Clean Places, Friendly Faces

“We invest in the communities we join.”

Clean places, friendly faces: That could describe libraries – and fittingly, it’s the slogan of our new corporate sponsor, Love’s Travel Stops.

When Love’s opened its first Charlotte travel stop last month, general manager Christopher Frey was invited to choose a local non-profit to receive a corporate donation. “Love’s is a family-owned company, and we have a culture of community and customer service. As a company, we make it a priority to invest in the communities we join.” For Frey, choosing Charlotte Mecklenburg Library was easy. “I’ve always been a reader, and I can’t imagine a greater way to make a positive impact in this community than to invest in literacy through the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation.”

Frey and his staff presented a check for $2,000 at the travel stop’s ribbon-cutting on July 30. The unrestricted gift will be split evenly among the Library’s twenty branches and used for programming and staff development.

Welcome to the community, Love’s Travel Stops!

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The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation was back at the Charlotte Convention Center at Verse & Vino this year. We are thrilled to announce that we had 1,100 people in attendance and raised over $475,000… with donations still coming in. If there is a group of people more dedicated, enthusiastic and committed to improving and strengthening an organization like the Library, it’s our Verse & Vino guests. They’re the reason why we are one of America’s leading urban public libraries.

This year we were joined once again by our emcee Sheri Lynch and five outstanding New York Times bestselling authors: David Baldacci, Sarah McCoy, Javier Zamora, Megan Giddings, and Adriana Trigiani.

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