The Journal - Thursday, February 6th 2020

Vaudreuil-Dorion announces late library fee amnesty pilot project John Jantak The Journal

Vaudreuil-Dorion residents who haven’t returned overdue borrowed materials from the city’s library have been given a reprieve. Library late fees will be ( # & was unanimously adopted at the Mon # $ ary 3. 6 #

return books and other media without having to worry about incurring a late fee, said Mayor Guy Pilon. “It’s some ( borrow something and forget to return it. Or maybe a child borrowed a book and forgot about it. Six months later, G # G and don’t want to go back to the library,� said Pilon. ,1 ( G children. It will be a one year pilot project. We want to see if this will change 1 ( (

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for one year and then we’ll see how things go. Maybe this will inspire people to return the items they borrowed. We’ll see,� Pilon added. 5 ( # Q„< <<< G

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