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Then consider donating them to the 10th Michael Egan Memorial Book Fair and helping the Rotary Club of Dubbo Macquarie hit two milestones.
The club is holding a book fair working bee on Thursday.
Donations of books will be accepted at Meals on Wheels at 74 Mountbatten Drive between 9am and 5pm that day.
The club will be running regular working bees up until the 2019 book fair at Dubbo Showground on May 4 and 5.
Club member and new book fair coodinator, Peter English, is asking residents of Dubbo and district to clean out their cupboards and bookshelves.
“Next year will be our 10th book fair and we want it to be the biggest yet,” he said.
“We are having monthly collection days on the last Thursday of every month until March except December. People have been so generous over the years and the club has appreciated that support.”
Mr English identified the approaching milestones.
“We hope to have handled over a quarter of a million books and raised close to $100,000 by the end of the next book fair,” he said.
Proceeds from the book fairs are donated to charities.
An equal share goes to the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section Dubbo Base and cancer research at the Bill Walsh Cancer Research Centre at Royal North Shore Hospital.
In 2018 the book fair moved from St Brigid’s hall to Dubbo Showground for the sake of more space.
“The new venue at the Dubbo Showground worked really well this year and we’ll be there again next year,” Mr English said.
“Dubbo Regional Council were very helpful and gave us great backing this year and we appreciare their ongoing commitment to this event which now attracts visitors from around the region.”
Donations to the 2018 book fair came from residents of Dubbo, Mendooran, Narromine, Wellington and as far away as Coolah and Nyngan.
Gross proceeds of the club’s 2018 book fair were a record $14,072 with about 18,000 books sold across two days.
It was held in the Centenary Pavilion at Dubbo Showground with an estimated 2000 people coming through the doors of the spacious and browser-friendly venue.
The book fair is named after the late Michael Egan, a charter member of the club.
