Books for Transit shelters take a ride
By: Aldo Santin
Posted: 03/17/2011 1:00 AM
UNDER the cover of darkness early Monday morning, several hundred books were placed in four bus shelters across the city in a grassroots bid to promote literacy and give something free to strangers.
Unfortunately, the books never made it into the hands they were intended to reach -- Winnipeg Transit cleaned out the four shelters within hours after concluding the books and bookcases posed a fire and safety hazard.
"We're just a group of people doing something different, to give back to the community a little bit," said Lynne Church, a spokeswoman for the group calling themselves Books as Shelter.
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