The Catskill Chronicle

Story and photos by Leni Santoro

On Saturday, August 29, Kayli Green and her friends were standing outside the Livingston Manor Free Library holding a bake sale for the library.

Kayli Green is in the 6^th grade at Livingston Manor School. She loves going to the library and she wanted to make sure that the library has all it needs to serve the public when it comes to books, bookshelves or just keeping the flower beds looking good.

This summer Kayli wrote a letter to the library asking them to allow her to have a bake sale; with all donations going to the library.

What made her do this?

“I’ve been coming to the library for years and years,” said Kayli. “I like taking books out of here and wanted to help so I came up with the idea to have a bake sale.”

Kayli and her friend Aryanna Staudt sought donations of baked goods from friends and family and in fact did so well on that front that there were cookies, cakes and pies enough to sell both outside and inside the library.

Rene Green, Kayli’s mom said that her daughter had been thinking originally of a more global cause such as “Save the Whales,” but she suggested something a little closer to home. “She came up with the library,” said Rene. “We frequent it [the library] often and I thought that it was a good idea.”

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