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Wheaton Library Advisory Committee Receives Award

The Eleanor Ablar Award will be presented June 13.

The Montgomery County Library Board will present the Wheaton Library Advisory Committee with the Eleanor Ablar Award in mid-June.

Jill Lewis, who chairs the Montgomery County Library Board, wrote the following in a congratulatory email to the Wheaton LAC: "The Ablar Award is presented to an LAC that has exhibited outstanding community service. The Wheaton LAC is a model for growing membership and activity and is to be commended for creating unique programs such as the excellent Patron Interview Program."

The LAC awards will be presented at 7 p.m. on June 13 in the third floor Library Board Room of the. 

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Update, 10:20 a.m.:

Jill Brantley of the Wheaton Library Advisory Committee made the following statement in response to receiving the award:

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“I think the Library Board and the LACs and all the supporters of libraries in Montgomery County have proved over the last two years the observation attributed to Winston Churchill:  'Kites fly highest against the wind.'  The adversities of budget constraints have made us all work to articulate more clearly the importance of libraries to our way of life in Montgomery County.  Wheaton LAC is very, very grateful for the leadership of Art Brodsky and Jill Lewis of the Library Board and the support of the Wheaton Regional Park Neighborhood Association, ably led by Kim Persaud, and the Kensington-Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, under Kathleen Guinon and Vicky Surles.  We are all very grateful to have a chance to be part of the effort to build libraries up in Montgomery County and to work with such dedicated librarians as Parker Hamilton, Dianne Whitaker and Fran Ware.”


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