By Revalee Hemken My family did not have much extra cash when I was growing up in Redlands, California in the 50’s and 60’s. We didn’t have air-conditioning to combat the unbelievably hot summers. We didn’t have a bookshelf full of books to read. What would an avid reader do to survive June, July, August? […]
Newcomers Find Happiness in Their New Home Town
My husband and I didn’t know anyone in Winters when we retired here. One of our first stops was the Winters Community Library. The friendly staff told us about all the services available and opportunities to volunteer at the library or with Winters Friends of the Library events. We got our library cards, joined WFoL […]
Volunteers Spotlight July 2018
Thank you Carol for your many years of service to WFoL in a variety of board and committee roles. You are always helping to reach out to the community and finding new families and babies to enroll in our wonderful Books for Babies program and making sure we are ready to reach out to the […]
Volunteer Spotlight June 2018
Meet dedicated Winters Friends of the Library (WFoL) volunteer, Marylou Linvill! Marylou says: In my working life, I have been a professional puppeteer, and more recently, a teacher at Douglass Middle School in Woodland. WFoL is my favorite organization in Winters, and over the years, I’ve held different organizing positions as a friend of […]
One WFoL Member’s Story of Support
I joined the Winters Friends of the Library(WFoL) when the organization was first formed in response to the temporary closing of our local branch of the Yolo County Library after the passage of Proposition 13 in 1979. I’d always enjoyed reading books, and I didn’t want to drive to Davis or Vacaville in order to […]