If you take one good thing and combine it with another good thing, there is decent chance that what results will be greater than the sum of its parts.

That is what the Dauphin Rotary Club hopes happens when it brings together two of its most popular events in the Rotary Book Sale and the Rotary Wine Tasting.

Organizer J.L. Guillas said there has been a lot of interest in the wine tasting being resurrected post-COVID and with the book sale being an extremely popular event in the community, the plans came together almost organically.

“With a busy schedule in the spring . . . we have lots of events and we thought okay how can we save on volunteer time,” Guillas said. “Then the idea came to double up the two events. Frankly just about everybody we tell it to, that we’re doubling it up, thinks it’s a great idea.”

The idea made even more sense given the fact plans were already in place to move the book sale to the Ukrainian Orthodox Hall, Guillas added.

“It’s going to be fun. That room is so big and I’ve kind of layed it out that we’re going to have the wine tasting around the outside and we’ll leave big alleys for people to walk and visit,” he said.

The book sale runs April 20 to 22 with sales from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, before reopening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the wine tasting. The event will return to the book sale only on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Check out this week's Total Market Coverage Dauphin Herald for more info on the event!