Author: bvmartens

  • FOCCL Gets Festive!!

    The Friends of the Coronado Center Library held our annual appreciation luncheon for our amazing library and Trivia Night volunteers on Thursday, December 4. FOCCL President Rebecca Schulte announced the results of the FOCCL Board election, introduced our three new officers, and presented gifts to our outgoing officers. The group enjoyed a delicious lunch catered…

  • Hurray for the Hot Springs Village Voice!

    We appreciate all the great coverage of our activities from our friends at the Hot Springs Village Voice. So here’s another just-published article from the Voice about the many library services in the Village. Enjoy!!

  • Our Book Sale Was Huge!

    Thanks to the help of lots of Friends (and friends of Friends), we were able to hold our first big book sale in several years, and it was a huge success!! After months of planning led by book sale co-chairs Jaan Kulhman and Rebecca Schulte, the FOCCL book sale was held in the Coronado Center…

  • Story Time at Our Milk and Cookies Authors Event!

    Our October 21st Milk and Cookies (and Wine!) with Local Children’s Authors program at the Coronado Center was FOCCL’s final authors’ event of the year, and it ended with lots of wonderful stories (and cookies!) First up was Kathe Hudson, who read from some of her stories about children in various countries learning important life…

  • Meet Our October 21st Authors

    The 6 children’s book authors presenting at our Cookies and Milk (Wine Too!) event on Tuesday, October 21 will be: Sharron Bennett, Linda Black, Kathe Hudson, Deb Kuster, Ashlee Linsley, and Rita Van Sickle. No word yet about what cookies will be there. Come and find out!!

  • We’re Back From the Future!

    “Back to the Future: Decades of Trivia” was another great evening of fun, food, and hard-fought trivia battles! Can you identify the corporate logos that belong to Starbucks or Zillow, or maybe you can identify the song titles from just the first couple of bars of The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” or The Band’s…

  • Back to the Future!

    In the 1940’s a trivia game debuted on the radio program “Take it or Leave It.” In 1964 trivia appeared for the first time on television in the form of the game show, “Jeopardy.”  On January 4, 1980 the first National Trivia Day was celebrated.  Trivia has been embraced by young and old alike.  It…

  • Secrets of the Tailgaters!

    If your team wants to be a top tailgating team (and have a shot at that big bottle of champagne for the winning team!) here’s some advice for you. Be aware of our theme for the evening and make sure that your table decorations reflect that theme, as that’s a very important factor for our…

  • Thunder Rolls at the Truth Seekers!

    The afternoon’s thunderstorm didn’t keep the crowd away from our Truth Seekers event, featuring well-known authors Kathy Sanders and Jeff Meek. No washout for this turnout! Of course, we couldn’t hold these events without our wonderful volunteers, so here are some of them!

  • Get Set for Trivia Night: Register Now!

    It’s time to get your team together for our next trivia night on September 23! Learn all about it by listening to this segment from KVRE featuring our own Lynne Eshenour and Rebecca Schulte!! You can download the team entry form here! Or, if you’re not already with a team, you can download the solo…