Friends Raffles Offer Unique Prizes

The Friends of the East Providence Public Library are sponsoring two raffles. The Taste of Fall raffle features gift cards to Avenue N, Black Duck Tavern, BJ’s Wholesale Club, China Gourmet, Dave & Buster’s, IHOP and Shaw’s Supermarket. They also feature breakfast for two at Persy’s Place, a Miller’s Roast Beef gift card and prize bag, coffee baskets from Dunkin’ and Starbucks, a hand-crafted teddy bear, made by Sheila Van Gyzen and a hand-crafted reversible quilted table runner and placements by East Providence seamstress Sharon DuBois.

The special raffle features a signed open segmented fruit bowl, made of more than 100 pieces of cherry, gonco alves and yellow heart wood, and measuring 6.25” tall and 8.5” in diameter. It was made by Tom Van Guyzen of Riverside. Tickets for both raffles can be purchased at the Welcome Desk at Weaver Library, 41 Grove Ave., East Prov. and at Riverside Library, 475 Bullocks Point Ave., Riverside, during library hours. They can also be purchased during the Fall Book Sale at Weaver, Oct. 13 to 16. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. All proceeds benefit the library.