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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.
Counterpoint: At the library, there s more than one kind of diversity It should be a place of learning, not indoctrination.
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In Hey, Anoka County, listen and listen good, (June 27) columnist Jennifer Brooks writes about the need for conversations. Conversations about important subjects like George Floyd s murder, the Derek Chauvin sentencing, the Black Lives Matter movement, bigotry, gun violence, diversity. She declares that our differences have left us fractured and furious. Unable to unite against injustice.
Brooks angrily points to a memo from the management of the Anoka County Library, which apparently doesn t present diversity in way that suits her tastes. Brooks belittles the library leaders for encouraging diversity on a broader spectrum instead of hanging posters that celebrate Gay Pride or promote the Black Lives Matter organization.