POULSBO
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
MAY
2026 Newsletter
*Email: poulsbofriends@gmail.com
*Facebook: Poulsbo Friends of the Library
*KRL website: www.krl.org/poulsbo
*PO Box
484, Poulsbo, WA 98370
Welcome to PFOL Donna Kinkead and
Ani Kendig. We are happy to have you join
us. We hope you enjoy your experiences with us!
PFOL NEWS
Our next book sale will be held on Saturday, May 9,
from 10:00am to 2pm. If you ae thinking
of volunteering, set up is on Friday, May 8, from 9:00am to noon and Saturday
hours will be from 9:00am to 3:00pm, which includes our book sales and clean-up
and packing away books. We would love to have your help and the sharing of food
for lunch on Saturday. Thank you devoted patrons for helping with our sales. We
profited from our March efforts; $2,807.64 . We have such amazing volunteers as
well as patrons.
Donations to our monthly meetings in the form of refreshments are always welcome. We are hoping to find a member who would like to contact volunteers to bring refreshment to our meetings. A few cookies to go with our coffee or tea offerings would be a special treat. No need for multiple kinds of treats. Our most heartfelt Thanks!
The Poetry Walks season has arrived and Fish Park has set up 10 additional poems for display for a total of 20 poems. Poems will be displayed during April and May. If you notice the poems damaged or otherwise misplaced, please let us know. We also hope that the addition of directional arrows are helpful.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEWS
There were no requests to PFOL for monetary projects or considerations. We will have 2 more Directors sessions before the 2026-27 PFOL year.
The 2025-2026 PFOL year in winding down. There will be one more General Meeting in June. We will resume meetings on Monday, September 14. During the warmer months, into winter, there will be Book Sales too!
The dates for Book Sales in 2026 are as
follows.
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Saturday, May 9;
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Saturday, July 11;
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Saturday, September 12
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Saturday, November 14.
*Monday, May 4th, 10:00am, General Meeting, presentation by Baqui Kopelman, Executive Director of Vista Gardens in Bremerton.
*Saturday, May 9th, 10:00am to 2:00pm, Book sale in Community Room
*Monday, June 1st, 10:00am, Speaker to be announced
Poulsbo community events can be found at the following website. www.visitpoulsbo.com
Reminder of The
Liberty Bay Festival and Viking Fest that will occur in May. Watch for Dates
and Times at the visit Poulsbo website listed above.
Literary
Quotes for May
“At last the golden month of the
wild folk-- honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come
out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.”
― Samuel Scoville Jr., Wild Folk
“It’s genius simmering, perhaps.
I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion
all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it
was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with
his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul
and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music
was not a composer.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“But he calls down a blessing on
the blossom of the may,
Because it comes in beauty, and in
beauty blows away.”
― W.B. Yeats, Stories of Red Hanrahan
“May is green and pink and red”
― Richard L. Ratliff
