Astoria Federal Gives $12.5K To Library Summer Program

On July 12, Carolyn Fostel, Astoria Federal Savings Bank Marketing Department assistant vice president and community relations marketing manager (l.), presented Queens Library Foundation Associate Director Peter Wayne (r.) with a $12,500 check supporting the library's Summer Reading Program. Leading the tour of the library, its facilities and Summer Reading Programs, was Pomonok Community Library Manager Sharon Banks (c.).

On Thursday, July 12, Carolyn Fostel, assistant vice president and community relations marketing manager for the Astoria Federal Savings Bank Marketing Department, based in Lake Success, presented a $12,500 check to Queens Library Foundation Associate Director Peter Wayne in support of the Queens Borough Public Library Summer Reading Program. Sharon Banks, community library manager at the library's Pomonok branch, led Wayne and Fostel on a tour of the branch library's Summer Reading Programs underway that day. They met Summer Reading Club youth as they read their books and participated in arts activities in the Pomonok branch Children's Room, while other children worked on bean crafts during a "Beyond Beans" session. Astoria Federal Savings' funding will support enrichment activities such as "Beyond Beans" and "End-of-Summer

Celebrations", where children, friends and family

celebrate their reading accomplishments. Astoria Federal Savings Bank has a tradition of community support in Queens.

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