The Montgomery County Memorial Library System will be accepting canned or prepackaged food items in exchange for any overdue fines accrued on a patron’s library account.
The program will continue through the end of the month.
“Food for fines gives patrons an opportunity during the month of November to reduce or zero out their overdue fines,” said Library Director Rhea Young.
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Items must be non-perishable. The collected items will be donated to the Montgomery County Food Bank in time for the holidays.
This fine amnesty offers $2 credit for each item of non-perishable food. Examples of food include canned and packaged goods. Donations cannot be used for replacement fees for lost or damaged titles.
Items should be taken to the Circulation Desk of each library where staff will calculate the exchange.
The library system was founded and began serving local readers in 1948. Since then, it has grown to serve nearly 400,000 library patrons and cardholders in seven branches countywide including in Willis, South Montgomery County, Montgomery, Magnolia and East Montgomery County.
The Montgomery County Food Bank nonprofit provides food to those in need through a network of 80-plus partner agencies. The group is in the middle of a $6.5 million expansion at the food bank in Conroe.
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This expansion will add additional cold storage, food-sorting areas, storage and additional gathering space. It is set to be complete in the spring.
The food bank’s Holiday Helpings Food and Funds Drive kicked off Nov. 1 and runs through Dec. 31. Participants may either host a food drive or participate through donation plate cards featuring a QR code, allowing business customers, employees and partners to make donations directly to the food bank.
Donors can then fill out a donation card to be displayed at the business.
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