Thanks for making book sale a success
Friends of the Library at the Brookfield Public Library have a lot of people to thank for our recent successful book sale. First, we would like to thank the nearly 300 buyers who came in to check out our collection. Then we want to thank all those library patrons who have been donating books throughout the year. Without you, we never would be able to have a book sale.

But, of course, the work behind the scenes was equally important. A special thanks goes to Geri Hletko who was the June 23 book sale chairperson and to Berthel-Lewis Electric, which sponsored a $100 drawing. Anyone who bought a book could enter.

Kudos also go to Jerry Hill from Westchester who turned us on to registering our event on the Internet, and new part-time library PR staff who developed our press releases and ads.

Thank you, Betty Mathias for not letting us forget the importance of classified ads. And, of course, there were other library staff and hordes of Friends, and friends of Friends, who helped sort, organize, set up and clean up.

Thank you Landmark for the timely article and photo.

Thank you all for a yeoman’s effort that really paid off (three times what we usually make!) for our organization and its mission to support the Brookfield Public Library.

Sandra Baumgardner, president
Friends of the Brookfield Public Library

Stop the spending before it’s too late
Brookfield is under attack by our schools, by our elected party and now by our library.

The new party wants to “improve” everything by hiring two managers at a cost of over $200,000 as against the old one-man manager at $90,000 per year. That, coupled with a total change in personnel-result, more taxes.

The high school superintendent declared the school was worn out, so he rammed through a $60 million building program that will actually cost $93 million because of the interest on the debt.

So here comes the librarian who wants to build a new library … in a location that is not even bought yet. …

We are facing a huge debacle in every taxable area. Our officials are on a spending spree that will make our town a ghost town, a victim of taxpayer complacency and the carpetbaggers who have stolen our town right from under our noses.

It is time for all of us to rise up and throw those carpetbaggers out. We can cut their $93 million boondoggle in half. Fire the Garvey debacle and cancel the library.

We must do it starting today. Otherwise Brookfield will die under a sea of debt.

Frank Drazan
Brookfield