School library rises from the ashes

The Contra Costa Times has a report on The library at the Castro Elementary School in El Cerrito, California. More than 1,000 books have been donated to Castro Elementary after a suspicious fire last year ruined the library

It’s part of the outpouring of donations that greeted the school after a suspicious fire gutted its old library. Donations were so large that West County school district assistant librarian Dolores Thompson found herself overwhelmed.

“Hundreds and hundreds of books were donated,” she said. “There was a great outpouring not only from this community but all over the United States.”