in February to astound And, against reason, make our hearts believe "HEROES FOR TODAY" - A COMPILATION BY THE READER'S DIGEST (The following are two excerpts out of four which were included in the compilation) Every community has its own examples of courage, kindness and decency. 1. The Gift of Reading: In 1989 nurse Kathy Knowles and her three small children followed her husband, John, an accountant, to a four-year posting in Accra, Ghana. In Accra, a local labourer's wage averages less than $70 a month, and "the idea of a story book is beyond what many can imagine," says Knowles. She began lending her children's books to a small circle of their neighbourhood chums "to give them a sense of owning their own book, if only for a while." They were delighted and told friends. The friends told friends. Gradually, informally, a library developed at their home on Osu Avenue. From baskets of books dotting the backyard one afternoon a week, proceedings were moved to the Knowles' garage/guest room and increased to twice a week. Knowles began buying new and used books, bringing them back by the hundred-weight when returning from semi-annual family leaves in Canada. .../3