2007.06.29
What's good for Gainsboro library is good for its community
For Saturday: A Texas consultant more than a decade ago failed miserably in recognizing the importance of branch libraries to Roanoke's citizens. Think what would have happened had the city ignored the citizen uproar and followed his 1996 recomendation to close some of the five branches that put library offerings within residents' close reach. In part, "the heart" of the historic Gainsboro community - the Gainsboro branch library - would have stopped beating. But plans for a $1.1 million Gainsboro library renovation, unveiled Thursday, give people hope that their communities, and what helps sustain them, do matter.
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