Are we your community champion? Fairport Savings Bank is celebrating its 125th Anniversary with several initiatives, including its Community Champions Gift Contest, where four not-for-profit organizations will each receive a donation. Organizations that serve at least in part one or more of the bank’s branch communities and support the core values of Fairport Savings Bank by serving individuals, families, and the general community are eligible.  Nominations can be made in one of Fairport Savings Bank’s 5 branches or on the bank’s website, where contest details can also be found. Fairport Savings Bank community representatives will select 3 of the winners. Customers and community members will select the 4th winner by voting for their favorite nominee on the FSB Facebook page.

New Russian Books  Penfield Public Library is pleased to report that we have recently added 25 new books in Russian for all ages. For children we have 365 Fairy Tales From All Over the World, 100 Favorite Children’s Songs, three fairy tales including  Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, and The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, and the board book Dear Zoo. Teens will enjoy Suzanne Collins’Catching Fire and The Hunger Games plus the classic Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Adults have a wide choice of titles including: The Associate by John Grisham, Kat Martin’s Heart of Fire, Jackie Collins’ Lucky’s Revenge, Danielle Steel’s 44 Charles Street, Sandra Brown’s The Devil’s Own, Catherine Coulter’s Rosehaven and Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. In addition, readers of non-fiction can select the beauty book Forever Young, biographies of Anna Pavlova by Victor Dandre and Diagilev by Chernyshova-Melnik.  

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