Friends Of the Chickasha Public Library
13th Annual Chocolate Celebration is Thurs., Feb. 13
By the Friends of the Chickasha Public Library
The 13th annual ‘Chocolate Celebration’ fundraiser, sponsored by the Friends of the Chickasha Public Library, is Thurs., Feb. 13, 2025 from 5:00-7:00 pm in the Epworth Church Life Center, 4th and Iowa in Chickasha.
Tickets are available NOW and are $6 for a gift box of six individual servings selected by YOU!
Individuals who purchase tickets in advance of the event will be admitted before those who wait to purchase a ticket at the door.
Tickets may be purchased at the Chickasha Public Library, from the table sponsors, as well as, from the Friends’ Board of Directors.
The Chocolate Celebration is open to the community. Park in the north parking lot and enter through the double doors on the north side of Epworth Church.
To date, 17 individuals, groups, and businesses have volunteered to be table sponsors with each providing at least 200 individual servings of chocolate treats at their tables.
If you would like to be a table sponsor, contact Angie at 405-779-6969 ASAP and let her know so a space can be reserved for you to be a part of this special event.
THANK YOU to the 2025 Table Sponsors: Altrusa Club of Chickasha, American Association of University Women, Bank of Commerce, Ben and Jay’s Pizzeria, Chickasha Area Arts Council, Chickasha Community Theater, Chickasha Kiwanis Club, Chickasha Public Library Board, Epic Charter School, Epworth United Methodist Church, Grady County 4-H, Lucile/Blue Bonnet OHCE, Onin Staffing, PEO Chapter FV, R & B Mowing, Red Rock BHS, and Storytime Moms.
If you would like to help with this annual fundraiser, the Friends welcome donations of items for the Bake Sale. These items do not have to be ‘chocolate’. They will be priced and sold individually as whole cakes, plates of cupcakes, cookies, brownies, candy, etc.
THANK YOU to the 2025 Corporate Sponsors: Platinum – Kiwanis Club of Chickasha; Gold – Arvest Bank; Bob Lowe, Inc.; Century 21/Mosley Insurance Agency; Chickasha Rotary Club; First National Bank & Trust Co.; LaForge Properties LLC; P.E.O. Chapter FV; Standley Systems; Silver – American Association of University Women; Angel, Johnston & Blasingame; Chickasha Optimist Club; Churndashers Quilt Guild; DeHart Air Conditioning; Grand Avenue Dental; Liberty National Bank; Onin Staffing; P.E.O. Chapter CR; P.E.O. Chapter DV; Richard’s Printing; and Rick Johnston State Farm Insurance Agency, Inc.
Questions – contact Angie at 405-779-6969.
Proceeds from the 13th annual Chocolate Celebration 2025 will be used to purchase new interior signage for the Chickasha Public Library.
Friends of the Library Host Local Authors Festival at Chickasha Public Library October 26
The Friends of the Chickasha Public Library will host a Local Authors Festival on Saturday, October 26 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Chickasha Public Library. The community is invited to meet local authors and purchase copies of their books.
Authors who are participating include Winona Cross Bennett, Kendall Brashears, M.E. Craig, Maxine Douglas, Debbie Fogle, Tamrie Foxtail, Terry Godfrey, June Gray, Kenny Harmon, Pete Hammert, Eileen Hobbs, Linda Fellers Hundley, Anna Kittrell, Brian McNatt, Kathy Shaull, Michelle Skinner, Cheryl L-G Trent, and Liz Tyner.
All of the authors will be set up at tables in the meeting room with copies of their books, which are written in a variety of genres. There will be memoirs, young adult books, historical and contemporary romance, fantasy, suspense, local history, horror, and mysteries. This is a chance for everyone to visit with local authors, ask them about their books, and also purchase some new books to read.
All Library programs are free to attend. For more information, call the Chickasha Public Library at 405-222-6075.
Friends of the Library accepting donations for spring Book Sale
by the Friends of the Chickasha Public Library
If spring house cleaning is under way and you have well-used and/or unwanted books, please consider donating them to the Friends of the Library for its spring used Book Sale, scheduled Mon.-Sat., April 15-20.
Donations of books for Children, Teens, and Adult Fiction, Reference Materials, and Non-Fiction Books, DVDs and Book CDs are greatly appreciated.
NOTE: Video and cassette tapes are not being accepted for this sale.
If you are donating several sacks or boxes of books, please call the Library at 405.222.6075 before you arrive so the staff can be prepared to meet you at 527 Iowa Avenue, Chickasha.
Donations of books and other items mentioned previously are accepted throughout the year at the Library.
Proceeds from Book Sales will be to purchase new books and materials for the Library.
For more information about the used Book Sale and any Library event, please contact the Library at 405.222.6075.
Books Come Alive and Local Author Festival will be held Saturday, March 25!
Submitted by the Friends of the Chickasha Public Library
The Friends of the Library and Chickasha Public Library invite the community to stop by the Library on Sat., March 25, 2023 between 2pm and 4pm for two very special attractions! The Library is located at 527 Iowa Ave., Chickasha, OK.
Visitors will enjoy being entertained by Books Come Alive presenters as they each create their own setting, costume as a character, and present a 3-5 minute scene from a book they have selected to share. Participating as presenters are Mischelle Blunt who has chosen “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett; Dr. Christy Clift will portray a scene from “Harry Potter” by JK Rowling; and the Library’s children’s director Drew Cooper has selected “Beauty and the Beast” as her book. Also presenting are Rebecca Cravens portraying a scene from “Jane Austen”; Sydny Dockery has chosen the book “Percy Jackson” by Rick Riordan; Dr. Jeanne Mather selected Mike Artell’s “Petite Rouge”; and Rick Phillips will be having fun with “Star Wars”. Well-known radio host George Plummer will be presenting a special book, as well!
While at the Library, stop by the meeting room and visit with the authors who are participating in the “Local Author Festival”. All the authors will set up at tables and have books for sale. This year the authors include Karen Knauss Bailey Alicia Dean, Tamrie Foxtail, Dr. Todd Fuller, Kenny “Sad Pawpaw” Harmon (NOTE: enter a drawing at his table to win a copy of his book!), Dr. Crag Hill, Callie Hutton, Anna Kittrell, Brian McNatt, Gloria Koehn Morse, Kathy Shaull and Liz Tyner.
NOTE: The Library will close at noon on Sat., March 25, to set up for these two exciting events! For additional information about these activities and others at the Library, call 405.222.6075.