Earlier this year, Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to improve the County’s Sun City Library Branch. Although it took a little longer than expected, the facility reopened to the public August 13th.

 The Board of Supervisors and the Riverside County Library System will host a grand reopening party at the library at 2pm., Thursday, September 13th.

 After the supervisors voted unanimously to approve the $650,000 budget for the improvements, the library officially closed its doors, March 4th. The project included plans to create a newly defined and enhanced children’s area, an expanded marketplace highlighting new releases and a new dedicated teen space. The improvements also included furniture, new flooring and paint.

 During the closure, patrons were encouraged to use any of the Riverside County Library System branches in the area, including Canyon Lake Library, Romoland Library and Paloma Valley Library.

The Friends of the Sun City Library moved to a temporary space to continue raising funds for the library, but closed July 28, in anticipation of moving back to the new and improved library.

 According to the website, the first Sun City Library service began with a weekly bookmobile visit almost as soon as the first residents moved into the new Del Webb Senior Community in 1962. By 1965 Riverside County leased a storefront of 1,100 square feet for the first library