Friends of the Franklin county Public Library most outstanding in Florida

The local Friends of the Library group is getting some statewide attention for building the Eastpoint branch of the public library.

County library director Anne Birchwell said the Friends of the Franklin county Public Library will be recognized by the Florida Library Association as the most outstanding friends group throughout the state of Florida for the years of work it put into the construction of the library on Hickory dip Road.

The 5000 square foot library branch officially opened to the public last October.

The library project was 8 years in the making.

It began in 2004, and thanks to hard work from a number of local groups and citizens the library project survived funding issues and a world-wide economic crash.

Miss Birchwell said she would attend the Florida Library Association conference in Orlando next month to receive that award.

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