SECRET VALENTINE 2023

Are you a business or organization located in Hyde Park, Vermont?
In the spirit of creating community connection and positive energy, the Lanpher Library invites you to join in: SECRET VALENTINE 2023!
How does it work?
Your business, or organization chooses a point person to fill out the participation form (below) and return it to the Lanpher Library by January 31st.
Each business/organization who enters will have their name put in a random draw to be given a SECRET VALENTINE of another participating business/organization. We'll let you know who your Secret Valentine is on February 3rd.
Then, on or around Tuesday, February 14th, you can surprise your SECRET VALENTINE with a special gift, or offering of community support and care. It can be as simple as mailing a card, or as elaborate as your imagination can go!
or call 802-888-4628
Click below for the sign up form, or you can just email the information from the form to hydeparklibrary@yahoo.com
secret_valentine__2023_sign_up_form.docx
In the spirit of creating community connection and positive energy, the Lanpher Library invites you to join in: SECRET VALENTINE 2023!
How does it work?
Your business, or organization chooses a point person to fill out the participation form (below) and return it to the Lanpher Library by January 31st.
Each business/organization who enters will have their name put in a random draw to be given a SECRET VALENTINE of another participating business/organization. We'll let you know who your Secret Valentine is on February 3rd.
Then, on or around Tuesday, February 14th, you can surprise your SECRET VALENTINE with a special gift, or offering of community support and care. It can be as simple as mailing a card, or as elaborate as your imagination can go!
- Any size business/organization can join as long as you're located in Hyde Park. (small farm, bigger businesses, non-profit organizations...)
- All will go in to the same random drawing, but if you choose on your sign up form, we'll make sure we match you with a business, or organization of similar size.
- You don't have to do anything expensive or outrageous, just a gesture of support, care, and community love. Show your community spirit!
or call 802-888-4628
Click below for the sign up form, or you can just email the information from the form to hydeparklibrary@yahoo.com
secret_valentine__2023_sign_up_form.docx
The Hyde Park Community Wind Phone is Here at the Library

"After the death of his cousin in 2020, a man named Itaru Sasaki built a phone booth in his garden as a way to deal with his grief. Although the phone was disconnected, Sasaki believed his words rode the wind to his loved one. A year later ,when a tsunami struck his coastal town of Otsuchi, thousands of mourners flocked to the phone booth to connect to their missing loves ones."
The idea of a wind phone resonated with people and they have begun popping up all over the world, including ours here at the Lanpher Library, which is funded by a grant from the Vermont Department of Libraries and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Hyde Park Wind Phone is a beautiful place for those who need a silent listener.
Sometimes we have words that need to come out...we are grieving, we need to connect with our higher power, or somebody we've lost, sometimes feelings can be too much to hold...
Use this brave space to have an intentional and planned connection to a loved one or to the energy all around you. Simply pick up the phone receiver and talk. We invite you to send your words into the wind.
Please help us keep your Wind Phone safe and clean.
The idea of a wind phone resonated with people and they have begun popping up all over the world, including ours here at the Lanpher Library, which is funded by a grant from the Vermont Department of Libraries and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Hyde Park Wind Phone is a beautiful place for those who need a silent listener.
Sometimes we have words that need to come out...we are grieving, we need to connect with our higher power, or somebody we've lost, sometimes feelings can be too much to hold...
Use this brave space to have an intentional and planned connection to a loved one or to the energy all around you. Simply pick up the phone receiver and talk. We invite you to send your words into the wind.
Please help us keep your Wind Phone safe and clean.

Stop by the Lanpher Library to fill up your water bottles at our new Water Bottle Filling Station that we intsalled with a grant through Green Up Vermont, sponsored by Chittenden Solid Waste District and the VT Agency of Natural Resources. (Thank You!)
If you don't have a water bottle with you...don't buy a single use plastic bottle! Buy one of these re-usable aluminum bottles for $5 and fill it up!
Learn more about Green Up Vermont's initiative to reduce the amount of single use plastics, and see if you can recognize anyone in the WCAX piece:
https://www.wcax.com/2022/06/28/green-up-vermont-tries-new-method-reduce-plastic-waste/
If you don't have a water bottle with you...don't buy a single use plastic bottle! Buy one of these re-usable aluminum bottles for $5 and fill it up!
Learn more about Green Up Vermont's initiative to reduce the amount of single use plastics, and see if you can recognize anyone in the WCAX piece:
https://www.wcax.com/2022/06/28/green-up-vermont-tries-new-method-reduce-plastic-waste/
Borrow Ebooks and Downloadable Audio
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![]() The Lanpher Memorial Library is more than just books. Try this calculator from Syracuse University to find out the true value of the Lanpher Library!
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Lanpher Memorial Library P.O. Box 196/141 Main St., Hyde Park, VT 05655
802-888-4628 hydeparklibrary@yahoo.com
802-888-4628 hydeparklibrary@yahoo.com