Friends of the Coronado Center Library

Our Shamrock Showdown Was Something Special!

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The Shamrock Showdown Trivia Night on Tuesday, March 17th had another great turnout for this favorite Friends of the Coronado Center Library fund-raiser.

Held on St. Patrick’s Day, it was made even more special because we also celebrated the birthday of our favorite Irish volunteer: Mr. John Obrien, the event producer and technological guru for all our Trivia Nights!

John hard at work before the event starts.
John hard at work during the event.
But John wasn’t expecting this!
Everybody gets a piece of John’s birthday cake.
Volunteer Gail Wright is ready to help serve!!
FOCCL Board Member Lynne Eshenour
welcoming everyone to the Shamrock Showdown.
Shelly Joyner is the queen of emcees at our Trivia Nights.
And she has the tiara to prove it!
Lynne Eshenour briefs scoring guru Barb Truesdell and her daughter Mary before the start.
The rest of the scoring team is set to spring into action.
Assistant emcee Cy Holliday, Keith Sexton of the POA, and John Zaigler
look pretty darn judicious at the judging table.
New FOCCL Treasurer Sonja Griggs is keeping close tabs on all things financial.
We had 10 amazing door prizes to offer!
Library volunteer Dacia Bouse and FOCCL Secretary Betsy Martens
pose here before getting to work as runners.
We had a full house!
Some tables really got their Irish on!
There was lots of wearin’ o’ the green!
“They’re magically delicious!”
These eyes were smiling, whether they were Irish or not!!
Karen Simmons had the luck of the Irish and won our 50-50 drawing.
FOCCL’s half of the funds from the drawing helps support the Library.
Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket!
The Riff-Raff team was our overall winner, shown here with their medals.
The trophy will return to its usual spot in the library, waiting for our next Trivia Night.
We hope the team will return in September to defend their title then!

Thank you to Lynne Eshenour and Sunny Lofton
for providing some of these great candid shots!

And a very special thank you to
Ike Eisenhauer and his
State Farm Insurance Agency
for being our sponsor!