This January Kathy
Santini was appointed the GVPL’s board liaison to the Friends. Kathy was first
appointed as a City of Victoria citizen rep in January 2014 and is very proud
of the services provided by GVPL’s hard working and innovative staff.
She credits her Mom
Pat with jumpstarting her love of books and reading. When she was six, on a
train trip from Calgary to Vancouver, her Mom challenged her to finish the book
Black Beauty before they were picked up by her grandparents at the train
station. Kathy lost the bet, but a love affair with books began.
Kathy is a
voracious reader who only reads fiction on beach vacations, preferring
biographies, autobiographies and travel books. She loves to travel and no, she
isn’t looking for a 12-step program for people who travel too much, because how
can you travel too much? She spent the majority of her career as a journalist
and p.r. professional, working in Afghanistan, California, Arizona, Nanaimo,
Duncan and Victoria. And while others
would say she’s retired, she herself doesn’t like the term, because who wants
to claim an identity with the word, “tired,” in it? She prefers the term
jubilado; Spanish for retired.
Kathy really
enjoyed participating in her first book sale and working with the Friends’ dedicated
volunteers. She commented that it ran like a well-oiled machine and she is
looking forward to the next sale in June.
