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Now Hiring: Programming and Development Coordinator
Are you an outgoing communicator who enjoys working with the public? Do you have strong organizational and computer skills? If so, we want to hear from you!
For more information, click here:
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It's time for our GIVING TUESDAY 2022 TOTAL! Drumroll please...🥁 our total is $26,596!🥳
We asked you to maximize our $10k Angel Donor match, and you did! Then we CHALLENGED you to go higher, and you did! Because of YOU, we can do MORE for our community in 2023! Thank you! ❤
GIVING TUESDAY NOON UPDATE!
As of 12:00 today, we had received $12,067.15! This means we MAXIMIZED OUR ANGEL DONOR MATCH, for a noon total of $22,067.15! Incredible!
Can you help us meet our NEW CHALLENGE GOAL? Give online here or stop by the Library! https://t.co/xlO49mCGhl
Today is Giving Tuesday! 🥳🎉
Can you help us meet our goal? Thanks to our Angel Donor, your Giving Tuesday gift will be matched, up to $10k ($1,000 max match per individual donor)! Give now by clicking below, or stop by the library to give in person!
https://t.co/72ySVTiaRm...
🚨 BIG NEWS! 👏
Giving Tuesday is one week away, and we have an Angel Donor! Our Angel Donor will match all gifts given to the Giving Tuesday campaign, up to $10k!
Last year our GT total was $28k! Can we meet or exceed that number this year? That's up to you! ♥
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and so is Giving Tuesday! This worldwide day of giving is just two weeks away. Soon you'll have an exciting opportunity to support the Torrington Library - consider this your invitation to mark your calendar and join us! ♥
There is still some patchy fog out there, which you can see clearly on our iCam in Torrington. Today will be the last that we have to talk about foggy/muggy conditions though...brighter weather returns in time for the weekend!
THANK YOU to everyone who purchased a Stop & Shop Giving Bag in May (Torringford St) and June (High St). We received almost $300.00 from your bag purchases!
And THANK YOU to the Store Managers for selecting us as the beneficiary of the month! We appreciate you! ♥
@StopandShop
We're excited to share that every $2.50 Community Bag purchased in November at the @BigYFoods located at 504 Winsted Rd, Torrington, will send a $1 donation to us! #giveback#dogood
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.” - Italo Calvino
See you in Connecticut at the @TorrLibrary on 10/18.
Registration starts October 1st: https://t.co/B5nc3W2XTb
Join me LIVE and IN PERSON tonight at 6:30 PM for #NewEnglandLegends sponsored by the @TorrLibrary, 12 Daycoeton Place, Torrington, Connecticut. Free program, Q&A, and book signing. No registration required. Come join me for the odd side of New England!
How much money are you saving by using your local library? Find out with this handy Library Value Calculator. #LibraryCardSignUpMonth https://t.co/g3RvGKD67Z
Check out what we're reading for our next Book Club: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
When: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 at 10:30am
Where: IN PERSON at the Torrington Library (12 Daycoeton Pl, Torrington CT)
Stop by the library to pick up your copy of the book today!
John Brown was born #OTD in 1800 in Torrington, Conn. Brown was a militant abolitionist and rose to national prominence during Bleeding Kansas in the 1850s. He led a raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859 in hopes of inciting a slave revolt that would destroy slavery itself.