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Student council installs ‘Little Free Libraries’

Dennis Dalman by Dennis Dalman
June 25, 2015
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Student council installs ‘Little Free Libraries’

contributed photo Those who participated in the Free Little Library project for Sartell are Sartell Middle School students (left to right) Faith Wannark, Hannah Congdon, Kalley Vande Vrede, Alex Nemeth, Johnny Nemeth, Zach Nemeth, Will Nemeth and Janagan Ramanathan. This photo was taken by the office of Nemeth Orthodontics, where one of the library’s was installed.

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by Dennis Dalman

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Thanks to the Sartell Middle School Student Council, Sartell now has two “Little Free Libraries” and will soon have a third.

Little Free Libraries were started by Todd Bol of Hudson, Wis. in 2009. The “libraries” are little, indeed, about the size of a large birdhouse. The concept behind the libraries is that people can walk up to them, then take a book and leave a book. Most often the libraries are placed on residential yards in neighborhoods. A typical “library” can hold about 30-40 books. Since Bol started the concept, it has spread throughout the world.

As a “WE School,” the SMS council decided during the last school year to emphasize projects promoting literacy. The WE School program was begun by the International Free the Children organization. Each WE School is expected to initiate community-service projects each year – one locally and one internationally.

For its international program, the SMS council donated books to the Books for Africa organization. For its local literacy-promotion effort, it decided to install three Little Free Libraries.

The libraries were installed at Nemeth Orthodontics in Sartell and in the Celebration neighborhood on 21st Avenue N. A third one has yet to be placed.

The library project was made possible by donations from the St. Cloud Noon Optimist Club, CentraSota Dental and the hands-on woodworking skills of SMS staff members Luke Miller and Lyle Olson.

contributed photo This is the Free Little Library installed recently outside of the Nemeth Orthodontics office in Sartell.
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This is the Little Free Library installed recently outside of the Nemeth Orthodontics office in Sartell.
contributed photo Those who participated in the Free Little Library project for Sartell are Sartell Middle School students (left to right) Faith Wannark, Hannah Congdon, Kalley Vande Vrede, Alex Nemeth, Johnny Nemeth, Zach Nemeth, Will Nemeth and Janagan Ramanathan. This photo was taken by the office of Nemeth Orthodontics, where one of the library’s was installed.
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Those who participated in the Little Free Library project for Sartell are Sartell Middle School students (left to right) Faith Wannark, Hannah Congdon, Kalley Vande Vrede, Alex Nemeth, Johnny Nemeth, Zach Nemeth, Will Nemeth and Janagan Ramanathan. This photo was taken by the office of Nemeth Orthodontics, where one of the library’s was installed.
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Dalman was born and raised in South St. Cloud, graduated from St. Cloud Tech High School, then graduated from St. Cloud State University with a degree in English (emphasis on American and British literature) and mass communications (emphasis on print journalism). He studied in London, England for a year (1980-81) where he concentrated on British literature, political science, the history of Great Britain and wrote a book-length study of the British writer V.S. Naipaul. Dalman has been a reporter and weekly columnist for more than 30 years and worked for 16 of those years for the Alexandria Echo Press.

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