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For toilet-less Vermont library, a new chapter
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 21, 2008 | JOHN CURRAN

Posted on 11/22/2008 12:37:37 PM PST by george76

The one-room clapboard building, a beloved small-town gathering place since 1923, had no restrooms. When nature called, patrons young and old either had to hold it, do their business next door at the Roxbury Union Congregational Church or go home.

"I used to say 'We're the Wi-Fi library without a pot to p-- in,'" said library director Susan D'Amico.

(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: library; vermont; vermontlibrary
$22,000 (in fundraising) $14,900 (from a grant) = $36,900......

PLUS [at least partial] volunteer labor......good gracious, what on earth explains that kind of cost for a one-person restroom in a corner of an existing building??

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1 posted on 11/22/2008 12:37:37 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

$5,000 for construction and supplies.

$31,900 for red tape and permits.

All those county and state sucker want to get paid too.


2 posted on 11/22/2008 12:45:17 PM PST by Fichori (I believe in a Woman's right to choose, even if she hasn't been born yet.)
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Being Vermonters, I would have thought they would actually be proud of the situation, being eco-harmless and all...


3 posted on 11/22/2008 12:46:01 PM PST by realdifferent1 ("If you saw Atlas,...what would you tell him to do?"... "To shrug.")
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To: george76

if only D.C. toilet-less bathrooms, they might stop flushing our money down the toilet.


4 posted on 11/22/2008 1:06:30 PM PST by robomatik ((wine plug: renascentvineyards.com cabernet sauvignon, riesling, and merlot))
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To: george76

Too funny! They use the restaurant next door as an outhouse!


5 posted on 11/22/2008 1:47:43 PM PST by Ben Reyes
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Sorry, even funnier. Made a mistake — they are using a Church as an outhouse! Typical liberals!


6 posted on 11/22/2008 1:48:51 PM PST by Ben Reyes
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To: george76

all that reading material and no toilet?


7 posted on 11/22/2008 3:59:35 PM PST by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: george76

No toilet? What do they use the Sears catalogs for?


8 posted on 11/23/2008 6:40:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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