View Royal helps keep library afloat
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The View Royal Community Library is getting a little help from the Town.
Council approved $7,000 in grant-in-aid funding to help cover 2009 operating costs.
Strapped for cash after provincial funding was axed this summer, the volunteer organization is having to dip into savings to ensure books stay on the shelves. The library was to receive $15,914.
The province sited a tight budget, with a need to focus on health care and education. Reading centres lost all funding, while library funding was cut 22 per cent.
The 66-year-old organization gave up its library charter in 2008 under the verbal agreement the province would continue to fund it as a reading centre.
The Town has written to the government asking the decision be reconsidered, but no response has been received.
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