Fall Book Donation Day, sponsored by the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library, is scheduled to run, rain or shine, on Sunday, October 17, from noon to 5 pm in the rear parking lot of the C.H. Booth Library at 25 Main Street. The Friends welcome your donations of new and gently used books, DVDs, CDs, LPs, video games, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. Easy drop-off is available in the rear parking lot of the library where volunteers will help unload your donations and provide tax receipts. Please note that the Friends cannot accept encyclopedias, outdated reference and text books, travel guides, VHS tapes, Time-Life Series and Reader’s Digest books, magazines, or free pamphlets. Your donations are used by the Friends to raise money for the library in the big annual summer book sale, the Little Book Store, and in the pop-up book sale located on the second floor of the library. For questions and more information on Fall Book Donation Day, call 203-270-4537 or visit boothbooksale.org.

Thank you to an anonymous reader who identified themselves as “an old Newtowner” when they reached out over the weekend. The reader had a good suggestion concerning last week’s Way We Were, and one of the men featured in the photo. “I believe the name David Prown is the Newtown resident David Brown,” they wrote. “The ink [on the back of the photo] possibly faded with the B.” A closer inspection of the photograph does indeed show that the writing does in fact show David Brown. We stand corrected, and send our thanks to the anonymous reader.

We love hearing from our readers. That’s why we post a weekly question to our Facebook page every Wednesday. Check facebook.com/thenewtownbee weekly to answer a question. Responses may be used by The Newtown Bee for future coverage. The deadline to be included in The Newtown Bee’s coverage is always the following Monday at noon. This week we asked, “Who’s your hometown hero? And why?” We’ll round up answers for next week’s print edition, so make sure to join the conversation. The Newtown Bee is also on Twitter, at twitter.com/TheNewtownBee, and Instagram, at @thenewtownbee.

Belated birthday wishes to Rob Sibley. Some people spend their birthdays in quiet contemplation. If it’s a milestone birthday, there is often a party along with the observance. For his birthday last Sunday, Sandy Hook resident, town employee, and Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Captain Rob Sibley was very busy. Rob was at the fire company’s main station that morning by 7, along with two dozen additional SHVFR members, who then spent a few hours in New Haven for annual live burn training. The group returned to the Riverside Road firehouse around midday, cleaned their gear, put equipment away, and enjoyed a celebratory lunch together, complete with ice cream cake… until that was cut short by a call. Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder firefighters, Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and Newtown police officers were dispatched around 12:30 to the Lower Paugussett State Forest after a female hiker fell and broke her ankle. Following a successful rescue of that woman, Sandy Hook firefighters returned to their main station once again, when Rob was finally able to enjoy some of that birthday cake.

There will be something for everyone at the Saturday, October 16, T.J. Designs Annual Craft Fair at Reed Intermediate School, 3 Trades Lane, 10 am to 4 pm. Profits from the event will support Families United in Newtown (FUN). The fair will be set up on the main stage in the school’s cafetorium. Hand crafted jewelry, candles, soaps, and more will be available. The event supports autism awareness, support, and research.

Don’t forget next Saturday, October 16, is also the Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard annual home show at Blue & Gold Stadium, 12 Berkshire Road. This will be the 25th Annual Joseph P. Grasso Festival. The event is set to run from 6 to 9 pm. Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for children. Marching bands will take to the field to perform, with NHS’s Marching Nighthawks performing its show of the season “Everest.”

I’ll be marching out of here for now as long as you promise next week to... Read me again.