Letter to the Editor: Vote yes for the library levy
Posted October 18, 2022 at 11:44 am by San Juan Update
We love libraries — especially ours here on the island. It has ably served our needs, but for the past number of years reality has hit: it’s limping, old, in need of repair, small and cramped, and goodness knows needs to be replaced.
How has it impacted our household? The Tech Tuesday “class” has come to the rescue countless times when we fumble with our computers. Staff have found the books, new and old, that we requested for our reading and learning pleasure, it has the DVDs of the myriad films we have missed over the years, and it has hosted speakers presenting an array of very interesting and intriguing issues.
Any increase in our property tax is far outweighed by the positive impact on us and what a new library and its extraordinary staff bring to our community. We urge you to go to the website for the library to learn more about our/your library and the levy.
Please join us in voting yes for the library levy.
Gay Graham and Ron Hanson
San Juan Island
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After reading this library-supporting write and the two that follow, there are common chords of education experience and appreciation which I can embrace for I, too, have been to college. I even worked in the library reference department while a student.
The day has arrived that demands voting with selective intelligence vs emotional yes-to-everything. This compares to the parent who says no more candy to the pleading children jumping for more, now is the time to say no, even to something my head and heart both beg for a yes vote–and the children will survive for another day.
My opinion has become everyone who wants the new library bad enough will seek grants and become self-philanthropic by contributing until their plead for new library comes to existence. Last, the library will be built at the tempo by those who want it built.
At St. David’s about 2000, Ginny McCormick wanted a new organ so badly she put a coffee can on the old organ labelled “Organ Fund” and the organ came in short order. The church didn’t go to the diocese for money, we collected from ourselves. Time for those who truly want a new library to initiate a serious finance campaign and pay their want by themselves, not a bond forcing islanders to pay for other peoples’ want.
Voting no is both wiser and also places the financial burden onto those who want the library.
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