1. Welcome to ……… Lincoln City Libraries’ Volunteer Appreciation Celebration April 18, 2010 We are glad you’re here !

2. Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. ----Mother Teresa

3. Everyday is Volunteer Appreciation Day ! Thank you ! (English)

4. Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese Proverb

5. Dankeschön ! (German)

6. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

7. Dêkuji (Czech)

8. Don't ever question the value of volunteers. Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals. --anonymous

9. Grazie (Italian)

10. Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. ---Aristotle

11. Obrigado (Portuguese)

12. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr.

13. Pilamayaaloh Lakota

14. There is no better exercise for your heart, than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. ----Bernard Meltzer

15. Miigwech (Ojibwe)

16. You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. --Winston Churchill

17. Merci Beaucoups-(French)

18. The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~Gandhi

19. XieXie-(Mandarin Chinese)

20. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle Scottish Essayist

21. Danyavad-Hindi

22. I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. ~Albert Schweitzer

23. Esker mila (Basque)

24. 25 Years 500 hours Volunteer Milestones-2009 Most hours 5 years 10 years 15 years

25. 10 Years of Service Norma Cochran- Bennett Martin Public Library

26. 15 years of service……. Doris O’Donnell-Gere Branch

27. 500 hours of Service Angie Sullivan-Bennett Martin Public Library

28. Most Hours of Service, 2009 JoAnn Thomas-Gere Branch

29. Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. --David Thomas

30. To all of our volunteers, Lincoln City Libraries offers our sincerest thanks. Ù rúèsé Hvalalepa Domo arigato Dankeschön Enkosikakhulu Asante Nagyonköszönöm Tack såmycket Dziekuje Takkfyrir Thank you ! Pilamayaaloh Salamat Cám ơn Tashakkur