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CARRABASSETT VALLEY – On Saturday, a four-year effort to get a new library built will be realized with a grand opening celebration.
A ribbon will be cut at 3 p.m. to officially open the new $1.3 million Carrabassett Valley Public Library & Community Center, ending the work of many who raised money, worked on the various design ideas and still more who did a little bit of everything to see this project completed.
The old library, for years in a small space behind the town office, was closed in mid December. Through January volunteers have been moving the library’s well-used 2,000 volume collection a few miles up Route 27 to their new shelves.
The best part for the area’s book lovers is that there is space enough now for the collection to grow three times the current collection’s size.
Moving in another wing of the building is Western Maine Center for Children, which is renting the space, while a community room for continuing education, art exhibits, cultural events, after-school and senior activities sits between the two entities. The new building is situated next to the Anti-Gravity Center near the entrance to Sugarloaf.
“We’re going to be all set,” said the library’s coordinator, Andrea DeBiase, of Saturday’s festivities. “We’re very excited to open.”
She noted that the great response in volunteer help made moving in and opening on time possible.
Among the items on the new library’s wish list are audio/visual equipment for showing movies, a grown-up size chair for reading to the children and nice hardcover books are most welcome. Be sure to call DeBiase at the new library’s phone number: 237-3535 before carting books over. (The complete library wish list will be posted here shortly.)
The public is invited to the ribbon cutting, which will be held at 3 p.m. with selectmen, Town Manager Dave Cota, the community’s many donors and volunteers, the construction crew and architects expected. From 3 to 6 p.m. an open house will be held with tours and refreshments.
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