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It had been 2019 the last time the Friends of Libraries and Literacy – and back then, known as Friends of the Library – had held their annual luncheon. About four-dozen members and volunteers showed up at the May 8 meeting, held in a Rio Rancho church.
From County officials being sworn-in, schools reopening and Intel's $3.5 billion upgrade to new companies and health clinics opening their doors, community events returning and County redistricting, there were multiple stories that the Rio Rancho Observer monitored and covered in 2021.
Independent Bookstore Day celebration It wasn’t Joe Driear’s own quote, but it seems appropriate for the City of Vision: “A town can’t be a proper town without a bookstore. But it’s also true that a bookstore can’t be a proper bookstore without a community.” Neil Gaiman is the originator of that quote, and many Rio Rancho residents have seemingly benefited from the FriendShop, opened and operated by Friends of Libraries and Literacy with a Jan. 28 ribbon-cutting. To celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 24, the Friends of Libraries and Literacy’s FriendShop bo...