We’ve had a lot of fantastic volunteers helping out this summer (and this past year, too), and I owe personal thank-yous to every one of those volunteers.\u00a0 But I thought I’d devote a blog entry to a thank-you to Alyson, former page extraordinaire, who went above and beyond last Thursday at the Tie Dye event.\u00a0 [For those of you who aren’t librarians, a page is not just a piece of paper in a book – it’s also the job title of those dedicated students who work at the library reshelving books and\u00a0who also stamp and cover new books prior to circulation.]<\/p>\n
So Alyson was our library’s page extraordinaire, and now she’s half way through college, but still regularly comes back to visit with us and to provide invaluable volunteer assistance.\u00a0 Lisa was the staff member who worked with Alyson at the Tie Dye, and Lisa told me after the event was over that we really owed Alyson a\u00a0BIG thank you, because she “worked her ass off.”\u00a0 Lisa rinsed every one of the t-shirts that came her way (we estimate 200 people attended the tie dye program), and Alyson lugged the millions of buckets of rinse water across the driveway, down a brutal slope, and into a storm drain.\u00a0 I hear tell that she even wiped out once going down the slope, but she still had good humor about it.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Alyson – you’re the best!\u00a0 And thank you to every single volunteer who helped out last Thursday.\u00a0 We could not have run this event without your help.\u00a0 I really, really appreciate all that you did!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’ve had a lot of fantastic volunteers helping out this summer (and this past year, too), and I owe personal thank-yous to every one of those volunteers.\u00a0 But I thought I’d devote a blog entry to a thank-you to Alyson, former page extraordinaire, who went above and beyond last Thursday at the Tie Dye event.\u00a0 … Continue reading A big thank you to Alyson & the rest of the volunteers<\/span>