Celebration Oct. 16 in Uniontown: 'Sharing Corner' to start at Uniontown, Colton

A new community resource will kick off Oct. 16 in Uniontown for a program that will also start in Colton and is intended to expand from there across the Palouse.

“Sharing Corners” was begun by a group of people who took a class last winter at the Colfax library given by Rural Development Initiatives, based in Eugene, Ore. The local group came up with an idea for a project and later used a $5,000 grant from the Innovia Foundation to bring it to fruition.

Inspired by the concept of the free-standing “Little Libraries” in various communities that hold give-and-take books, larger “Sharing Corners”...