
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 8, 1995                   TAG: 9511080029
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: RICHARD FOSTER AND BETTY HAYDEN STAFF WRITERS
DATELINE: BEDFORD                                 LENGTH: Short

VOTERS OK LIBRARIES' EXPANSION

Bedford County library-goers will have more room to breathe - and read - thanks to a $7.1-million bond referendum that passed Tuesday by a wide margin.

"I'm delighted and it shows Bedford County wants a modern library system, and we're going to give it to them," said Tom Hehman, Bedford's public library director.

The bond money will add 18,000 square feet of library space countywide. New branch libraries will be built in Montvale, which does not have a library, as well as in Stewartsville, Moneta and Forest, where the library board leases space.

The county's current branch libraries are so small that if they were all combined into one building it still wouldn't meet the state's suggested size for one branch library - 4,500 square feet.

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