Pierce County Girl Scout Kate Joiner recently cut the ribbon on a Little Free Library for Laura S. Walker State Park.
Kate lives with her parents Clint and Ginger and brother, Will, on-site at Laura Walker. Her father is assistant manager of the park and Kate has been an active member of Pierce County Troop 3014 for the last few years. When brainstorming ideas for earning her bronze award, the highest honor for a junior scout, Kate’s love of reading led the way.
Initially, they googled ideas for the community service project. Settling on a little library, which operates on the honor system of “take a book leave a book”, they then took to Facebook to see if anyone had something they could repurpose for the container. Vicki Kuhbander of Ware County 4-H had an old newspaper vending machine that seemed ideal and gave it to the Joiners. The same machine had once been the basis of Sami Jo Kuhbander’s own silver project.
