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WILDOMAR: Name change sought for library branch

Civic leaders want Mission Trail site named after city, similar to other facilities in the county.
  
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BY MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS / STAFF WRITER

WILDOMAR: Name change sought for library branch

At the suggestion of the Wildomar City Council and Friends of the Mission Trail Library, county Supervisor Kevin Jeffries will recommend Tuesday that the library's name be changed to the Wildomar Library.
, FRANK BELLINO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Mission Trail Library name change

Proposal: Board of supervisors to considering changing Mission Trail Library to Wildomar Library

When: 9 a.m., Tuesday, July 29

Where: County Administrative Center, 4080 Lemon St., Riverside

Mission Trail Library in Wildomar is the only Riverside County library branch named after the road on which is sits, and some civic leaders would like to see that changed.

In response to requests from branch boosters as well as the City Council, county Supervisor Kevin Jeffries plans to ask his colleagues Tuesday to consider renaming the site after the city.

“Renaming the library Wildomar Library will reflect more accurately the library’s identity and provide the residents a public anchor in the city,” Jeffries states in his written request to the Board of Supervisors.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. in the County Administrative Center, 4080 Lemon St. in Riverside. Unless an official or member of the public wants to address the issue, the board could approve the request without discussion.

The idea of replacing the name was initiated by the Wildomar Friends of the Library, a nonprofit of residents who raise funds to support the 5,578-square-foot branch at 34303 Mission Trail.

“We’ve been wanting this to happen for a long time,” group member George Taylor said. “I’m sure the county is going to approve that with no problem. ... Everybody supports it.”

At the request of the group, the City Council agreed to support the proposal and Mayor Marsha Swanson sent a letter expressing that to Jeffries.

Mission Trail opened in 2001, long before Wildomar became a city in 2008. Swanson, who also belongs to the nonprofit, said she was a member of the community’s advisory council when the branch came on line.

“From Day 1, I really thought Mission Trail Library didn’t describe where the library was or that we even had one,” she said. “Nobody’s going to know it as Mission Trail Library. Everyone refers to it as the Wildomar library. I just thought it makes things a little clearer (to change the name).”

Taylor said some locals approached county officials about changing the name when Wildomar incorporated, but the request didn’t get anywhere.

“We could never figure out why it wasn’t named the Wildomar Library to start with,” he said.

He said the Friends’ board would consider what to do about an identification sign if the name change is approved. The current sign is difficult to see from Mission Trail Road.

The branch is one of 35 in the county library system, and one of only three not named after the community in which they are located.

Lakeside Library in Lake Elsinore is so called because it is located on the Lakeside High School campus, and it opened after the Lake Elsinore Library was established. Temecula officials named the Grace Mellman Library in honor of a longtime library advocate when they, in conjunction with the county, opened a new branch named after the city.

According to Jeffries, the Mission Trail branch received 152,401 visits and patrons checked out 73,961 items in the year ending June 30.

Contact the writer: 951-368-9690 or michaelwilliams@pe.com


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