It was a fun evening in the neighborhood – the Newport North Carolina neighborhood(s) – as Newport Rotartians gathered shovels, concrete, drills and books and installed three Little Free Libraries..and that’s only the beginning. The bright blue and yellow boxes went up in front of the Newport Rotary building, in Maher Saikali’s Exxon Station on Highway 70 and in front of the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Newport. Crystal Coast Habitat and Newport Rotary teamed together to support literacy for Newport, and the surrounding communities, by donating boxloads of books to keep the LFL’s stocked. Friends of Rotarians, Friends of the Public Library, Friends of Habitat, and friends of friends have made sure that we have a room overflowing with books of all kinds – so the install fun will continue as we spread out to fulfill requests from several Newport neighborhoods. Newport Rotarians Julia Saikali Capps (President), Maher Saikali, Steve and Tammy Blizzard, Bevin Wall, Rick and Anita Moreau, Joe Garner and President-elect Mark Eadie made the most of the of our time together, enjoying the spring weather and the Rotary fellowship. Newport Rotary now has 6 Little Free Libraries available to various Newport communities with boxes at St James UMC fellowship hall…Camp Albemarle on Hwy 24…across the street from Newport Elementary School in downtown Newport…Crystal Coast Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Saikali’s Exxon Station and next to the Rotary Bench, across from the Newport Park on Howard Blvd. We chose our area of focus to be Basic Education and Literacy this year – knowing that the 2 years of COVID left us with book deserts all over our county – and we felt we were best able to help our community by providing books for all ages. PP ANITA MOREAU.
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