Sheila Fuchs, library manager at Dalton Gardens Elementary School, has been raving all week about her new books.

The school, along with all other schools in the Coeur d’Alene School District, received funds from the Coeur d’Alene Education Partnership’s annual benefit for public school libraries last fall.

“I get to spend time with some pretty marvelous kids during my work week, and last week we spent our time talking about about the meaning of community as well as introducing our brand-new books,” Fuchs said in a letter to The Press. “One definition of community that rings true in Coeur d'Alene is ‘a feeling of fellowship with others as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals.’ It means the world to our kids here at Dalton that people they have never met, or even seen, care enough about them and their education to hold fundraisers that, in turn, allow me to purchase books that they help choose. Besides having the best job ever, my heart is full in knowing that our community is behind our future leaders 100 percent!”

Fuchs wanted to give a special thanks to Lola Hagadone for putting on the CEP fundraiser.

“I spent all of last week speaking/teaching to every one of our classrooms — 16 in all — about how, without the generosity of Lola Hagadone and the general public from all walks of life, we simply couldn't have bought these books.”