Date: Fri 13-Dec-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: KAAREN

Quick Words:

business-Mini-mall

Full Text:

w/photo: Local Businesses PLan A "Mini-Mall"

A holiday shopping "mini-mall" featuring merchandise from about 20 local

businesses will be held from 8 am to 4 pm on Saturday, December 14, at Newtown

Health & Fitness Club, 23 Commerce Road.

Admission is free.

Shoppers will be able to buy merchandise ranging from personal care products

to crafts, art materials, floral arrangements and live greens, toys,

children's books, jewelry, sporting goods, and collectibles. The Friends of

the Cyrenius H. Booth Library will be selling new and slightly used books on

health, fitness and nutrition as well as recent fiction and mysteries, the

Sarah Booth Cookbook, Newtown Trails III and the new Entertainment 97 book.

In addition to merchandise, the businesses participating in Saturday's

mini-mall will donate raffle prizes. Money raised from the raffles, along with

fees the businesses paid to participate, will be donated to the library.

Dan Gaita, fitness director at the club, organized the event, which will take

place on the club's basketball court.

The club is one of 36 businesses and organizations that are helping the

Cyrenius H. Booth in its "10 Weeks to $10,000" fund-raising campaign to

finance the purchase of a new circulation desk, computer equipment and other

items for the children's department.