MASON CITY – Kay Sloan of Mason City was honored at the Mason City Council meeting on the evening of August 6th for her purchase and donation of a sculpture to the Mason City Library.
Kay Sloan purchased the sculpture Circle of Friends for $36,000 and donated it to the Mason City Public Library for permanent display. The sculpture depicts a child reading a book inside a circle.
A Sculpture Unveiling Ceremony was held prior to the council meeting, in the Circle Drive of the Library to honor and thank Kay Sloan for her donation.
Kay Sloan is a member of the Mason City Library Library Board of Trustees and a former teacher.
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I am sure there are much better ways she can donate $36,000 to the city. We don’t need any more dang statues in town.
Then go back to school, get an education and then get a good paying job with benefits and start saving money….Short of an inheritance, or winning the lottery, that’s how the rest of us do it!!
Get off the pity pot and get with the world of hard work!!!
If the woman has the money, and spent it, then it is not imaginary. There is such a thing as savings, second incomes and so forth that produce income – real money. How they spend it, or invest it, is up to them.
A great example of this is the Alumni from the High School I attended. They contribute yearly to sponsor students, or provide money for athletics. Sometimes as much as this woman gave for the statue. They earned it, they do what they think is right in supporting the institution that gave them a good education. Again, that is not imaginary.
Just because you cannot, or are not willing to produce the same efforts, does not mean that you should slight them for the profit they earn from theirs. I might remind you that they started out the same as you or I from High School. The difference is the choices they made as adults, the same choices we all make.
Jealousy is not the best of virtues.
Some people work and contribute to that economy, you don’t
Ridiculous– but at least it wasn’t taxpayers money!!