The community’s newest Little Free Library has been installed in St. Michael, courtesy of blogger and resident Samara Postuma and Alpha Bits cereal.
Located on Lincoln Drive near the parking lot at the Rec Center, the new cubby is ready for visitors.
The project also involves STMA Rotary, STMA Schools Alpha Bits reached out to various influential bloggers and community members to have the libraries put up to help promote literacy and a love of reading in communities across the nation. In total, they sponsored 30 Little Free Libraries. Other Minnesota libraries include one in Robbinsdale, St. Paul, Lakeville and Zimmerman.
“Post Alpha Bits contacted me a few months back to gauge my interest in helping put a new Little Free Library up in my community,” Postuma said and wrote via her blog. “I don’t think there can ever be too many. I think every kid wants to live within walking distance of a place to share and exchange books.”
Alpha Bits provided the library and 10 books to get started, students at STMA High School painted it and STMA Rotary will maintain the library on an annual basis as they do the other Little Free Libraries throughout the city.
St. Michael and Albertville now have a host of Little Free Librarys, thanks in large part to STMA Rotary. The organization ordered the first handful of boxes, which can be found in Walnut Park and Highwoods Park in St. Michael, along 57th Street in Albertville, and now the Rec Center, among other locations. Rotary keeps the little boxes maintained, and pulls them down in the winter months to preserve them for the other three seasons.
“We were excited to be a part of the project,” Postuma said of her family, which includes her husband, three children and two stepchildren. “It was fun to see our friends and kids be a part of it.”
For more on Postuma, read her blog at Simplicity in the Suburbs.