Heartwarming story about Roy teens and their library

A sizable budget deficit is forcing the town of Roy to do what no town wants to do: close the Roy City Library until the beginning of the new year.

In the last year or so the Roy Library had become the place for the local teenagers to hang out to use the computers and check out materials. When Librarian Cecelia Hanson gave the teens the news that the library was going to have to close until January, the kids refused to accept it.

They organized and have raised over $600 - enough to keep the library open for the month of September.

To do this they held car washes, put donation jars in every business in Roy during the busy Roy rodeo over Labor Day, and asked the Fireman’s association for assistance for the Library.

The citizens of Roy should be justifiably proud of their involved teenage citizens!
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