Library painting project on hold to allow ESL class

The Westchester Square Library’s long-planned painting job inside the building will have to wait so ESL programming is not interrupted. Photo by Victor Chu

The Westchester Square Library was scheduled to get a new paint job near the start of the new year, but the inability to find a suitable replacement space for English as a Second Language programs that take place there for immigrants have likely pushed the job back to the summer.

Head branch librarian Aurea Garcia said she had looked for other places to accommodate the growing numbers of participants in the library’s ESL programs, but felt that a change of venue in the middle of the class schedules would be too disruptive to the immigrants and that they would likely lose many of the students in the move.

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