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Mill Creek has book sale
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Magazines were also available for purchase at Millcreek Metroparks Twice Loved book sale.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Millcreek Metroparks has a seed library, in which members can "check out" seeds to plant, harvest the seeds from the flowers, then return the seeds to the park.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Books sat on tables to be purchased at Millcreek Metroparks Twice Loved book sale.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Books on gardening and other subjects were available to be purchased at Millcreek Metroparks Twice Loved Book Sale.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Gardening encyclopedias and magazines were some of the material available for purchase at the book sale.
By TIM CLEVELAND
As it has done for more than a decade, Mill Creek Metroparks offered its annual Twice Loved Book Sale to raise money for its library collections. Six tables sat in the library, filled with more than a thousand books and magazines in subjects such as gardening, nature, crafts, photography and cooking.
“We’ve been doing the book sale since the Davis Education and Visitor Center opened here at Fellows Riverside Gardens in December of 2000,” said horticulture director Keith Kaiser. “It was probably in either in 2001 or 2002 we started the book sale as a way of fundraising for the library collections here at the gardens.”
The sale started Feb. 15 and concluded Feb. 23 with the visitor center open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day. Magazines were priced starting at 25 cents, with books ranging from $1-$5 and up to $10.
“They’re used books but they’re very good information, still,” Kaiser said. “We have a few that we put out for raffle prizes. There’s always a few extra ones that maybe are a little bit more expensive.”
While Kaiser didn’t give a dollar amount goal for the sale, he did say that historically it has done very well and he expects that to continue this year.
“We did very well on Saturday,” he said. “We started off that day because we had the winter seminar here with men’s garden club, so we had about 150 gardeners here. They bought a lot of books.
“We usually make almost $2,000 on this sale, which is great. We did about $1,000 on Saturday so hopefully we get there. Saturday’s usually the biggest day because everybody comes that first day.”
Kaiser said the books for sale mainly come through donations, but some do come from books already in the library.
“Mostly the books have been donated by gardeners in the community, volunteers who have books related to the subject that would like to donate them to us for our book sale,” he said. “We weed our library collection, so if there’s books that are older and not being used, then we do sometimes pull those.”