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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Rappahannock County Library has launched an unprecedented county-wide fund drive to raise the $600,000 it needs to construct its new building.
Letters were sent last month to 2,200 property owners asking for tax-deductible contributions to the building fund, according to finance committee member James P. “Jamie” Jamieson. The letters include a pledge card, he added, and contributions can be spread out for as long as three years on a payment plan tailored to each individual’s desire ability to pay.
“Large contributions are appreciated, but every dollar helps.” And, Mr. Jamieson added, they have had $1 contributions in the past.
He said that he is focusing his efforts right now on raising $100,000 in large pledges of at least $5,000. He has almost reached that goal from a number of individuals and businesses, he said, including $5,000 in the name of the Rappahannock News to be used for the periodicals section.
Mr. Jamieson added that the committee has received a total of about $300,000 in cash and pledges. “We’re three-fifths of the way there.”
The library has had an annual fund drive through its privately chartered auxiliary, the Friends of the Library. In the past, about 150 individuals have been steady contributors to that fund.
However, the amount of money needed to build the new facility has made the county-wide appeal necessary, he explained.
He offered as an example of the the kind of support the library has found the donation of land for the new building by Dean and Linda Morehouse of Washington. “That was a terrific start -- it was a very substantial gift.”
The library has grown trememdously since it was organized in 1963, and had really outgrown its present site on Gay St. even before the sale of the building by the town forced it to seek new quarters. Its book collection has grown from 1,000 to 18,000 volumes, and about one
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