At long last the Embrun branch of the Township of Russell’s Public Library will be getting a new home in a brand new building being built by the Embrun Co-op. A joint announcement between the township, the library board and the Co-op was announced just before the Labour Day weekend.
The township is a small rural municipality southeast of Ottawa and has two library branches, one in the Village of Russell and one in the Village of Embrun. Embrun’s has been located in an elementary school for the last ten years, after the branch had to move out of the Township Hall.
Use of the school was always meant to be temporary. The new, central location will be permanent, on the ground floor of the Co-op’s new building beside the existing Co-op building on Notre Dame Street.
CJRO spoke with Dominique Bertrand of the library board, Mayor of Russell Township Mike Tarnowski and Co-op CEO Patrick Therrien, about how the decision was made, and what’s next.
