CMPL Foundation, Inc.

05/30/2023

Getting readying cooking for our May High Tea for my DAR chapter on Saturday;

03/15/2023

06/22/2021

If you have been down Michigan Avenue in Orofino these last few days, you can’t miss the landscaping project at our library expansion! Our volunteer planner and worker, Ron Hanes, is in need of some able-bodied helpers at the site but so far we haven’t found any since we had the marvelous aid which the young men from the Challenge Academy Provided last week . If any people can help please call Jo Moore at the HighCountry Inn for more info! We are really excited and want to finish in time for late summer planting!

10/04/2020

Surprise Visit by NYTimes rated Author

What began as a simple overnight reservation at the High Country Inn turned into a memorable experience for a trio enjoying dinner together at this rural Bed and Breakfast. Cleo Castellanos and Jo Sharrei were having dinner with hostess Jo Moore when the expected guest arrived, with a take-out dinner in hand to eat at the inn. The guest was invited to join the three at the dining table, and there ensued a most interesting conversation among the group. Upon learning that the three having dinner were all associated with the library in Orofino (CMPL) the overnight guest introduced himself by saying that he was deeply interested in libraries and librarians, as his mother had begun a library in a defunct filling station in his very small town in Kentucky. He went on to say that the library had grown until it was the most impressive building in his tiny hometown. In their conversation, the guest revealed that he is an author, and avid reader Cleo thought that she recognized his name. When she arrived back home, she found that she had saved an article about this gentleman from the New York Times. His name is Fenton Johnson and it turns out that he has written seven books, both fiction and nonfiction, and his latest . AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY, Solitude and the Creative Life, was reviewed by the NY Times. With further research, Cleo discovered his biography, which includes the many awards Fenton Johnson has been given by several well-known literary institutions, including the NY Times,
The following morning following breakfast, Mr.Johnson told Jo Moore that he would trade his night's stay at the High Country Inn for a gift of $500 to the library foundation, which Jo promptly agreed to. She answered that she would be happy to accept a foundation gift in exchange for making his bed herself! They then traveled to the library and had a tour of the new expansion project and Fenton announced that his gift would be a memorial to his mother, who had started him on his path of avid reading! For more information on this award-winning author, visit https://www.fentonjohnson.com/about/bio/ or https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/books/review/center-beauty-solitude-fenton-johnson.html

10/04/2020

Now that the goal for Phase 4 has been met for the expansion project for Clearwater Memorial Public Library, the foundation board is pleased to announce that a new account had been set up to provide the new furnishings and portable bookcases, chairs, and other equipment which will be needed when the library readies for its grand opening, planned for the end of 2020.

Due to a lot of cost saving measures in the expansion project, it appears that the old portion of the library can be completely renovated with new flooring, walls, fresh painting, and shortened bookshelves,all of which were not in the original architectural plans. Furnishings were also not figured in the first four phases of construction. To make the project complete, an additional plan for comfortable reading and relaxing has been made, and the first contribution to open the new fund was actually made by some guests of the High Country Inn just recently. When learning that the plan called for four new reading chairs which could be kept safely cleaned, the guest family gave Jo Moore, owner of the inn, a check for $500 for this purpose. The account has been set up at P1FCU, and contributions are now being accepted. It will take several thousand dollars to complete this latest goal of a totally finished project;a modern library that Orofino can be proud of for decades to come! To make gifts for this purpose, please call Jo Moore at 28-476-7570 or mail a check to CMPLFoundation, 139 High Country Lane, Ahsahka, ID 83520,

10/04/2020

04/27/2020

Support as of 04/27/2020:

Phase 1 complete!

Phase 2 complete!

Phase 3 met at $182,200.00 !!!

Phase 4 to date: $72,109.08 (Goal: $100,107.00—just $30,000 to go!)