Central School offers records storage for local organizations

By: 
Erin Sommers Graphic-Advocate Editor

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It all started with Lake City’s Monday Club.
Club member Jeanne Devine said the organization’s president was moving out of state, which got club members talking about what to do with the decades of records each president is tasked with caring for.
“The minutes go back to 1891,” Devine said. “We did not want to lose any of that. … They had been stored in different presidents’ basements in tubs.”
When former club president LaDonna Temple decided to move away from Lake City, she reached out to Historic Central School and Jim Bruce. Bruce helped club members select the right kind of storage boxes – acid-free material – and worked out an agreement he could use with any group that wanted to see its records kept in a safer environment.
How the Monday Club has historically stored its documents isn’t unusual, Bruce said. 
Read more in the Nov. 1 edition. 

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