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YOUR RAFFLE TICKET CAN WIN THIS POSTER – Throughout the years Georgia Powers sold lots of raffle tickets. In 2006 she offered a chance to win this Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Poster in support of the La Conner library, her son Paul Duran recounts. This poster hung in her Shelter Bay home. – Photo courtesy of Violet Zeug
When Georgia Powers and her late husband, Ray, first moved to La Conner in the 1980s, one of the first things they did was search for the local library.
What they found was more than a building.
They discovered a calling, one that Powers, an avid reader, will continue to embrace even as she relocates to southern California to be near family, having undergone a series of leg surgeries.
From more than a thousand miles away, and as she regains strength following those operations, Powers plans to keep her foot in the door, so to speak.
The longtime literacy advocate, who has served on the La Conne...
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