Fillmore County Journal - 7.6.15

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Monday, July 6, 2015

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Canton • Chatfield • Fountain • Harmony • Houston • Lanesboro • Mabel • Ostrander • Peterson • Preston • Rushford • Rushford Village • Spring Valley • Whalan • Wykoff

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New lending library in Fountain

Lanesboro Art in the Park

Erich Lippman and his daughter Sophia, age two and a half, of Winona, Minn. enjoyed Art in the Park 2015 in Lanesboro, Minn.

Lynn Larson and Joan Clement with the Fountain Study Club and Phillip and Michael Eickhoff with Eickhoff Construction stand next to the new lending library located in the Fountain city park. Photo by Barb Jeffers

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Little Lending Libraries have been popping up all over the United States in the past few years and the Fountain Study Club has added another to the list of locations. Joan Clement, with the Fountain Study Club, thought it would be a good idea for the city of Fountain to have a lending library to make books available for area children and adults. She talked with the rest

of the group and they all agreed that area residents could benefit from a lending library. Clement states “I thought it would be a good thing for us to do here in Fountain because we don’t have the bookmobile anymore and we don’t have a library” so this would give area residents the opportunity to obtain books without having to leave Fountain. Clement attended a Fountain council meeting and received approval to place the lending library in the city park near the Come Enjoy

By Barb Jeffers

beginning of the Root River State Trail. Phillip Eickhoff, owner of Eickhoff Construction, donated the materials and his labor to construct the charming lending library that he and his son Michael placed in the city park. Phillip says he spent a Saturday building the library and the Fountain Building Center donated the hinges. Clement says “Phillip has always been one of our donors” and the group appreciates his See LIBRARY Page 2 

Josiah McCallson, age 5, of Minneapolis, Minn. made a terrific Father’s Day tie at Lanesboro’s Art in the Park 2015. Photos by Barb Jeffers

summer music aT riverside on The rooT sunday, July 5Th • rooT river Jam 5pm-9pm wednesday, July 8Th • mike mcabee 5pm-9pm friday, July 10Th • michelle lynne 8pm-11pm sunday, July 12Th • bob bovee 5pm-9pm

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