including, most recently, Teresa O’Neill, for the gift of a four HP laptops and a color laser-printer to our Read Santa Clara adult literacy program. If you’d like to make a donation, you can do it online by clicking here, or by sending in a check to “Santa Clara Library Foundation”, to 2635 Homestead Road, …
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Library’s first ever LOLL event February 8th will raise funds to support Santa Clara City Libraries Attend the Library’s first LOLL – Love Our Library Lollapalooza – to support programs and collections at all Santa Clara City Libraries to be held on Saturday, February 8th, from 6:00PM to 8:00PM at Central Park Library presented by …
On Sunday, September 29th, at 2pm, the City of Santa Clara dedicated the former Cedar Room in Central Park Library as the new “Margie Edinger Community Room”, in honor of Margie Edinger. At the ceremony, Ray Edinger spoke at length about his wife, Margie, her love of the community and libraries, and her desire to …
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The Santa Clara Weekly recently wrote about several events from Summer Reading, Summer Reading Kicks Off covered the first event of Summer Reading, the kickoff with a bean bag toss and trampoline for kids to play on, heard Steve Cheney’s ventriloquism act, and sampled healthywaters from Kaiser Permanente. Foundation receives large gift in memory of Margie Edinger …
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A great many children and adults attended the first “Family Fun Night!” in Santa Clara’s Central Park at the Pavilion, the first of many events this summer of Summer Reading. Before the program began, the Santa Clara Foundation and Friends accepted a check from Keypoint Credit Union for $15,000 …
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The 1844 portraits of Santa Clara pioneers Dr. Arthur Wellsley Saxe and Mary Judson Saxe have been donated by their descendant Suzanne Burke to the Santa Clara City Library. They are now hanging in the Heritage Pavilion Ms. Burke was very excited to see the photo of the portraits hanging in the Library, “My sister …
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A special thank you to our sponsor this year, KeyPoint Credit Union, who is giving us $15,000 this year to pay for programs, prizes, and publicity. They had originally given us $10,000 to help, but after hearing about all the great ideas from Library Staff about providing top notch summer reading, they just added an …
Santa Clara author Tim Meyers spoke at the Santa Clara Central Park Library on May 19th about his latest book, “Down at the Dino Wash”, and Santa Clara Weekly wrote a very interesting article about it. You can see it here. Tim’s talk was sponsored by the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends.
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends just received a large donation from Ray Edinger to rename the Central Park Library’s Cedar Community Room in honor of his wife, Margie Edinger, who passed away in April. Ray and Margie were 57-year residents of Santa Clara, and have done much to help Santa Clara. Mr. …
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Santa Clara artist and author Clarence Robert “Bob” Tower will be talking about how he published his charmingly illustrated historical fiction novel, The Adventures of Zach Gentry: a Tongue-in-Cheek History of the Opening of the West, using Amazon’s CreateSpace. Quoting from James Cox, Editor of the Midwest Book Review: “From witnessing the beginning of the …