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Fontana Library and Resource/Technology Center: Halfway Home at the Holidays

FONTANA, CALIF. – Reggie King, chief executive officer for Young Homes, has recently pledged $1.5 million to the new Fontana Library and Resource/Technology Center capital campaign on behalf of Young Homes. “Give Today to Enrich Tomorrow,” a capital campaign established by Mayor Mark Nuaimi and the City Council, in partnership with the Fontana Library Foundation and the County of San Bernardino, was created to raise $20 million to provide public art, service enhancements, as well as offset certain construction costs. 

“We are pleased to have this role in supporting a better Fontana,” King said. This most recent gift brings the Fontana Library Foundation halfway to its goal, a little more than a year after the Library’s November 2005 official groundbreaking ceremony. Donations now total nearly $9.4 million.

"The donation from Young Homes is a generous response to our call to participate and serves as an important example to other regional business and community leaders of the incredible impact they can have in supporting the lifelong learning goals of our residents,” said Kathleen Fariss, director of development for the Library.

"The good news is that we are now halfway to our $20 million capital campaign goal. We’ve come along way in a short time, and although we have a ways to go yet, we are confident that there are a number of people and businesses out there who won’t want to miss out on the pleasure of standing on the front steps of the grand opening in the spring of 2008 knowing they’ve done their part to support this regional project,” explained Fariss.

Located in the Civic Center at 8473 Sierra Ave., the new, 93,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Library is under construction and will be a place where people can meet, study, read, attend programs, and engage in a variety of other lifelong learning opportunities. The Library will feature a children’s storytelling center, homework center, literacy center, career center, 330-seat auditorium, clock tower, young adult cyber cafe, coffee bar, and a local history and genealogy room.

To learn about the various ways you can be involved, pick up a brochure available in many City of Fontana offices and community buildings, or contact Kathleen Fariss at (909) 350-6586 or kfariss@fontana.org. You can also view the new regional Library and Resource/Technology Center construction in progress at www.fontanalibrary.org.

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