Rainbow Library

Little Free Library gone

May 12, 2020 | 3:01 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Rainbow Park has played home to a Little Free Library for a lot of years.

“It’s been going on since about 2016 and I’ve been the caretaker. I live down the street,” explains Tina Cousins, a resident of the neighbourhood and a librarian.

The library is adjacent to a seniors complex and an elementary school.

Each week, Cousins would come by and maintain it and, much as she has for years, decorate it according to the season.

“On Thursday, I was driving by in the evening and I was thinking ‘I need to decorate it for spring.’ And then, like, what?”

The post with a cone was all that remained of the Little Free Library at Rainbow Park.

She immediately got on the phone to learn the fate of the Little Free Library in Rainbow Park and was told the program had been discontinued.

“That was disappointing because we weren’t given heads up about it and it just kind of happened.”

The City removed the library. It was subsequently sent to REAPS, which in turn has given it to a home on Cranbrook Hill. There have been reassurances that the stakeholders will be contacted about the fate of the Rainbow Park library. There have been offers to re-build but Counsins says she is not interested in re-building if it is only going to become a cone again.

In the meantime, though, Cousins says she plans to decorate the post that remains. As well as the cone on top.