Great Effort on Saturday!

What a great turnout for library moving day! We had around 120 volunteers show up to move the books across the street to the new library on Saturday. Pleasant weather and pleasant people made for fun times. Got a little exercise in the effort too.

In case you didn't attend, a "fire brigade" was set up across Main Street as people just handed books to each other, usually about 4 at a time, depending on the size of the book. There were enough people that most didn't even have to move their feet, just swing their arms from right to left (or left to right, depending on how they were standing.

As of Sunday, I'm not sore, but when the books got really moving, I was starting to feel it, so it was some good exercise too. Not sure how many pounds of books we moved, but I'm sure it was a lot. Some visitors from Norway got to see it too. Those folks just happened to be passing by, and got to see Roland hard at work.

And it wasn't just Roland people. Also saw some from out of town, mostly Story City. Some high school kids were working for community hours towards their graduation requirements. And there were older folks--north of 60 I'm sure, and kids south of age 10 helping as well. Just an all around wide swath of the community that came to help out.


Here is some video of the brigade. This is from my cell phone. Never used the video function before on it, and it is sideways. Ooops. But you get the point.

And in this post you can see a couple pics I snapped. Probably will have more on the way on a future blog post, but here is what I have now.