Load 1 of 2 from Time Colonist book sale charity day!
The Little Free Library at the Yates Street Community Garden is not quite a year old, so this May was our first time taking advantage of the TC-Day-After-The-Book-Sale-Day. Thanks to Susan and the volunteers we knew exactly what to expect and everything ran like a charm. Well-sorted books meant it was easy to concentrate on the types our users seem to enjoy: heavy on cooking, travel, mysteries and of course, gardening. Living next door to the library, we are just a few minutes drive to the curling club, so it was easy to do two trips filling every available inch of the SUV each time. Lugging the books into the elevator and then downstairs to their storage in my office, definitely took longer, but taking books by the boxes made them easy to stack. We’re a high-use library, and almost two months since the sale, we’ve definitely made a serious dent in the book stack but I’m certain we still have enough to get us through the heavy summer reading season and well into fall.
Well stocked!
If you haven’t been by our library recently (Yates Street Community Garden LFL between Cook and Vancouver), you won’t have yet seen the just completed mural by Métis artist Jesse Campbell (www.campbellvisualarts.com). A collaborative project between the garden, the condo at 1030 Yates, the Victoria Downtown Residents’ Association, and the City, it truly makes this a place where people enjoy gathering.
The just completed “Sower” by Jesse Campbell keeping on eye on the library!
Guest Author: Wendy Magahay
Yates Street Community Garden LFL is located between Cook and Vancouver, on the LFL map here
