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Book sale once again a smashing success (2010)

Hyde Park Herald November 3, 2010. By Jane Ciacci, President, HPKCC and book sale co-chair, and Jane Comiskey, co-chair

Over Columbus Day weekend, the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference held the annual Hyde Park Used book Sale. For a third year we have enjoyed the sponsorship and support of the Hyde Park Treasure Island store. Specail thanks to Babe Magnus, store manager, his staff -- especially to the produce department for providing an endless supply of boxes! From mid-August until the sale, Treasure Island provided the collection point for books and a room in which to sort and pack them, as well as the manpower to send boxes of books up the conveyor belt and move them on pallets to the plaza on setup day.

This year we are proud that the Book Sale in turn made donations of books to organizations that will make good use of them. Residents of D.A.R.E. at 55th and Cornell selected books to start a library there. An anonymous benefactor selected books for Whittier School in Pilsen, where parents are fighting to establish a library in a fieldhouse that CPS would like to demolish. Books were selected for Shoesmith School, on the west side of Kenwood Park. Books left over on Monday afternoon were donated to Reading Tree, a literacy organization which will distribute many of them free as part of its programs to promote reading, sell others and recycle responsibly what cannot be used.

The profits from the Book Sale support HPKCC's mission of working toward an attractive, secure, diverse and caring community. HPKCC is a membership organization which serves the community as a watchdog, independent vice and clearing house int eh community's ongoing conversation and decisions about matters which affect and define community life. We welcome new members! Read about us at hydepark.org.

Thanks again to Maria Kamberos, owner of Treasure Island, to Babe Magnus and his staff and thanks also to our many donors, our volunteers, our team of paid workers and to our costumers old and new for ensuring another successful sale!