August 8, 2025
Lady Lake Library Donates Record Number of School Supplies Through Annual Initiative
By Kyle Coppola
Lady Lake Library Donates Record Number of School Supplies Through Annual Initiative
The Lady Lake Library has donated a record-breaking 26 backpacks filled with more than 1,000 school supplies to The Villages Elementary of Lady Lake, as part of its annual “School Supplies for Fines” initiative.
(Pictured left to right: Kourtney Fehr, Youth Library Assistant; Aly Herman, Library Director; and Mary Shaner, Bookkeeper for The Villages Elementary of Lady Lake.)
The program, which allows patrons to have their library fines forgiven in exchange for school supply donations, also erased $791.55 in fines this year. Collected items included notebooks, pens, glue, Clorox wipes, headphones, and tissues.
“The school was incredibly grateful and so are we,” says Library Director Aly Herman. “We’d like to thank our community for helping us give back in such a meaningful way.”
The donation marks the library’s largest contribution since the initiative began.
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
