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Fridley storm shelter doubles as learning hub and literacy center Nonprofit helped bring learning hub, programming to Fridley community. July 1, 2021 9:14pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Natividad Seefeld could not believe it when she answered the phone and the caller told her he wanted to start a library at the Park Plaza Cooperative, a small manufactured home park just off Hwy. 65 in Fridley. I thought it was a fake phone call, she said. Anybody calling from Washington and I wonder what did I do wrong.
The call came from Libraries Without Borders, a nonprofit with the mission of bringing knowledge and information to people in need. And with it came the offer to turn the diverse community s storm shelter into a learning hub by supplying Wi-Fi connections, books, art materials, computers and iPads.