Pearl City volunteers help prepare new Aiea library for grand opening

Jul 15, 2014 | PC Community

 

Pearl City community volunteers representing the Pearl City Lions Club, Pearl City Foundation, Pearl City Community Association, and MyPearlCity.com, joined volunteers from the Mana Loa-Nimitz Lions Club, Aiea community, and Aiea Library staff to move the last remaining books from the old Aiea Library to the newly completed 17, 200 square foot Aiea Library located at the site of the former Aiea Sugar Mill at 99-374 Pohai Place.

The new Aiea Library is scheduled to open its doors starting with a Grand Opening Ceremony this Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 10:00am. The public is invited to attend and be the first to enjoy the new library and its upgraded services.

The original  Aiea Library located at 99-143 Moanalua Road closed its doors on Monday, June 7, 2014 after 50 years of service to the Aiea community and their ohana. The original Aiea Library was built back in 1964.

Mahalo to all the Pearl City community volunteers who helped out their Aiea neighbors on Saturday to move into their new, beautiful, state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly,  Aiea Library home.

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New Aiea Library located at the site of the former Aiea Sugar Mill at 99-374 Pohai Place.

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New Aiea Library interior view looking Mauka towards Aiea Heights.

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Community volunteers helped deliver dozens of boxes of books on Saturday, July 12, 2014

from the original Aiea Library located at 99-143 Moanalua Road to the new Aiea Library

located at 99-374 Pohai Place. Aiea Library staff members spent Saturday morning and

afternoon placing the books in order on the new, shiny, Aiea library book shelves.

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Honolulu City Councilmember Breene Harimoto who represents Aiea, Pearl City, and Waipahu, and is also

a community volunteer from both the Pearl City Foundation and Mana Loa-Nimitz Lions Club, is pictured

bringing in another load of books from the original Aiea Library to the new library on Saturday, July 12, 2014.

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The new Aiea Library features 12 public Internet computers, two public access computers (electronic

card catalogs) as well as free wireless Internet access with a valid HSPLS library card. The new

library also has available over 8,000 DVDs and CDs and shelf space to accommodate 78.000 books.

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Entrance to the new Aiea Library.

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Come celebrate the Aiea Library Grand Opening on Saturday, July 19 at 10:00am

 

Aloha to the original Aiea Library after 50 years of service to the

Aiea Community!

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Aiea Library staff and community volunteers prepare to leave the original Aiea Library

on Saturday, July 12, 2014 and make the transition up the hill to the new the Aiea Library

while venturing upon another chapter in serving the Aiea community and its ohana.

Photo by Barry Villamil | [email protected]

The original Aiea Library space will continue to be utilized by the

Hawaii State Public Library System in a yet to be determined capacity.

Photo by Barry Villamil | [email protected]

The original Aiea Library located at 99-143 Moanalua Road closed its doors

on Monday, June 7, 2014 after 50 years of service to the Aiea community.