The Ste. Rose Library building is 100 years old and a celebration is being planned.
It has housed a few different purposes in the community such as a school, then converted to a library.
Germain Jacobs, member of the Dreamweavers Art Group, tells us when the celebration takes place
“We’re choosing July the first, Canada Day, to commemorate these hundred years of this building and we’re opening it up to anyone who is in our community and around; people who have come to this school and used this library. We have opportunities for them to come in and sign the chalkboard we have available and set up for the occasion. There’ll be an indoor and outdoor program also we have walking about tours that are going on about the building.”
Elvier Brunel also a member of the Dreamweavers Art Group tells us what there is to all take in that day.
“We also have a community art exhibit, so people in the community are asked to bring up to three items of art that they’ve made and it will be on display. On the third floor we have our Dreamweavers Art Studio, so we’re going to open that up too. That’s our art studio and we come up here to do some art. We also have a little 1950’s mini museum. This little replica of what our Main Street looked like in the 1950’s and it’s really well worth seeing.”
There will also be a Story Time tent, BBQ lunch and 100th Anniversary Cake as part of the celebrations.
Both women had ties to the building. Jacobs worked as a librarian there and Brunel was a teacher in the old school.
