The Lake Area Foundation, Inc. presented a $1,500 grant award from the Lake Cumberland Area Development Fund’s Fall 2025 grant cycle to the McCreary County Public Library for their Comfort Cabinet project.
MCPL plans to purchase cabinets to place in the library’s public restrooms and stock them with personal hygiene items for the public to use as needed. Hygiene items will also be available through the bookmobile. Supplies that will be offered include toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap, wipes, feminine hygiene products, deodorant, combs, and more.
This project was inspired by a teen volunteer who has been stocking period supplies in the library’s public restrooms. The Comfort Cabinet project will enable us to expand the hygiene items we will offer in each of our public restrooms and through the Bookmobile.
Pictured, left to right: Brenda Wooldridge (LAF Volunteer), Paige Coe (LAF Volunteer), Grady Wilson (MCPL Director), Rhonda Kendziorski (MCPL Assistant Director).