A cooperative effort between St. Mary's School and Oneonta Rotary. St. Mary's had to find a home for some 8,000 books plus text books due to the school's closing. We contacted the Rotary Books for the World project, coordinated by Rotarian Ward Vuillemot of the Skaneateles club. He provided all the materials required for boxing and shipping the books to
On Saturday, September 24th we had a total of 24 volunteers show up at St. Mary's to pack, label and tape about 175 boxes of books. They did it all in under 3 hours. And then, on Wednesday, September 28th, three volunteer Job Corps students loaded up the truck, loaned by Exit Realty. It was driven to the Medical Coaches warehouse where the books were unloaded and placed on pallets ready to be shrinkwrapped and shipped to
Almost 8 pallets were filled, each of which held 24 boxes. It cost Oneonta Rotary a total of $1,320 for the entire project. Funding was provided by The Oneonta Rotary Fund, a Rotary member who wished to remain anonymous, and thru a Rotarian contact made by Marie Lusins.
