Shopping site will assist local library

Article Date: Friday, December 14, 2007

By Kathleen Fariss, Fontana Herald News

Before you finish your holiday shopping, the Fontana Library Foundation wants you to know that they have the perfect way to complete all your holiday shopping in record time - without ever having to leave your computer.

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which features hundreds of grat stores including Best Buy, Macy's, Apple, Nike, eBay, the Gap, Target, and more. It's easy, just go to GoodShop, click on the store's logo and then shop as you normally would. You get the exact same prices and service as if you went directly to the store's website.

And, if you shop through GoodShop.com to buy gifts for your friends and family, the retailers you shop with will donate an average of 3 percent (and up to 37 percent) of all your purchases to the Fontana Library Foundation, which is currently raising funds to support the completion of the Lewis Library and Technology Center.

So now you can buy all the gifts on your shopping list while you give your community the greatest gift of all - the gift of lifelong learning.

GoodShop.com is easy to use. Simply go to www.goodshop.com, enter Fontana Library Foundation as your charity and hit "verify." Then, browse the lists of participating retailers. To purchase items, click on your selected store and shop away.

There are no strings attached. There are no forms to fill out - the retailers already know you are shopping for the Fontana Library Foundation just by you shopping through GoodShop.com. And, it doesn't cost you anything extra.

Please remember GoodShop.com when shopping this holiday season. It is a convenient way to buy gifts for your loved ones while simultaneously supporing your community. After all, this is the season of giving.

Set to open in spring 2008, the new, 93,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Lewis Library and Technology Center is currently 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 geneaology room.

To learn about the various ways you cna help support the library, call 350-6586.

(Kathleen Fariss is director of development for the Fontana Library Foundation.)