Rally Salinas success
Woo hoo! The Salinas libraries have been saved! [LA Times article; registration or bugmenot required]
In a really limited fashion. For a limited time. Nonetheless, it's reason to kick up the sensibly-shod heels ...
Fundraisers came up with $500,000 after local government officials said they could no longer afford to pay for the facilities. The donations will keep three libraries in the financially strapped community open on a limited basis through December."The goal has been reached," Jan Neal, administrator of the library system, said today. "What it means is 26 hours of service per week."
If any of you wondered about the physical rally that took place at one of the Salinas libraries, Lincoln Cushing has a write-up about it. On a personal note, I stayed up and read from America, the textbook, around 1:15 a.m. and actually managed to get laughs from a weary, cold few. I like that think that my delivery was responsible for at least 2% of the overall humour.