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Search for new Library District Director lands
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March 8, 2016 |
Craig Anderson, well-known Bonners Ferry High
School teacher, was chosen to succeed Sandy
Ashworth as the director of the Boundary County
Library District by the district’s Board of
Trustees. Anderson will assume the directorship
on October 1, 2016, after completing the school
year and working closely with Sandy, her staff,
and the district’s Board of Trustees throughout
the summer.
 “The
trustees were pleased with the response to the
posted job opening and felt fortunate to have a
number of viable candidates to interview,” said
Ms. Ashworth, “however, Craig’s professional
experience as an innovative, award-winning
educator combined with his vision of the
library’s role and mission—past, present, and
most of important of all, its future
potential—made him their unanimous choice.”
Born and raised in Boundary County, Mr. Anderson
sees the library directorship as continuation of
his decades of experience fostering the
life-long enjoyment of learning for his over
3,000 satisfied students.
Ms. Ashworth has retirement in her future, but
first she'll be continuing in a volunteer
advisory / consultant position with Mr. Anderson
and with the library's Board of Trustees for
awhile. And she still has a position on
the Kootenai Valley Resource Initiative that
will keep her busy. Then what? "No
major plans," she said, "except for longer
visits with family residing in other states, and
catching up on 31 years of 'this can wait, I
have to go to work' projects at home."
"I don't indulge in long-range plans any more,"
she said, "although I do still buy green
bananas!"
Mr. Anderson is looking forward to getting
started with his new responsibilities at the
library. "This library has been making a difference in
our county with its willingness to give," said
Mr. Anderson. "Through hard work and ingenuity,
Sandy, her staff, the trustees, and community
members are creating a powerful new learning
center that, coupled with its ground-breaking
fabrication center or Fab Lab, can provide the
people of Boundary County with a bridge toward a
positive, productive future. A culture of
opportunity is in the making, and I am excited
to be part of it.” |
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