We Mill Creek citizens need to come together and vote yes for our library on Sept. 14. If the library bond does not pass then all Mill Creek citizens, which includes our children, will probably not have access to any community library. If we lose our precious community library we will also lose all, and I mean all, access to any Sno-Isle, King County or any other libraries.
With a yes vote, our community citizens will continue to be free to enter the library and to check out library material. Without your yes vote, another public good will be taken away from our lovely city. I have never lived in a city that didn’t have a library. I have fond childhood memories of visiting my local library with my brothers and parents. I remember my mother pointing to all the books and noting that without libraries our freedom is in jeopardy.
Democracy depends on every citizen having access to information, and since we are the greatest free nation in the world we have the ability to go to our library and read what we want to read. A community value I hold strongly is our freedom to have access to books. But I also think without libraries our community will lose its well-deserved reputation of being one of the finest places to live. What family would want to move into a community that does not value freedom to read? I submit to you that “a community without a library is like a book without pages.” Please stand up with the majority of our community and on Sept. 14 vote yes and save our Mill Creek Library.
Chuck Wright
Mill Creek
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