MONROE — Ashton Klemm, Eagle Scout and senior at Monroe High School, built a free little library for an Eagle Scout project. The little library is located between Monroe High School and Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Klemm finds it to be the perfect place for the little library so both elementary and high school students can grab books. 

Klemm thanked Theresa Robertson for letting him put the little library in her yard. It was his mother who had discovered that Robertson wanted to put a little library on her property. As a result, Klemm and Robertson both got their little library.

“So I just want to give credit where credit is due,” Klemm said. “This is her yard and she was willing to have it here. I’d like to thank Teresa Robertson for all that she helped with.”

An Eagle Scout Project is a project that allows a scout to earn the Eagle Scout rank. It has to be a community service project that benefits a community organization, school, or religious institution. The project allows the scout to demonstrate leadership skills and the ability to plan a project and execute it.

Klemm said he did not have a good habit of reading and writing when he was younger, but over the years it has grown on him, and now he would like to be a writer. 

“Easy access to free books that don’t require any long processes of renting them and giving them back. If people just had access to free books that they can keep then maybe children can get a better love for reading and can lead them to want to make books or want to read more, and so that overall is why I decided to do a little library,” Klemm said. “And it’s a pretty popular thing to do and it’s a good way to offer books.”