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anyone who volunteers to be ‘locked up’ then has to phone to collect a certain amount of bail money pledges to regain their free- dom. The catch with this fundraiser is that people can also offer money to keep the ‘prisoner’ incarcerated a little longer, with the ‘stay in jail’ pledge not counted as part of the bail amount. For the ice bucket challenge, Davies has sent an email to the fire department, challen- ging either the chief or second-in-command to joinDavies in the lobby area of the YMCA building outside the library entrance and stand in a wading pool for an hour at least with a bucket of ice water dumped on them every fiveminutes. Davies explained how he plans to train for this if the fire department picks up his challenge gauntlet. «Take cold showers,» he said, smiling. «Actually, I like the cold so I feel quite confident I’ll see it all the way through.» Every dollar collected during the fundrai- ser events goes towards the goal of $2500 for support of the summer reading club.
They came. They sat. They read. Dozens of eager readers, young and old, settled in at the Clarence-Rockland Public Library Saturday noon hour for the First Annual C-R Library Readathon. The March 28 event was the kickoff for the library’s fundraising drive in support of its TD Summer Reading Club program. Paul Davies, assistant programmer at the library, is in charge of its reading club programand is content enough with the turnout for a first- time readathon event given the sunny spring weather that graced the Clarence-Rockland area. More fun fundraiser projects are in store before the arrival of summer. «There will be a Jailed in the Library event later this year, and we’re also looking at an ice bucket challenge,» Davies said. «For the Jailed in the Library, the mayor and MP Grant Crack have both agreed to be ‘locked up’.» With the Readathon, children collected pledges of $5 for each book they promised to read during the hour-long event.They were given amaximum limit of $25 in pledges they could collect. Anyone dropping by the library that day who wanted to donate or make a late pledge was also welcome and those unable to visit the library over the last weekend in March can drop off pledges or readathon donations later in the week. With the Jailed in the Library event,
Adley Fraser has his dad, Brian, beat nine-ways-to-Sunday, or in this case, nine books to one, in the Readathon competition at the Clarence-Rockland Library over the March 28 weekend.
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