New Library for Weymouth

Weymouth’s new Waterfront Library opened Last week, providing the community with a spacious program and community room, more reading areas, high-speed internet access, a children’s area, wheelchair accessible washrooms and 21 paved parking spaces.

The 307 square-metre riverside facility is the result of seven years of planning and saving by the Municipality of Digby council and of community consultation with residents and Team Weymouth, says deputy warden Jimmy MacAlpine. The consultations ensured the library fit with plans to improve the inner core of the village.

“I believe that the new library building located where it is beside the river is going to be an asset in the revitalization of the village,” he said. “It shows the municipal council’s commitment to the village and to the people of the Weymouth area.”

An active player in the site selection and development was the Weymouth Waterfront Development Committee. The committee, through a cost sharing agreement between the committee, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Nova Scotia Economic and Rural Development, was able to pave the parking lot, provide landscaping and supply equipment and technology for the community training room in the library.

“This community training room will enable companies to upgrade or retrain their labour force as well as give the village of Weymouth the ability to provide teleconferencing seminars in any given field of endeavour or interest,” says committee chair Rod Lefort.

“The overall goal is to make the village of Weymouth more competitive in attracting industry to our area.”

• The Digby County Courier
• 29 July, 2010