Books worth bucks to Rotary Club

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Published on Wednesday, April 25, 2018

By Eoin Devereux

Neepawa Banner & Press

The Rotary Club of Neepawa had some modest expectations for their inaugural book sale on Apr.13-14. But not only did the event surpass those initial expectations, it shattered them. 

Rotary Club member Murray Newton said that when the idea was first pitched to do the book sale, the hope was that the club would be able to gather around 2,000 books and hopefully raise about $1,000. Newton said they hit that number, and then some. 

“By the time we counted the number of books that have been donated, we had received nearly 7,000. That was a big response. One that [the Rotary Club] was blown away by,” Newton exclaimed. “As for the days of the sale, we had a lot of people browsing the aisles. It was quite busy. When it was all over, we had raised about $3,200. This being the first year of the sale, we went into this with what we thought were realistic expectations of bringing in about $1,000. We are all just so pleasantly surprised by the response.” 

As for the leftover books, the majority of them will be left in storage for the next edition of the sale, while some of the more damaged novels sent away for recycling. Newton said the Rotary Club thanks everyone for their support.

The proceeds of the book sale will go towards Rotary projects in Neepawa and around the world.