The community board inside the Richford Public Library has been accumulating notes, clippings, and hand-drawn flyers for the better part of two months — ever since talk of Burlington's Les Marées / The Tides mural dedication began rippling north through the Missisquoi corridor. Most have been addressed to no one in particular: announcements, questions, little dispatches left for whoever happened to be passing through. By last week the board held at least forty items, according to a count kept by the library's front desk.

Monday morning, that changed.

Colette Aubin-Roy found the note while opening the building. It was brief. It asked, by name, whether she was planning to attend the official dedication ceremony at Burlington's Central Transit Hub.

It was the first note on the board addressed directly to her.

"One I wasn't expecting to be asked out loud," she said, describing the moment she read it. She hasn't pinned a response.

The shift is small but notable: a community that had been talking among itself has turned, gently, toward one of the people who has been keeping the conversation going. Aubin-Roy has been part of the library's daily life in ways that rarely make anyone's feed. The board exists, in part, because of the kind of attention she pays.

Whether she goes to Burlington is, for now, an open question. The note is still up.