Big 12 gives Heronville Elementary a library makeover

Heronville students investigate their new library Tuesday morninng. (Photo by Berry Tramel)Oklahoma City mayor David Holt stood in the remade Heronville Elementary School media center and reminded the assembled dignitaries, school officials and sixth-graders what the Big 12 Conference had not donated to the school just southwest of downtown OKC.

Athletic equipment.

“The Big 12 is a collection of educational institutions,” Holt said. “The library is a most fitting recognition of that.”

And then Holt asked for a student volunteer. Up popped Roselin Valdez. Holt handed her a book, took one himself and christened the new library by standing with Valdez before falling backwards onto a giant beanbag…