Letters to the editor

Vote for library levy

As a child growing up I was incredibly fortunate, along with my brothers and sisters and cousins, to have an opportunity to spend all summer visiting with my grandparents in Yellow Bay.

Part of the weekly routine my grandparents had to keep this brood under control was to have my grandfather drive all the older kids to Polson every Tuesday all summer long. I am sure my grandmother, mother, and aunt were thrilled to have the kids gone for a few hours.

We kids were dropped off at the library where we stocked up on our adventures for the week, and then we made a stop at the Lake City Bakery, where we spent our allowance for the day, before heading back to the cabin.

My lifelong devotion to reading stems from the wonderful books I was able to check out of the Polson Library.

July 8 through 27 residents of Polson and north Lake County will have an opportunity to vote, by mail-in a ballot, on a proposal to establish a library district, which would provide sustainable operational funding for the Polson Library.

We are fortunate to have a high quality library in Polson that affords the public free access to a wide variety of written materials like the books I read as a child and continue to read as an adult, especially the ones I get on interlibrary loan, as well as things like free Internet-connected computers, reading programs and services vital to the intellectual health and development of our community.

It is important to everyone in our community that these services continue benefiting all users. This requires a sustainable, equitable and dedicated source of funding.

Without this mill levy, we will lose many of our current services.

Voters, please join me in approving a mill levy to provide this funding and support continuation of all of our library services by voting yes.

By the way, it's not too late to sign yourself or your kids and grandkids up for the summer reading program. The adventures await you!

Additional information on the proposed levy is available on the library's website, http://polsonpubliclibrary.org.

Toni Krebsbach Young

Lake County