The Hartley Sentinel-The Everly/Royal News - Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties

Angie Heikens loves turning pages, whether in a good book or in life.

The rural May City woman took over as director of the Hartley Public Library last week. Her rise to the top was quick – she started as the facility's youth program director in January and was recently approached by the board when the head position opened up.

"I originally said no, but I thought about it some more and realized I hadn't really been challenged for a while," Heikens said. "I came around to the idea and said let's do this."

Heikens had no prior library experience when she took the youth program director pos...