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Committee sends Belden Library history-room naming for Ralph C. Bloom to public hearing
Summary
The Land Use and Building Management Committee voted Nov. 5 to send the library board's request to name the History Room at Belden Library after Ralph C. Bloom to a Dec. 3 public hearing. Library officials said Bloom founded and sustained the History Room and has nearly 40 years of service as Norwalk's city historian.
Moina Noor, president of the Norwalk Public Library board, asked the committee to recommend to the full Common Council that the History Room at 1 Belden Ave. be named in honor of Ralph C. Bloom and that the committee schedule a public hearing on the request.
"This honor would recognize mister Bloom's foundational role in establishing and maintaining the History Room and acknowledge his nearly 40 years of service as Norwalk's official city historian," Noor said during…
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