Edward George Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873), an English novelist, wrote this for the first time in 1839. He wrote, “Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.”

Thank you for using your newspaper to share whats in my heart Fran DuChamp

To all Freemasons–thank you.

I have also been following this issue. I do not understand why a county-owned facility (Pollock Pines Library,) was re-carpeted with DONATED funds. It seems to me that any upgrades or maintenance should be accomplished with funding from the County, which has a budget for facilities maintenance and repairs.

If the concerns about new carpet were that of children sitting on the old or dirty carpet, I believe that a colorful, kid-friendly area rug would be a much better option. As a teacher who is passionate about teaching reading, I understand that having children close to me during reading time is very important. The area rug has designated boundaries and keeps children close to the reader and helps them to focus and interact with the reader and the book. It is the job of the reader to keep the children engaged and excited about reading. This has to be done up close!

Another issue I have is about the children’s art work. At one time, children’s art was on the walls of that library. I am appalled that anyone would discard children’s art! One of the biggest roles for libraries is to get children excited about reading and libraries. Seeing their own work displayed–published–on the walls of a public place, such as a library, gives children a sense of their value. They LOVE to share their art and will come back again and again just to show someone an art piece on the wall. Displaying their work on library walls gives those children a sense of pride and ownership, thus creating this type of relationship with the library. The more a child is in a library, the more books they will have an opportunity to explore.

It just seems to me that somewhere the sense of “public library” has gotten lost. It is a shame.

Unfortunately, money is being wasted and this is the tip of the iceberg.

County is wasting Bucko Bucks on its own facilities. BOS is OUT to LUNCH!

I did discover something else…The meeting at 1 p.m., Monday, January 28, 2013 is calling for proposed changes to corporate bylaws of the corporate friends of the library/El Dorado County…but let s look at article lX, chapters in areas served by branch libraries, preamble

current wording: lets cut to the chase…” Budgets must be submitted and approved by the Corporate Board at the beginning of each each year, with any additional expenses in excess of $1000.00 to be pre-approved by the corporate board of directors.”

Proposed changes …in excess of $5000.00 to be pre-approved…but not yet.

I like the word ” pre-approved” Fran
I trust the President of the corporate FOL—and he had no clue

again thanks for coming up fran