<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Good morning, <br></div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday the Fruitport District Library played host to the West Michigan Avid Typewriters. They brought five typewriters for the kids to practice on. We had such a huge turnout that they brought out a sixth typewriter.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The kids loved learning this "new" technology and asked such fun questions that blew their minds like "where's the backspace button?"<br></div><div><br></div><div>We had one young man type up an entire short story about friends raccoon and turtle that stole a <b style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-family: Roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Lamborghini</b>. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The two workers were great with the kids and pleasant to deal with. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Because of the high turnout and only six typewriters our Friends provided arts and crafts before and after the kids were done on the typewriters. </div><div><br></div><div>Prices:<br></div><div><br></div><div>$50 to set up. <br></div><div>Five machines for two hours is $100 (they did not charge us for having to use the sixth typewriter)<br></div><div>They also charge $0.67 per mile for events outside of Grand Rapids<br></div><div>But they include a 50% discount on non-profits and libraries (not including mileage)<br></div><div><br></div><div>So for two hours we paid them just over $100. <br></div><div><br></div><div>It was a great program and the kids loved it. </div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_signature_below"><div id="" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" data-sigid="4712890000000011003"><div>Matt Lubbers-Moore<br></div><div>FDL Director<br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>