Food for Fines at Spokane Library nets biggest haul yet

Hawk Hammer by Hawk Hammer

Spokane Public Library

During the month of May at the Spokane Library, the offer on the table was to bring in a canned food item and you could get your fines waived.

Blowing their previous year’s total out of the water, the library waived fines for 2,391 people and forgave almost $42,000 in overdue fines.

For perspective, in 2017 the library forgave $3,318.50.

Second Harvest and the Spokane Humane Society were the receivers of all the food, with Second Harvest netting almost 10,000 pounds of food and the Humane Society netting 902 pet items.

In 2017 those numbers were 2,022 pounds and 0.

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