Spring has sprung! 

It’s time to see what’s growin’ at the library. 

Locally Growin’, the fundraising campaign at Great River Regional Library (GRRL), runs Friday, March 1, through Saturday, March 30, 2024.

GRRL’s Locally Growin’ campaign keeps donations 100 percent within the branch library of the donor’s choosing. Each library selects a specific “wish” item and a campaign goal. Over $28,000 was raised around the region in 2023 to support a wide variety of goals. Each library’s goal is unique and focuses on its community’s interests and needs.

GRRL’s southern library locations are raising money for the following this year:

• Kimball wishes for a visit from a petting zoo;

• Becker wishes to add audio read-along books, Try It Yourself pickle ball kits, and program toys to their collection;

• Big Lake wishes to add audio read-along books to their collection;

• Annandale wishes to add audio read-along books to their collection;

• Buffalo wishes to add audio read-along books, sensory calming kits, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) kits to their collection ;

• Monticello wishes to add audio read-along books to their collection;

• Elk River wishes to add Play2Learn kits to their collection;

• St. Michael wishes to add audio read-along books and Play2Learn kits to their collection;

• Cokato wishes to add audio read-along books to their collection;

• Howard Lake wishes to add a new collection for the new library;

• Rockford wishes to add audio read-along books and sensory calming kits to their collection;

• Delano wishes to add audio read-along books and sensory calming kits to their collection.

These are just a few of the libraries’ wishes across GRRL’s six-county region. Stop by to learn what is growin’ at your local library! One can learn more about the Locally Growin’ campaign and make a difference for one’s library by giving online at https://griver.org/library-news/locally-growin-2024.

 Great River Regional Library (GRRL) provides library services at 32 public libraries and one to-go system in Benton, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd and Wright Counties. GRRL2GO is a locker system that allows one to pick up items at the Sartell Community Center. GRRL supplies the residents of Central Minnesota with nearly one million books, CDs and DVDs, 250 public computers, and information services.