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Thank you Escanaba City Council and citizens

EDITOR: This second letter of mine is just to personally thank the citizens of Escanaba and surrounding areas for really stepping it up and making it to the Escanaba City Council meeting to show support for the Escanaba Public Library. The fact that the people of Escanaba turned a board meeting into a standing room only, no parking places left, local news station taping just says so much about our wonderful city, employees, and most of all our citizens. That is the exceptionally great part about it, the fact that we made our voices peaceable heard on this particularly important issue. ...

Ukraine flags

EDITOR: Recent tours around Lakeshore Drive and Ludington Street reveal the blue and gold colors of Ukraine. The ribbons are fixed to most of the light poles along the path. Am I to understand that the City of Escanaba is endorsing some sort of political stance on the ongoing war in Ukraine? Was this installation approved by city officials? Was permission sought and received by whomever fixed these ribbons on the light posts? How long will they remain there? Will city dollars have to be spent to remove them? The war in Ukraine is an atrocity. However, the situation is not without ...

Library cut a mistake

EDITOR: For about two years I had the pleasure of being employed by the Escanaba Public Library. During my time there, I saw first hand the value that the library gave to the community it served. I watched people use the computers and internet access to find jobs, do schoolwork, and connect with family members. I helped cancer patients find books and websites that empowered them to make difficult decisions. I watched families bond over books and struggling teens find a safe place to decompress. It was a safe place for the seeking, lonely, and confused. It was a bright spot for the ...

Escanaba Public Library has much to offer

EDITOR: This is my little story covering how much the Escanaba Public Library has to offer the people of our community and how devastating it would be on me and other members of our community if the budget was cut. I am a 38-year-old physically disabled citizen and an avid reader. After a brutal attack on me while camping in Big Bear, California, I had to change a big majority of my hobbies. Fortunately, I discovered the Escanaba Public Library (EPL). First of all, the EPL is so very handicapped accessible. And so currently, this is where I choose to “hang out.” However, while ...

Please don’t cut library funding

To The Escanaba City Council; I attended the city council meeting that addressed funding of our library. I spoke at the meeting but did not have time to mention the importance of the library to the students I taught in Escanaba. I was a speech and language therapist for students from Escanaba, Gladstone and Rapid River enrolled in the Head Start Program. I used books, music, sign language and puppets to teach speech and language skills to these preschoolers. I had stars hanging from the ceiling of the therapy room in Escanaba. I told my students to reach for the stars. One of those ...

Save our library

EDITOR: As an Escanaba citizen I was absolutely horrified to hear about the proposed 40% reduction in funding to our library. I moved to Delta County in 2018 and have been heavily utilizing the library ever since. I check out novels, health and wellness books, career development resources, music, and movies that as a single mom, I would otherwise not be able to afford. My 6-year-old son has attended the children’s Lego, craft and story time programs, seasonal programs, received free vision screenings, snacks and books at these events. He has fallen in love with books and is reading ...