One of the first libraries Melissa McCollum ever visited was in the town of Bowen, Illinois, where her grandmother lived.“She would come back with a big stack of Harlequin romances,” McCollum recalled with a smile, inside her office in the Manhattan Beach library.There was also the public library in Des Moines, Iowa, where she grew up.
South Bay Boardriders stretches out to community
Special Contributor
April 9, 2026
