Ground broken on new library for Inkom community

INKOM — Work will soon statesman connected a caller room for a organization that has gone without.

The South Bannock Library District held a groundbreaking connected Thursday for a early room successful Inkom, located astatine of Holstein Street and Old Highway 30 successful nan area of nan Inkom Elementary School playground. The room will beryllium visible to anyone exiting Interstate 15, entering nan city.

“This is simply a important milestone successful our community’s travel towards fostering knowledge and a emotion for reading,” said Director Megan Short successful her reside to nan gathered crowd.

Shortly after, Short stood pinch nan room committee and made nan first shovel scoops wherever nan room will stand.

Megan Short (second to nan left) breaks crushed pinch nan room board. | Logan Ramsey, EastIdahoNews.com

Short said that she’s received a batch of affirmative comments and heard excitement from group successful nan community. Currently, nan closest room to Inkom residents is complete 10 miles distant successful McCammon. The adjacent closest room is nan Marshall Public Library successful Pocatello, complete 12 miles away.

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Short said this room will beryllium nan culmination of years of work. She doesn’t cognize precisely really agelong nan territory has been trying to springiness Inkom a library, but she knows that it’s thing that her predecessor was besides moving on.

“This is everything we’ve been moving for for a agelong time. We’ve gotten complete a batch of obstacles to get wherever we are,” Short said.

One of nan top obstacles was uncovering a location wherever nan room could beryllium built. To execute this, nan room territory made a onshore switch pinch nan Marsh Valley School District.

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Mayor Max Shaffer, told EastIdahoNews.com astir his excitement for nan caller library, happy that nan room is going to beryllium built wherever it is.

“It’s going to beryllium specified a bully summation for our children,” Shaffer said. “the kids tin spell from present connected nan sidewalk done municipality and get to wherever they request to spell and it’ll beryllium specified a beautiful summation to this portion of crushed present connected nan corner.”

Short said that nan room will besides service a a halfway for nan community.

“I conscionable want it to beryllium that organization hub that group tin spell to and meet different group and get resources that they request to unrecorded their lives,” Short said.

The Inkom room will person a gathering room wherever events tin beryllium held, printers and fax machines, computers and more. The conception that Short is astir excited for will beryllium a backstage study room, wherever patrons tin return video calls aliases find a quiet spot to study.

Short expects activity to statesman connected nan room successful astir 1 to 2 weeks, and anticipates that it will beryllium completed sometime successful nan autumn aliases wintertime aliases of adjacent year.