General News: Book Sales to Benefit Cornwall Museum, Schools
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December 05, 2006
If you're planning on buying books for anyone on your holiday shopping list, your dollars spent at Barnes & Nobles in Newburgh will benefit Cornwall schools and the Museum of the Hudson Highlands, depending on which day you shop. Here are the details:
On Wednesday and Thursday, December 6 and 7, the Museum of the Hudson Highlands will receive a percentage of sales if you mention the Museum or present the clerk with a voucher when you check out. As an added attraction, a Museum Educator will be at the store from 2 to 5:30 p.m. with some of museum's ambassador animals, an American toad, a corn snake, a box turtle, and a black rat snake.
If you can't make it to the store this week, your purchases will also make a difference on Monday and Tuesday, December 11 and 12, when a portion of the proceeds will be donated the Cornwall Central Middle School Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). The CCMS student band will be on hand at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, serenading shoppers with holiday music. The high school is fielding an acapella group at the store on Tuesday evening, and if you choose, you can tell the clerk to send a portion of your sale to the high school book club.
Willow Avenue Elementary School children will also benefit from sales at Barnes & Noble on Thursday and Friday, December 14 and 15.
Carol Scalzo, the community relations director at Barnes & Noble, says the store is happy to help the Museum of the Hudson Highlands "because of all the wonderful things that they do." She also says she is "really psyched about having the schools because the "students get the benefit of being here and performing."
Scalzo points out that the schools provide a wish list of books they would like to enhance their educational programs and anyone visiting the store can purchase a book on the list to be donated to the school.
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