Sundays FUNDays
Dine at Arcodoro & Pomodoro
September 5, 12 and 19
Mention the Friends of the Dallas Public Library
to your server or when making your reservation.
10% of your food purchase will benefit the Friends
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Meet the Authors for a book signing and stay for lunch
September 5 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Julie Ziglar Norman: Embrace the Struggle
Julie Ziglar Norman will be signing her book which she co-authored with her dad Zig Ziglar.
September 12 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Julie Hersh: Struck by Living – From Depression to Hope
Julie Hersh will present her boo kin a formal program at the restaurant.
Brice Beaird will perform songs from his CD which were influenced by the book.
September 19 – 11:30 am – 3:00 pm
Rusty Williams: Dallas in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s
A photo book showing the transformation of Dallas starting in1950 when it was a spirited Texas town of regional importance and by 1980 it was an international destination.
NOTE: On all dates, Efisio Farris, owner and chef, will have autographed copies of his award winning cookbook Sweet Myrtle & Bitter Honey. Buy a copy and 10% of the profits will be donated to the Friends.
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Arcodoro & Pomodoro Sunday Hours of Operation:
Brunch - 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Dinner - 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm
During brunch enjoy $11 bottomless
Mimosas and Bellinis!
100 Crescent Court (corner of Maple & McKinney) Dallas, TX 75201
Reservations: 214-871-1924
http://www.arcodoro.com
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Comerica CEO Ralph Babb, Friends Chair Michelle Manners, Interim Director of Libraries Corinne Hill, Mayor Tom Leppert.
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Comerica Donates $50,000 to Two Southern Sector Branch Libraries
This morning, City Hall and Comerica Bank announced that the company is donating $50,000 to adopt two libraries in Southern Dallas.
The Polk-Wisdom and North Oak Cliff branch libraries will benefit from the donation at a time when City Hall has had to slash funding for library staff and materials.
The donation, made through the Friends of the Dallas Public Library, will be used " to purchase new materials including books,magazines, children's materials, educational films and educational computer software for the two library branches considered to be the most in-need by the organization," a release stated.
City Manager Mary Suhm has said she expects to spend the same amount of money library materials in the coming budget year as she has spent in the current year.
But the roughly $1.2 million set aside in next year's budget for materials is considered woefully inadequate to the library system's needs. (Rudolph BUsh - DMN 8-18-2010)
Click Here for more photos.
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Board Chair Michelle Manners, author Tom Alexander, and Sandra Johnson
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Kick Off With Author Tom Alexander
August 12, 2010
The Save Our Dallas Libraries kick off with author Tom Alexander was a great success. The prgram started with Board Chair Michelle Manners sharing the statistics of the funding and usage of the libraries in recent years. As budgets are being vut, usage has been rising. The audience asked many questions and many shared their experiences at the recent Town Hall meetings.
Author Tom Alexander shared that Stanley Marcus was a founding member of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library and would have certainly been with us were he alive today. His reminisces about his 17 years working for Stanley Marcus shared rare insight. Along with the photo presentation, it was an enthralling evening for all.
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