Growing up in east Las Vegas, Serafin Calvo would translate for his parents, who didn’t know English.
He gets choked up when he recalls people disrespecting his parents for not being able to converse in the language, and they didn’t take him seriously.
Come 2019, the area Calvo grew up in — where today most students receive free or reduced lunch — will finally get its own library.
“A lot of times, growing up in this neighborhood, your opportunities are very limited,” Calvo said Thursday before local dignitaries broke ground for the new library on the block he grew up on. “We’ve witnessed this neighborhood transform from bad to better. And right now, this is an exciting moment.”
The East Las Vegas Library is slated to open in the spring of 2019 as the first in the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District that is designed around the needs of people in the surrounding area, library district Executive Director Ronald Heezen said.
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