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Community planner Angela Evans created the first Little Free Library in Victoria, BC, on Clare Street in 2008. Fashioned from a recycled window and plywood scavenged from a neighbor's deck, with a peaked roof decorated with tiles from a discarded disco ball, it was inspired by Portland, Oregon's City Repair Project. On Clare Street, that meant tire swings and basketball hoops, block barbecues, an email group, and a patio where neighbors gathered for "Caf Clare". Little free libraries outside homes have multiplied during the pandemic -- up to 600 in March. Some also stock seeds, games, and art supplies. Teale Phelps Bondaroff stocks them for the Victoria Placemaking Network's Pocket Places Project. As of April, it had delivered 67,861 books to more than 600 homegrown libraries. The 607th, looks like a lighthouse, with a working light powered by a solar panel. While Angela Evans died in 2012, her little library has been refurbished and there is now a bench for people to sit and read.
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