FoL Gifts to WPL

2025

One Book, One Canyon: Go As a River by Shelley Read. Copies of her book for the community plus author presentation at WPL

$1000 eBooks grant from private donation

FOL Meet & Greet/Annual Meeting refreshments & raffle prizes – 2 FOL Business Partner gift cards

Support for WPL’s 50th Birthday Celebration

WPL’s Long Table Dinner

Youth Summer Reading Program incentives

Reading2Connect program for aging adults and those with dementia

1400 SMART bus tickets for teen students

10 Good Things cookbooks for Cookbook Book Club

Wildflower Hike, books & author talk

Jigsaw Puzzle Competition prizes – 9 FOL Business Partner gift cards

Library Trivia raffle prizes – 2 FOL Business Partner gift cards + 2 FOL memberships

1 box of soft-cover books for FL Correctional Facilities (for Andrea Kalin’s Public Defender Spark Media film project)

2024

One Book, One Canyon: The Last Ranger by Peter Heller. Copies of his book for the community plus author presentation at WPL.

$1000 eBooks grant from private donation

FOL Meet & Greet/Annual Meeting refreshments & raffle prizes – 2 FOL Business Partner gift cards

Jigsaw Puzzle Competition prizes – 9 FOL Business Partner gift cards

Library Trivia raffle prizes – 3 FOL Business Partner gift cards + 3 FOL memberships

4 boxes of soft-cover books for CO Correctional Facilities (for Andrea Kalin’s Public Defender Spark Media film project)

2023

One Book, One Canyon: Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen. Copies of his book for the community plus author presentation at WPL.

$750 eBooks grant from private donation

50 stackable wooden folding chairs

Jigsaw Puzzle Competitions prizes – 6 FOL Business Partner gift cards

Library Trivia raffle prizes – 2 FOL Business Partner gift cards + 2 FOL memberships

10 copies of The Red-Headed Cook of the Desert: Meth, Murder & Motherhood by Judy Muller & Cheri Mathews for CO Women’s Correctional Facilities

2022

One Book, One Canyon: Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow by Heather Hansman. Copies of her book for the community plus author presentation at WPL.

WPL staff holiday party (a Covid morale boost)

2021

One Book, One Canyon – Covid hiatus

Smart TV + accessories for meeting room #5

Book storage bin for Youth Area

Staff “Golden Egg Hunt” – gift cards from FOL Business Partners

2020

One Book, One Canyon: Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware. Copies of her book for the community plus author presentation via Zoom.

2019

One Book, One Canyon: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Copies of her book for the community plus author presentation at WPL.

Framed “Little Bear Dreams of Porridge” by Judy Haas for the Kids’ Area

Art piece by Stephanie Morgan celebrating FOL’s Business Partners & Super Star Donors

2018

One Book, One Canyon: The Newcomers by Helen Thorpe. Copies of her book for the community plus author presentations at WPL and THS.

StoryWalk on the River Trail

2017

One Book, One Canyon: The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande. Copies of her book for the community plus bilingual author presentations at WPL and THS.

2016

10 Townie Bikes (very pink!)

Mobile cooking cart & accessories

Self-checkout machine

Annual courier service for WPL’s drop box in Placerville

2015

Jose Luis Orozco bilingual performance at Middle School & concert at WPL

6 long folding tables for the Program Room

Reupholstering of the Kids’ Area StoryTime bench

Patron Appreciation Day support

“Read With Hart” Little Free Library in Placerville

Annual courier service for WPL’s drop box in Placerville

2014

WPL drop box in Placerville + 1 year of courier service

Sunshade for upstairs west terrace

Work mats for FOL book sorting area

Reusable storage boxes for book sale items

2013

Energy efficient lighting for Telluride Room

TV screen for WPL display in Mountain Market lobby

Reusable dishes & tableware for Youth Area

Bioneers seminar

2012

Programs: Bioneers seminar, Books & Cooks, Cine de las Montanas, Telluride Film Festival’s Cinematheque, “Feasts of Spring” (cooking & food culture) by Susanna Hoffman

Mac Book Pro computer for Media Department

Color LCD monitor for WPL lobby

Book covering machine for Tech Department

DVD browser drawers for Youth Area

Reusable storage boxes for book sale items

2011

Brian Selznick & Remy Charlip literary program

Kitchen sink & dishwasher for Program Room

Woodshop program for teens