Month: February 2019

Bonnie presenting the “check” to Mayflower Executive Director, Steve Langerud.

Residents Donate Possessions/Mayflower Wins

The Mayflower Residents Association (MRA) of The Mayflower Community (Grinnell, Iowa) operates a retail store, The Mini Gift Shop. Operations are managed by a committee of resident members of the MRA. The stock is gifts of residents’ and friends’ gently used (some never used) personal items. The Committee gets items ready for sale, prices them,

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Mayflower Resident Association Library Committee Chair, Robin Estes

Mayflower—Home of Librarians

Kathy Dempsey, Editor of Marketing Library Services newsletter, has said, “Libraries are portals to all of the world’s knowledge. And librarians make sure that knowledge continues to be recorded and saved for the future, even as information-storage devices and formats change.” In other words, librarians are really important people! We have a proportionately large number

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