In Our View: Check These Numbers; Vancouver's Three Library Branches Are Inadequate, in Need of Support

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Here are some numbers Vancouver residents might consider before voting on the library-improvement measures on their Nov. 8 ballots, which they will be getting in the mail late next week:

42 The number of years ago the downtown Vancouver library was built at its present size. John F. Kennedy was president. Westfield Vancouver mall, Cascade Park and Interstate 205 didn't exist and the city limits didn't go as far east as the fields where they later were built.

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In Our View: Check These Numbers; Vancouver's Three Library Branches Are Inadequate, in Need of Support

34,000 Vancouver's population in 1963. (The county had 102,000.)

155,000 Today's Vancouver population (County: 380,000-plus). Today, the city's cor...

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