Vote yes for library district
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Editor,
To be sure, the Polson City Library offers a lot of cool, free stuff: wireless Internet access, public computers, scanners, copiers, newspapers, magazines and more.
Though many library users may be familiar with much of this, one under-appreciated and often overlooked service that the library provides is its community meeting room. Numerous community organizations and non-profit groups regularly make use of this important gathering place.
The Mission Mountain Audubon Society, for example, has utilized the library’s meeting room on a regular basis for the past 11 years. This club’s monthly educational programs, which are free and open to everyone, inform and entertain hundreds of people each year on a variety of topics including wildlife, conservation, outdoor adventure, scientific research, world cultures and, yes, birds.
And it’s plain to see that we have all benefited from these special programs which would not be possible without the library’s meeting room.
But there’s much more. Perhaps our library’s most important service is its invitation to lifelong learning. By promoting the love of reading – especially to youth – the library introduces everyone to a world of ideas that can only make us better as individuals and as a community.
Vote yes to create the North Lake County Public Library District.
Jim Rogers
Polson
