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Interested in knitting or crocheting? Yarning with Friends has a new meeting place–the Salida Library. Details of our next meeting (March 11, 2025) are on our calendar.

FOML Annual Meeting Set for March 5 at Salida Regional Library

The Friends of the Modesto Library’s annual membership meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 5, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Salida Regional Library. This is an informative and important meeting about what’s going on now and what’s ahead for FOML.

The Nominating Committee will present a slate of board officers for the coming year and we’ll review both FOML’s accomplishments during the last year as well as preview our activities for 2025. In addition, County Library Director Sarah Dentan will provide an update on the Modesto Library renovation.

We are also delighted to welcome as our guest speaker Paula Treick DeBoard, who will talk to us about all things literary – from owning an independent bookstore to her experiences as a published author and more. Paula is a fiction writer, educator and the owner of Bookish, an independent bookstore that opened in Modesto in 2024. She is the author of four novels: “Here We Lie” (2018), “The Drowning Girls” (2016), “The Fragile World” (2014), and “The Mourning Hours” (2013). Paula teaches creative writing at the University of California, Merced and is always plotting her next story. She lives in Modesto with her husband Will and their two rescue pups. Paula will not be selling her books that day, but if you have a book you would like signed, bring it to the meeting.

We hope to see you at the FOML Annual Meeting, March 5, from 4 to 6 p.m., Salida Regional Library, 4835 Sisk Road, Salida.