Community News 9
Ponte Vedra Recorder · September 17, 2015
Locals hit the books at semi-annual library sale
Kelly H. McDermott
The Recorder
Book lovers rejoice: a literary
smorgasbord awaits this weekend, where your purchase of
books will go to support your
local library.
The Ponte Vedra Friends of
the Library semi-annual book
sale began on Wednesday,
and runs through Saturday.
The Friends have been selling
books for the past 20 years,
and all proceeds go towards
helping the club continue to
improve the Ponte Vedra Beach
Library.
Mac Watkins, who is managing the book sale this year,
spoke highly of the books that
Photos by Kelly H. McDermott
Carol Grysko, Ruth Olsen, Maryjac Bedard, Barbara Soltis
are available.
“We have the best prices for
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Jacksonville Beach Native Sun Natural
Foods Market grand opening
Native Sun Natural Foods Market is
having a grand opening celebration for
their new Jacksonville Beach store Saturday, Sept. 19.
The festivities will begin at 10 a.m.
with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring local business owners, city officials,
and representatives from the Jacksonville
Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Following the ribbon-cutting, the first
250 customers to enter the store will
receive the gift of a Native Sun bag filled
with $50 worth of best-selling natural
and organic groceries. Shoppers will also
have a chance to win one of 20 $100
Native Sun gift cards through in-store
giveaways held during the event.
The store is located at 1585 Third St. N.,
Jacksonville Beach.
the highest quality product,”
he said. “We have books that
Taste of Golf fundraiser to benefit The
First Tee for 10th straight year
The Taste of Golf, which highlights
culinary masterpieces from the area’s top
golf and country club chefs, will be held
on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the
TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse.
The annual fundraising event will
benefit The First Tee of North Florida for
the 10th straight year. The First Tee aims
to positively impact the lives of area youth
through the game of golf. The event will
showcase chefs from Atlantic Beach CC,
Deerwood CC, Epping Forest Yacht & CC,
The Club at Hammock Beach, Jacksonville Golf & CC, Omni Amelia Island Plantation, Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Ponte
Vedra Lodge & Club, River Club, San
Jose CC, Sawgrass CC, St. Johns Golf &
CC and TPC Sawgrass. Individual tickets
are $125, and include Sunday entrance
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have been generously donated
by library patrons. All kinds of
hardcover fiction and nonfiction, and an incredible array
of children’s books.”
The books offered are in
good—and often new—condition, and volunteers have organized the books by category,
making the inventory easy to
browse. The sale also includes
a variety of puzzles for $2 each.
“It’s just about everything,”
Watkins said.
Visit the Community Room
Thursday, Sept. 17 through Saturday, Sept. 19 during normal
library hours to scoop up new
books and puzzles. On Saturday, visitors to the book sale
event will also include a silent auction,
wine pull, diamond drawing and live music. All proceeds will benefit The First Tee
of North Florida’s golf-based programs.
To purchase tickets, visit www.tasteofgolf.
com. Visit www.pontevedrarecorder.
com for the full story this week.
Registration open for Adventure
Guides, Princesses and Trailblazers
The Ponte Vedra YMCA is registering
fathers and their children for Adventure
Guid