The Friends Of The Library Bloomfield 80th Anniversary Celebration

The Friends of the Library, Bloomfield, the first Friends of the Library Association established in the East, celebrates its 80th Anniversary next month. Township residents and other friends of the organization and the Bloomfield Public Library are invited to the celebration, Sunday, October 18, at Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center at 3:00 p.m. The event is free and will feature author and journalist Mary Shaughnessy (Les Paul: An American Original) and poet Madeline Tiger, the introduction of special guests, including library director Adele Puccio, various dignitaries and the presentation of citations honoring the past and present of The Friends of the Library. This FREE event will also feature refreshments, including wine and hors d-oeuvres, and all attendees will be entered in raffle giveaways offered that day. Prizes include autographed books (Walk this Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith by Aerosmith and Stephen Davis, The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka, All the Single Ladies by Dorothea Frank Benton and a slip cased advance reader copy of Stardust by Neil Gaiman) and other surprise raffles. The event is co-sponsored with the Bloomfield Cultural Commission. Sunday, October 18, 2015, 3:00 pm Oakeside Mansion/Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center, 240 Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 (corner of Belleville Avenue and John F. Kennedy Drive) Parking (including police traffic and pedestrian crossing control) available on site and at the nearby Memorial Park lot.