Image: Ryder Lake Farmers' Institute Facebook page / Ryder Lake Farmers' Institute wrote on Facebook this week that it will receive grant funding of nearly $4,000 from the City of Chilliwack to do a new notice board on Elk View Road and install a Little Free Library. The Little Free Library has since been installed.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Ryder Lake Little Free Library

Ryder Lake gets its own Little Free Library, will update noticeboard on Elk View Rd.

Apr 1, 2023 | 7:55 AM

CHILLIWACK — They’re a nice addition to any neighbourhood, especially when volunteers and users alike replenish or donate materials to keep them afloat.

Ryder Lake Farmers’ Institute wrote on Facebook this week that a Little Free Library book-sharing box has been installed next to the noticeboard on Elk View Road as part of a City of Chilliwack Grass Roots grant.

The goal of the Grass Roots grant is to reinvigorate neighbourhoods or make public areas more usable and aesthetic. The Grass Roots grant program offers 50/50 matching funding to local neighbourhood groups to a maximum of $4,000.

“Please do just take a book – you don’t have to return it! If you have books you’d like to share, please add them to the Library,” Ryder Lake Farmers’ Institute wrote on its Facebook page this week.

On March 24, Ryder Lake Farmers’ Institute shared a picture of Mayor Ken Popove awarding Ryder Lake residents a grant of $3,880, signed by the mayor and the director of finance, Glen Savard.

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“We have been awarded a Grass Roots Grant of nearly $4,000 by the City of Chilliwack to replace the noticeboard on Elk View Rd.,” the Facebook post read. “This is a matching grant to cover the cost of materials if volunteers put in their time on the project too. This grant is for projects on City land, and they have committed to help with cleaning up the ditch and with the design of a panel with visitor information (see the rough mockup image of a new noticeboard). We will also be installing a new Little Free Library. We’ll be calling for some volunteers to help with building the new structure and figuring out the content on the information panel!”

Image: Ryder Lake Farmers’ Institute Facebook page / Ryder Lake is due to get a new noticeboard along Elk View Road and a Little Free Library.

There are over 150,000 of these libraries installed worldwide – see https://littlefreelibrary.org/ for more information.

by Mike Vanden Bosch

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