Penny-A-Page Fundraising Celebration

Lake Sunapee Bank wrapped up its year long “Penny-A-Page” fundraising campaign for local libraries by bringing an armored truckload of pennies to the Richards Free Library in Newport, NH on Lincoln's Birthday, Friday, February 12. The more than 125,000 pennies represented the amount raised by children who read books over the last year and were sponsored at the rate of one penny for every page read. In addition, library patrons and Lake Sunapee Bank and its First Brandon Bank Division customers donated change at collection receptacles set up at libraries and bank branches.

Lake Sunapee Bank matched the amount raised in the libraries and bank branches. Newport Branch Manager Terri Spanos, presented Librarian Andrea Thorpe with a check for the amount raised in Newport for the Richards Free Library.

Penny-A-Page was created by Lake Sunapee Bank in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the introduction of the Lincoln bicentennial pennies. A reading program to support local libraries was chosen because of President Lincoln's background as an avid, self-directed reader. Libraries and bank branches in 10 communities participated including Newport, Claremont, Newbury, New London, Andover, Peterborough and Hillsboro in New Hampshire and Brandon, Woodstock and Pittsford in Vermont.