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The Friends of the Coronado Center Library board meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 20th, at the HSV Chamber of Commerce, 121 Cordoba Center Drive, at 1 p.m. Members are welcome to attend!

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…

Here are the individual and team registration forms for our Shamrock Showdown Trivia Night on March 17th. Ready, set, download!!! Team Registration Form Individual Registration Form

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…

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…

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…

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!!

“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…

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…