72nd Annual Ladies Board Rummage Sale is This Friday and Saturday!

From the Ladies Board Press Release:

The 72nd Annual Ladies Board Rummage Sale is Friday, October 15 and Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Morven Park International Equestrian Center . General sale hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. both days with a special “early bird” hour on Friday, October 15th from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. by ticketed admission only.

This is a much loved, annual event regarded by many as the “biggest treasure hunt and bargain shopping extravaganza in Loudoun County” if not all of Northern Virginia. You’ll understand when you see the nearly 40,000 square feet of trinkets and treasures – all under cover in the arenas and barns at the Equestrian Center. You can find furniture, antiques, clothing for the entire family, designer labels at the French Room, household items, décor and holiday pieces, small electrical appliances, tools, sporting and exercise equipment, collectibles, gift and boutique items. You can find just about everything here, including some years a kitchen sink!

Many fine items are also available at the one-day-only Silent Auction held on Friday, October 15. Bidding closes at 2:00 p.m. on Friday and items must be paid for that day.

This year’s “early bird” hour is a special fundraising effort to support the Polly Clemens Nursery Fund project which provides equipment and supplies at Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Nursery Department. You can participate by coming early Friday, October 15 from 8 am to 9 am for just Five Dollars ($5.00). This limited entrance event allows you to enjoy a more peaceful buying experience (before the mad rush at 9 a.m.) while supporting a very worthwhile cause. Tickets are available now at the Gift Shop at Inova Loudoun Hospital, the Twice Is Nice thrift shop and the Black Shutter antique shop in Leesburg. Tickets will also be available on site Friday morning.

Business and community leaders have generously supported us through the decades and this year is no exception. The Ladies Board is deeply grateful for their support. Individuals who volunteer their time are the backbone of this event, and in 2009 there were more than 425 volunteers who helped pick up furniture, unload tractor trailers, sort donations and sell the donations during the long days preceding and during the sale known as “rummage week.” Last year’s sale grossed $129,000 and all proceeds support Ladies Board projects.

Belmont Book Club's Next Meeting

Please join the Belmont Book Club at our next meeting on Wednesday, November 3rd at 7pm in the formal dining room.  We will be discussing The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  RSVP to Susan Salazar at susan_salazar1960@hotmail.com.

Hope to see you there!

From the publisher:

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

Loudoun County Library Starting Overdue Fines

(From Loudoun County Press Release)

Overdue fines will be implemented for all overdue materials at all branches of Loudoun County Public Library beginning Tuesday, October 5, 2010. All materials overdue on that date will be charged an overdue fine.

The new policy covers all branches: Ashburn, Cascades, Lovettsville, Middleburg, Purcellville, Rust (Leesburg), and Sterling.

During the FY 2011 budget process, overdue fines were instituted by the Library Board of Trustees and the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in order to prevent, to the extent possible, reductions in library services. Overdue fines will begin on October 5, 2010 and payment will be due on every overdue item. The fine will be 10 cents per day, per item. The maximum fine per item will be $5.00. An unpaid fine of $10 or more will block the library card so that no more items can be checked out or renewed. Overdue fines may be paid at any payment kiosk in any library branch or online.

Visit any branch of Loudoun County Public Library or library.loudoun.gov/fines for more details.