![]() Earlier this spring, he played a leading role in building an elevated garden bed for the use of mobility challenged gardeners. The little library is Price’s second construction project at Laughing Willow Garden. “There’s a lot of people doing good things in the community off their own backs and we like to encourage those. “One of our main goals is to enable community action and promote community, and from that point of view I think it’s a good thing,” said Cynthia Bendickson of Greenways. The garden library has the blessing of Greenways Land Trust, which oversees the garden through a license of occupation on the City-owned lot at the corner of Simms Road and Lawton Grove. ![]() “Users even come to the door to report small problems.” “The community seems to take a protective and custodial role with the libraries and there has never been damage or vandalism,” Price said of his home library. The libraries are self-policing and self-renewing, even though there is no obligation to leave a book for each one taken. The sign says ‘Take a book or leave a book.'” ![]() “The idea is simple a small, weatherproof box is placed handy to the street. “When I first read about the little libraries in the Rotary magazine over a year ago, I realized this was something I wanted to do,” said Price, who already has an active little library installed just outside his own home on Penfield Road. The bookworm now has a home at the Willow Point garden, thanks to the installation of a “Little Free Library” by local retiree Keith Price and his grandchildren earlier this month. The latest bug found Laughing Willow Community Garden will not cause any damage to the vegetables, herbs and flowers growing there.
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