Bears Find Perfect Home
Students from Shadow Ridge Middle School in Flower Mound, Texas, part of the Lewisville Independent School District, show off their knitted bears destined for PediPlace, a local facility that provides health care for area children who have no access to services due to economic, geographic, or cultural barriers. Each year, the students have a Teddy Bear Tea send-off when the bears are distributed. The program is the brainchild of librarian Deborah Svenson.
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Glenn, Glenn, Glenn. The library isn’t free! It’s paid for with tax money! Free public libraries are the result of the progressive movement to communally share books. The first public library was the Boston Public Library in 1854. Its statement of purpose: Every citizen has the right to access community-owned resources. Community-owned? That sounds just like communists. You’re a communist!
Comedian Jon Stewart, responding to television host Glenn Beck’s February 19 Conservative Political Action Committee keynote in which Beck asserted that he educated himself for free at the library, The Daily Show, February 22.