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Lewis County honors volunteers and spotlights new WSU Master Recycler Composter tool library
Summary
County commissioners recognized volunteers behind a new WSU Lewis County Master Recycler Composter "Tool Bucket Library," a volunteer-run lending program in Centralia that opened after a Department of Ecology public-participation grant and now holds more than 900 tools.
Lewis County commissioners on Aug. 5 recognized dozens of volunteers who developed and opened the WSU Lewis County Master Recycler Composter "Tool Bucket Library" in Centralia.
The program, presented to the Board of County Commissioners during the meeting, grew from a series of repair fairs and a public-participation grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology, volunteers said. Melanie Case, sustainability coordinator with the Lewis County Department of Public Works, said the group received the competitive grant two years ago and established the library because “there was no tool library in Southwest Washington.”
The nut graf: The tool library is a volunteer-run lending operation that aims to reduce waste and make home-repair tools available to people who cannot or prefer not to own them. Volunteers described it as a community…
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