Friends of the Sierra Madre Library to host a food and wine fundraiser ... but for which Library?

Mod: Here is one of those publicity release style articles that sadly you find too often in the Pasadena Star News these days. It is for a Sierra Madre Library fundraiser that will be held at Alverno in February. But which Library are they talking about? The current one that smells like old books, or the new one that will supposedly look a little bit like an Apple store?

Sierra Madre Library to host food, wine fundraiser (Pasadena Star Newslink): The Friends of the Sierra Madre Library will host its 48th annual Wine and Cuisine Tasting Benefit 7 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Alverno Heights Academy’s historic Villa del Sol d’Oro, 200 N. Michilinda Ave.

The event will feature more than two dozen vintners and  local restaurants offering creative foods and desserts. Tickets are $80 and allow early admission at 6 p.m. Main event tickets are $60 and provide admission at 7 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now at the Sierra Madre Public Library, The Bottle Shop, Savor the Flavor and Arnold’s Frontier Hardware & Gifts. For more information, visit sierramadrelibraryfriends.org.

Mod: So since this is a "Friends of the Library" event, and they support selling off the desirable property the current Library stands upon in order to fund the building of something rather different over by the YAC, this could put some people in kind of a funny place. What if you are a friend of the old Library? By attending this event won't you be helping fund its demise? That might not be what a true friend would care to do. Here is how they delicately try and dance around that one on the FOTSML website:



Mod: I'm not sure it is actually quite that simple. In a Star News article from last July titled "Will Sierra Madre’s library finally get upgrade, or move to new location?" (link), the Friends money spend is described this way:


Mod: Be sure to sample the brie.

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