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05/06/2005 Santore Library Town Meeting (Ed Goppelt)

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Residents
2005/05/06 About 100 South Philadelphians showed up to discuss the effect of library cuts with their elected officials. Santore is one of the ten so called "Express" libraries which now operates at reduced hours and without librarians due to cost cutting by the City.

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Senator Vincent Fumo: "I don't like one plan. I like A B C D."
2005/05/06 Read what Sen. Fumo had to say about the libraries.

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Residents question their elected officials
2005/05/06

Here are some of the things residents asked and told their elected officials on Friday:

"Isn't there anything else besides waiting for nickels and dimes of the Appropriations Committee?"

"Can Harrisburg do better than the $2 million increase it has planned for the libraries this year?"

"The death of a library is the death of literacy. The death of literacy is the death of democracy. The death of democracy is the death of freedom."

"I hate to see the new library being used as a political football."

"The City gave Comcast all kinds of tax breaks. I don't understand why we bend over backwards for large corporations that can afford these taxes."

"Comcast owes the City 12 years worth of public access Television."

"If people in the neighborhood raise money is there anyway to guarantee that it stays [with the Santore branch]?"

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Elliot Shelkrot, Babette Josephs, Frank DiCicco
2005/05/06 Shelkrot is Library Director. Santore branch lies in State Rep. Joseph's and Councilman DiCicco's district.

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Theresa Timlin: "Mr. Shelkrot, Sen. Fumo, Councilman DiCicco: Express Libraries don't work."
2005/05/06 Timlin lives in Bella Vista with her husband and 3 year old son.

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Former Santore Branch Head Barbara Paquette
2005/05/06 Paquette was head of the Santore branch until the reorganization forced to her accept a demotion. "There's been a sharp decline in programming and volunteers" since the reorganization said Paquette.

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2005/05/06