Posted on Jan 12, 2019

Hundreds of donated books have now been re-housed to eager new readers following the Rotary summer book-sale over the weekend.  Held over 2 days at the spacious Cromwell Bowling Club stadium in Alpha street, the sale netted a little over $5000 with an average price of $2 per book.  Pam Broadhead, one of the organising group reports that about 100 banana boxes full of books were sold.  "We are very grateful to the locals and visitors alike who came to browse and buy - and of course to the many who gave us the books to sell in the first place.  We're now going to have a little rest and then get stuck in to the mammoth task of sorting the hundreds of new donations that have been received recently for the June book-sale.  That's the super-size sale.  The Bowling Club stadium will be groaning to cope with all the books (and CDs and LPs and magazines, and puzzles) we've got ready for the winter book-sale the first weekend in June."

Anyone with books, CDs, LPs, magazines to donate can drop them in at the Rotary book exchange container in the forecourt of Freeway Orchard.  It's open 363 days a year during business hours. 

Rotary also acknowledges the generous support of sponsors and supporters : Continental Party Hire, R & R Hiabs, Nichol's Garden Centre, and the Cromwell Bowling Club. 

Before the crowds arrived

Below every picture tells a story.  Only a few cartons of books remain after the weekend book-sale. A stack of empty boxes ready to be filled for the Queens Birthday weekend sale