Library story pole carves open new chapter in community relations

It isn’t just a new library being built at the old Pederson Automotive site on Morris Street.

An understanding that the local area is one community – a single, multi-cultural community – is being built there as well, La Conner Library Foundation Director Susan Macek said last week.

The much-anticipated start of construction of the La Conner-Swinomish Regional Library underscores the value of working together on a project that will serve and benefit the many diverse groups within the library district here, Macek said.

And symbolizing that unity at the library’s main entrance will be...