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1,000 Babies In Line

For Their First Books

Ronald Warner and Krista Spooner-Warner, of Fultonville, with their son Conlee, receive a hand-sewn tote and children’s book from Barbara Potter, who initiated the project on behalf of the Four County Library System and Better World Books. Looking on is Catherine Lane, a registered nurse in the Bassett Birthing Center.

COOPERSTOWN – Five local libraries and Better World Books (BWB), with a grant from the Four County Library System, will provide the parents of 1,000 babies born at Bassett Hospital with their new baby’s first book and a hand-sewn tote to carry it home in.

Barbara Potter, who works at Kinney Memorial Library in Hartwick, pulled the project together. She pooled funds from the Springfield, Cherry Valley, Huntington (Oneonta), Cooperstown (Friends of the Library) and Kinney libraries to buy material to make the totes and reached out to BWB. When BWB learned of the initiative, it offered to donate all 1,000 books.

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