by Peggy Robin
Today’s column
is short and appetizing. Cleveland Park has a library, and we’ve also got a
Chipotle, and if you eat at Chipotle on Tuesday, July 14, it will help the
library. (Just don’t take your Chipotle meal into the library, as that won’t help the library.)
Thanks to Jill
Bogard, President of Friends of the Cleveland Park Library, for passing along the
details of this fundraiser:
Chipotle will donate
50% of their daily proceeds to the DC Public Library (DCPL) on Tuesday, July 14. Just show them
[the image on this page] http://dclibrary.org/node/49385 (print it or keep it
on your phone) when you make your purchase. Last year the Chipotle
Fundraiser resulted in an $8,000 contribution to help fund the many programs
that DCPL hosts throughout the year.
I would add one
thing about this fundraiser – it certainly seems to me that the money goes to productive
use. In all the years that I have been compiling the weekly events column for
this listserv, I have repeatedly been struck with admiration at the amazing variety
of events put on by the DC Public Library system, at the branch libraries as
well as the Martin Luther King, Jr central library. Each week there are far
more happenings than I can include in the column, and with very few exceptions,
they are free of charge. There are author events, neighborhood meetings,
lectures, debates, career seminars, hands-on workshops, story-time and craft
activities for kids, plus many unusual and hard-to-categorize events that you
would never expect at your local library. (To give just one example: last
Thursday at the Chevy Chase branch library there was a marine biologist who
brought along live sea creatures for kids to examine.)
The DC Public
Library System is one of the things that makes DC a great city, and if by ordering
a burrito on Tuesday, we can help to make it even greater…..let’s eat!
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Still Life With
Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on
Saturdays -- or occasionally on Sunday.
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