Friends of the Healdsburg Library are once again mounting a used
book sale, Friday, Mar. 18 from 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Mar. 19
from 10 a.m. to 2 p..m. Friday is “members only” and annual
memberships can be purchased at the door for just $5. Everyone is
invited Saturday to browse the tables of donated books. A
$5-per-bag sale begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Traveling Words
The Bay Area Travel Writers is encouraging all are high school
seniors to enter a writing contest. Entry fee is free and cash
prizes will be awarded. Essays of 500 words or less are being
solicited for competition. The essays must concern a travel
destination, experience or activity. Topics can be of “the other
side of the world or the other side of the street.” Mail entries
between March 1 and April 30 to: High School Writing Contest, 3212
Jefferson St. #261, Napa, CA., 94558. Cash prizes range from $300
to $100.
Word Box
“He was old, sick, and a very troubled man, and the illusion of
peace and contentment was not enough for him. So finally, and for
what he must have thought the best reasons, he ended it with a
shotgun.” – Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on Ernest Hemingway, 1964
“One owes respect to the living: To the dead one owes only the
truth.” -Voltaire
Got Words?
Send your Word Box submissions to: “Word Box” P.O. Box 521,
Sebastopol, CA. 95473 or P.O. Box 518, Healdsburg, CA 95448
or email:
ba***@so********.com
Discoveries and Do Dates
welcomes your input and submission of local items. Send your
items two weeks prior to the intended date of publication. Include
name, phone contact and any photographs. (Sorry, photos cannot be
returned.) Mail to: Do Dates, P.O. Box 521, Sebastopol, CA 95473;
Fax: 823-7508; E-Mail:
do*****@so********.com
