Monongahela library unveils its new sign

By ERIC SEIVERLING

eseiverling@yourmvi.com

The Monongahela Area Library received a small facelift last week.

Thanks to the area’s Library Lovers fundraising group, the library now has a new outdoor sign located at the front of the building.

The sign was installed shortly before Independence Day by Monongahela’s Delmar Zenobi of Delmar Signs.

The project began more than two years ago, when the library’s then-president, Michelle Hazen DeHosse, was looking for a final project to end her term with the library in February 2018.

The sign was also a request from then library director Tiffany Fleet, who died in 2017, and her successor, Amy Riegner, who stepped down earlier this year. Becky Dudzik is serving as the library’s interim director.

“The old sign was original to the building and was from the 1980s,” DeHosse said. “Its electricity wasn’t working, letters were broken and coming down Main Street, you couldn’t see it clearly.”

DeHosse approached the Library Lovers group, which was formed in 2016, to seek fundraising for the sign.

The group went to work organizing various fundraisers, including spaghetti dinners, gift certificates, hoagie sales and a golden meal ticket raffle. It raised $35,000 in just under two years.

“I knew they were well-connected in the community and they were hard workers,” DeHosse said.

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