{"id":2910,"date":"2011-06-15T22:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T05:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2011-06-15T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T05:33:04","slug":"sierra-madre-public-library-fundraiser-set-for-june-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Madre Public Library Fundraiser Set for June 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-275\" title=\"librarylogosmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall-150x148.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pizza Party and Silent Auction to Benefit Children\u2019s Room<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Food, fashion and fun will highlight the silent auction at the Sierra Madre Public Library Family Pizza Party Fundraiser on Saturday, June 25 from 3 \u2013 6 p.m.\u00a0 The event will help raise money for the remodel of the Children\u2019s Room.<\/p>\n<p>Items included in the silent auction include gift certificates for The Only Place in Town, Casa Del Rey, Stone Fire Grill, Rigo\u2019s Mexican Food, Paco\u2019s, and Bean Town. Children and parents may win lunch with the Police Chief, Fire Marshall or Mayor. Gift baskets were donated by, Starbucks, In-N-Out, Savor the Flavor, Belles\u2019 Nest, Angel\u2019s Everywhere, Leonora Moss, Santa Anita Racetrack, Sierra Madre Chamber of Commerce, and others. The afternoon event will also feature pizza from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjsrestaurants.com\/\"><em>BJ&#8217;s<\/em> Restaurant and Brewhouse<\/a>, storytelling, face painting, a \u201cco-author-a-book\u201d table, a craft and games.<\/p>\n<p>The Children\u2019s room will be upgraded to make the most of new child-centered services and improve the use of space in the room. Plans include creating a preschool zone, a technology zone and a study\/reading area for students, making the room more usable for children from birth through sixth grade.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is expected to start this summer and a ribbon cutting ceremony is tentatively set for this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Library is located at 440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. in Sierra Madre.\u00a0 For more information call Meegan Tosh at 626-355-7186.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pizza Party and Silent Auction to Benefit Children\u2019s Room Food, fashion and fun will highlight the silent auction at the Sierra Madre Public Library Family Pizza Party Fundraiser on Saturday, June 25 from 3 \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}