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We appreciate our volunteers, friends, customers, and donors for supporting our

Fall Book Sale on October 25 - 27th!

We look forward to seeing you in the Spring of 2025!

More information to come!


Congratulations to Friend of the Year 2024

Daryl Googel



Congratulations to our 2024 Scholarship winners

Dylan Anctil & Madison Conforto

Friends of the LRW Library 2025 Student Scholarship

The Friends of the LRW Library Scholarship is aimed at students passionate about library volunteering and community service. Two (2) winners will each be rewarded a $500 scholarship prize to be used for further education.

The purpose of this Scholarship is to honor the teen volunteers at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library. Their volunteerism helps to enhance services provided within Newington and to maintain awareness of the Library and its services to the community.

The Friends of the Lucy Robbins Welles Library scholarship has the following criteria:

A High School senior living in Newington or attending Newington Schools.

           Library Volunteerism (minimum 25 hours for 2025 award)

           An active LRW Library card and personal use of the library

           Funds must be used to further education

A specific application and essay need to be completed for consideration.

Further information is available through Karen Benner, LRW Library Administration; Mary Ellen Procko, Friends of the LRW Library or the NHS Guidance Office.

Click for the paper application  . All applications are due at the Library by April 25, 2025.

The awards will be presented at our Annual Meeting, June 11, 2025



 




 

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The Anita Wilson Memorial Family Concert Series

The Friends of the Library Advisory Board has established a Memorial Family Concert Series to honor long time library volunteer, Anita Wilson. Anita was a Friend of the Library since the late 1970's and was on the Advisory Board for most of that time. If you visited the Children's section at any of our Book Sales during the last 20 years, you likely were helped by Anita. She combined her love of children and her love of libraries to work tirelessly for both by over seeing the children's books, working year round to sort and pack the books in preparation for the sale and then worked the sale itself.


If you would like to donate, checks can be made out to the Friends of the Lucy Robbins Library with Anita Wilson Memorial in the memo line and dropped off at or mailed to the library.


2024 Friends of Lucy Robbins Welles Library, Inc.

100 Garfield Street, Newington CT  06111  860-665-8728


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