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“Angels”
By plnkh | June 29, 2007
Getting ready for a week of R & R I find it hard to believe that it is now summer. The six months since the acquisition of land for a new building have passed in a blur. A dedicated core of volunteers has joined members of the library board (also volunteers - even though elected) in a frenzy of planning. Years ago, Jeanne Jonas, a community minded woman who was a dominant force in the Arden Hill Hospital campaign, told me that if we wanted to build a new library we were going to have to find an “angel”. I believe she sent us an angel who has been working quietly behind the scenes to help us along. I also believe that angel may have helped us find a couple of others to assist with different parts of the process.
I would like to thank George Sewitt, a resident and Planning Board member of the Town of Woodbury, who served as the go-between for the Library and Dr. David Cohen of Long Island. George and board president Patty Garnett worked together to close the deal on the last five acres of the former Salesian School campus.
I would also like to thank Nick Michailescu, a resident of Monticello and project manager of Bethel Woods, sent to us by a member of our own town planning board, who is helping us formulate a project timetable so that we know every step we have to take on the long road to moving your new library building from a vision to a reality. Nick is a knowledgable construction professional who is working with architect Peter Hoffmann to define tasks, areas of responsibility and gather missing pieces of information so that we can bring the project to the voters; and that we will build the best building possible.
We have learned that angels take many forms and that it takes a community of them to build a library.
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