A Note in English, on a Saturday, in Richford
A regular francophone patron left a note on the Richford Public Library community board written entirely in English — the first time, staff say. No announcement. No occasion. Just a note.
A Note in English, on a Saturday, in Richford
RICHFORD — The community board at the Richford Public Library is not a curated thing. It collects what people leave: notices, responses, the occasional hand-drawn map to somewhere. Since integration, it has skewed French, then bilingual, then something harder to categorize.
On Saturday afternoon, library staff member Colette Aubin-Roy noticed a new addition. A regular patron — francophone, she recognized the handwriting — had left a brief note written entirely in English. It was tucked beside a cluster of annotations left by whoever had returned the Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA media card, Episodes One through Three.
"Short, a little careful, but there," Aubin-Roy said. She has not spoken with the author. The note makes no reference to the series.
Six years after integration, that is what the board looks like now.