Now that fall is on the way, it’s time to stock up on reading material for the long winter nights ahead. The Wellborn community library is having a huge “book and bake sale” on Nov. 5, but your help is needed right now to make this special event a big success.

The library (located at the Wellborn United Methodist Church on Route 137 north of downtown) is actively soliciting donations of books for the sale. Organizers hope to have thousands of books available on many subjects, but to make that possible, they are actively soliciting used books right now. It doesn’t matter whether you have a dozen or hundreds of books, the library needs them.

Please consider cleaning out your bookshelves and donating hardbound or paperback books (books on any subject, fiction and non-fiction, but no encyclopedias, please). Books can either be dropped at the library (located in the church fellowship hall) between 9 and noon on Tuesdays or Saturdays, or pickup can be arranged at no cost.

At the same time as the book sale, there will be a bake sale with all kinds of goodies available at low prices. Coffee will also be available for browsers. The book sale will be from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 5, and you can visit the Wellborn community blueberry pancake breakfast just down the road, then come to the book sale.

If you have books to donate and would like to have them picked up, call librarian Kathy Lyons at 386-365-3418 (cell phone) or Everett Parker at 386-754-8524. Proceeds from the book and bake sale will benefit the library and the Wellborn United Methodist Church and its outreach programs. Call either number above for additional information about this first time (and hopefully, annual) event.