ImagineIF Foundation hits $400,000 fundraising milestone

Fundraising is 30 percent complete for renovations to the future home of the ImagineIF Library in Bigfork. The ImagineIF Library Foundation purchased the Bethany Lutheran Church Ark Building for $475,000 in December 2018 and hopes to raise another $1.2 million to transform the 6,000-square-foot space into a library. The foundation had hoped to gift the building to the county, provided that the county increase the library system’s current annual budget by $40,000 to $50,000, which foundation officials said would be necessary to open the new facility.