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  Editor’s note: This week The Cambrian is happy to introduce a new column from a local organization serving the community: Friends of the Cambria Library. The Friends are currently raising the matching funds needed to make possible the opening of new Cambria Library. A column updating the status of that drive and explaining the many ways in which the library — an information hub — is of use and value to the community for reasons of education, entertainment, socialization and economics, among other things, will appear monthly until completion of the fund drive. For more information, go to www.cambriafol.org.

  After 31 years, our wonderful Cambria Library is planning a move to a new, larger location at the corner of Main Street and Cambria Drive. The new 5,800-square-foot building has been jointly purchased by the county and the Friends of the Cambria Library. The outside is complete, but the inside is a shell waiting to be custom built for the library.

  When finished, the new library will nearly double its

• Dancing for a cause in Atascadero

  Dancing for a cause in Atascadero

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• Matching grant sparks another $10,000 donation

  Matching grant sparks another $10,000 donation

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• SLO woman leaves nearly $300,000 to local public libraries

  SLO woman leaves nearly $300,000 to local public libraries

  The late Barbara Baltimore of San Luis Obispo has left a bequest of nearly $300,000 to San Luis Obispo County’s public libraries — the largest bequest in the library system’s history, according to a recent announcement.

  Baltimore, who was a scientist, philanthropist and library supporter, died April 18. She left $195,000 to the Foundation for San Luis Obispo County Public Libraries and $99,014.72 to the San Luis Obispo Friends of the Library.

  “We were flabbergasted by the generosity of her donation,” said Robert Alberti, president of the foundation. “The foundation will be working very hard to live up to the honor she has bestowed on us.”

• Funding deadline for new library nearing

  Funding deadline for new library nearing

  A front-and-center issue at some recent Cambria meetings has been how local citizens can raise $450,000 in 11 months to complete a deal with the county for the town’s new library and community hub.

  The issue’s to be on the table again Wednesday, Feb. 15, as Supervisor Bruce Gibson and others continue to make their case once again before the North Coast Advisory Council (6:30 p.m., Rabobank, 1070 Main St.).

  Greg Fitzgerald, chief fundraiser for Friends of the Cambria Library, is to explain how Cambria’s new library eventually will differ from, and be so much better than, the current facility, especially in terms of technological advances and sheer elbow room.