Quite a Day!

Thanks to the hundreds of you who came to yesterday's rally, I think the GVPL Board and the GVLRA are finally beginning to get the message. It's quite simple: It's Our Library, and we all want it unlocked. See today's TC for some of the coverage.

Big thanks too to Caelen Bright, her three children and all the other mothers and kids who descended on the GVLRA offices (#330 - 2950 Douglas Street) for a storytime sit-in. Watching a very rattled Ron Brunsdon, the GVLRA negotiator, on CHEK TV news try to evict them was priceless. Those of us who have only tried to reach Mr. Brunsdon by phone could take lessons from her.

But the day didn't end there. About 40 of us came back to the Central Library for the GVPL board meeting, where an equally rattled Chris Graham whacked his gavel and threatened to throw us out. A special thanks to the folks who staged a sit-in at the end of the public part of the meeting, and who only left when library CEO Barry Holmes promised that this outrageous lockout should be over in the next week or two.

Way to go, Victoria!