The Geelong West Rotary Book Fair will return this year, much to the delight of avid local readers.
The biannual fair is the club’s major fundraising event for the year.
There will be thousands of books on offer from fiction to biographies, cooking to gardening, classics to crime and a plethora of children’s books.
You will be able to roam the aisles and pick out titles to stock your shelves, costing only $1 for children’s and paperback books and $2 for hardcovers.
“After a number of interrupted years with COVID-19, it is even more important now that we work as hard as possible to generate funds to share amongst our challenged communities,” Geelong West Rotary president Jim Marendaz said.
“Rotary is a proud not for profit organisation and all funds raised go directly to the community groups most in need”.
Funds from previous fairs have been distributed to Rotary Clubs in towns ravaged by bushfire and drought, to Samaritan House to assist those without a place to sleep, Christ Church meals feeding those less fortunate, as well as to buy a cuppa to recharge the nurses working exhaustive hours at the start of the pandemic.
Geelong Regional Library Corporation has supported the book fair for many years through the donation of books which have been ‘retired’ from their library collection.
The Geelong West Rotary Book Fair is at Geelong West Town Hall on Friday August 5 from 9am to 6pm, Saturday August 6 from 9am to 5pm and Sunday August 7 from 9am to 2pm.
