12-Year-Old Boy Saves Local Library From Closing

Mar 29, 2011

By PraisePhilly

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Sekondi Landry is a 12-year-old boy who launched a campaign to keep his neighborhood library open, making signs and collecting signatures in protest of the closure.

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Moved by the efforts of Landry, the library’s trustees voted to keep the Scott Candler Library open with reduced hours until a new library is opened next year.