BETHEL — For the 19th consecutive year, the Bethel Library Association will host a plant sale on the lawn beside the library to raise money for repairs and upgrades to the building, library volunteer Susan Day said.

Day, who has been involved with the sale for nearly 10 years, said that the library plant sale will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday, May 31, and will feature a variety of different plants and flowers.

“There’s a pretty good variety of plants that we’ll be selling,” Day said. “There’s going to be houseplants, outdoor plants, plants that people can put in their garden, peonies, ferns and lilies. We always have a wide variety for people to select from.”

Assistant Librarian Gina Douglass said Friday that “most of the plants we get at the sale are donated from local gardeners.

“We get a lot of gardeners in the area who need to thin out their gardens, and a lot of them will donate the plants to us,” Douglass said.

During the 2013 plant sale, Day said, the Plant Sale Committee agreed for the first time to provide gardening gifts to residents who show up to do the first half-hour of the event.

The Plant Sale Committee agreed to do the same thing for the upcoming May 31 plant sale, Day said.

“There’s all sorts of nice gardening items that we have to give out,” Day said. “There are kneepads for people who work in the garden, gardening tools, those little mats that people kneel on to avoid getting their jeans dirty.”

All money raised from the plant sale will go toward upgrades or repairs that the Bethel library needs.

“At the end of every year, Susan Parker hosts a breakfast for us, and we all discuss what parts of the library the money will go towards,” Day said.

Day said the Plant Sale Committee includes library Director Michelle Conroy, residents Norm Davis, Lenny Shaw,  and Susan and Scott Parker, and former Telstar High School teacher John Applin.

For more information, call Susan Parker at 824-4767 or Day at 824-2741, or stop by the library.

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