Christopher McGillicuddy was one of many children checking out books at Pompo's book fair. During parent-teacher conference days in winter and spring, the Pompo library is host to Scholastic Books, which raises money for the elementary schools to buy books. Kara Wilson, Pompo Librarian, told me that the book fair has been running for many years. They used to run it at Center School in the gym/cafeteria, but then switched to the Pompo Library, both because it is a larger space and because the fair is run by library personnel and the proceeds go to support the library, so the Library seemed the most logical place to have the fair. In recent years, parent Maryanne Talpey has run the fair, but now that there is a full-time, certified librarian (Wilson), it is now being run once again by library personnel, but Talpey was there checking patrons out! About $1600 cash profit was raised and will be used to purchase library books. Wilson said: "The generosity of the citizens of Stow is simply astounding!"
