The tax proposal didn’t pass in
November. It wasn’t so much because
people were opposed at having or keeping the library – they’ve just been
opposed to paying for it. On March 30, the Myrtle Creek library
closed its doors. They remain locked as
some of us continue to fight for the cause.
I don’t know who is responsible for establishing the group, or just
where everybody came from. It was
announced that a group would be forming for a non-profit organization which we
had yet to name.
The first four meetings or so took
place at the school part of the Nazarene church. There were over 30 people who attended. Where were they when the library was looking
for a new board member to replace Marilyn?
The only ones I recognized were those on the library board – and though
it appeared some were on this new-founded committee, it didn’t appear that any
of the board members were solely in charge.
I know Julienne had contributed to that first meeting but she wasn't the
one conducting. I was impressed by so
many people with organizational skills that had brought us together for the same
cause - but still felt somewhat confused with where that leadership had even
come from.
We decided to call our organization Friends of the Myrtle Creek Library, but
ended up dropping “the”. Someone had
suggested that we have a bake sale not so much to raise money as it was to
raise awareness. The bake sale was on
Saturday. Richard and Jenna had gone to
Roseburg and I was without a car until about 2:30 or so. The bake sale had started at 11:00. I didn’t arrive until between 2:30 and 3:00.
Poor little Julienne. She’d been there all day – or so it
appears. The day started out typical of
last month, overcast and cool in the morning and didn’t warm up until 4:00 –
which is when the bake sale ended. I
said Jenna and I could stay if they
needed us to.
Julienne was wrapped in Jeanne’s
coat. She’d been freezing all morning
. Jeanne took Julienne home and Jenna
and I stayed with Bob for the last hour of the bake sale. Jenna was a natural saying “Hi” to each passerby
and doing her best to sell the remainder of the baked goods. Bob and I were talking about my most recent
class.
Funny how when I started my Philosopy
class, I thought “eww. . .” and it turned out to be one of my favorite
classes. My economy class has also been
a lot more enjoyable than what I had predicted – especially after eight weeks
of feeling lost on a foreign language and loathing the teaching methods of and
not relating to my instructor at all.
I had done some research for this
week’s topic. thought I would try a new approach for my assignment and had a
large variety of references. I can’t
believe how smoothly my thoughts flowed and how I was able to segue one topic
into the other. It was great. I stopped at 546 words thinking I would
finish up sometime today with the other 54 plus. (600 are required) I actually
did find a way to finish, but not in a way I would have expected.
Yesterday, after I walked into the
courthouse (as we no longer meet at the Nazarene and I think the city council
is just more convenient for everybody involved) Bob handed me a book he had
written. He had even marked a page where
I could find reference to go with my topic.
I think it’s really awesome – not only does it add value for my
assignment but answers a few more questions about the history of Douglas County
- Myrtle Creek in particular.
Next week this class will be over and
I will reveal this week’s two topics and share my posts and assignments.
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