On Saturday, the Zeta Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. celebrated opening a new little library. In conjunction with their Uplift Our Local Community initiative, the sorority held a ribbon cutting for Lake Kennedy Park’s new little library at 1300 Blythewood Ln. In collaboration with the Lake Kennedy Civic League and Suffolk Parks and Recreation, the little library provides educational books for families and children.
Uplift Our Local Community Chairperson Cheryl Lawton talked about the process of bringing the little library to fruition with Suffolk Parks and Recreation and the Lake Kennedy Civic League.
“One of the things that we wanted to do is we wanted to ensure that we had support from the community,” Lawton said. “That was very intentional because we think that number one, if you’re going to do work in the community, of course, have the community help support as well as ensuring that everybody knows about it who live in the community.”
Lawton also talked about creating the library for the park to ensure children have books to read, especially African-American history books.