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Community bag sale is Oct. 27; fill a bag for only $2 MONROE - The Pine Tree Elementary School is gathering coats and other winter-weather clothing items for the school’s third annual winter outerwear collection project. The school is collecting new or “gently used” coats, boots, scarves, gloves, snow pants, snow suits, sweaters and sweatshirts in both children and adult sizes through Monday, Oct. 26 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The next day, Oct. 27, the school will host its community outerwear event from 4 to 8 p.m, in the school’s cafeteria, where residents can fill a bag with winter wear for the entire family for only $2. All proceeds will benefit Pine Tree families in need during the upcoming holiday season, school officials said. Three Pine Tree students have become involved in the collection of outerwear through the efforts of their parents. Jillian Laskorski said she likes helping people by donating the clothes she doesn’t need; Erykah Mann-Beaulieu said she’s glad she will help someone be warm; and Victoria Borowski said she’s happy to help people by giving away her clothes that no longer fit. The Pine Tree Book Fair Family Night will also take place the same evening from 6 to 8 p.m., giving families the chance to attend both events. It will also be held again on Thursday, Oct. 29. “In the first week, we collected more than 700 pieces,” said Karen Brock, assistant principal. “Each day, more and more boxes are filled.”

Purchased through $33,800 Gates Foundation grant MONROE - The Monroe Free Library has installed six new public computer terminals through a $33,800 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Opportunity Online Grant Project. The grant was the largest awarded to any RCLS member library, library officials said, and it has been used over the past been the last two years to acquire seven terminals, a color laser printer and a wireless Internet router. As a condition of the matching grant, the library contributed 37 percent of the funds. The library has increased the total number of public terminals from five to 18 in two years, according to library officials. Additionally, the library is the only public location within the village to offer free Wi-Fi capabilities, officials said. The new Hewlett-Packard terminals run Microsoft Windows, and are equipped not only with Internet access but with Microsoft’s Office software suite (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher). They are available to anyone with an RCLS library card. “This is the second time this decade that we’ve seriously increased the computing power under the roof thanks to the generosity of a Gates grant,” said Carol Bezkorowajny, the library’s head of circulation, automation and technical services. In 2000, the library’s first public PCs were bought with money from the Gates Foundation. The library offers four instructional computer classes every month, and this year began offering classes on specific Internet training, including finding jobs, shopping for bargains, and selling in auctions online. Call 782-4411 for more information.