Dear friends of the Arts and Culture in the South County area,

This will be the final post for the ACA, as we are disbanding. I realize the economic times are tough on everyone, but support for the projects of the organization are at an all-time low, and we are also having extreme difficulty finding both active Board Members, and project chairmen, and without them, we cannot exist.

I would like to thank several of the long-standing members who have always supported the organization:

1. Mary Stanley, Barbara Freeman, Jean Trammell, Ellen Hillstrom, Lynn Moseley, and Kathleen Winder

2. Charter Members:The Hermitage, the Venice Symphony, the Venice Theatre, Northern Trust Bank, the Venice Historical Society, the Venice Concert Band, the NPAAG- now, the North Port Art Center, the Venice Gondoliers Barbershop Chorus, Babs Taliaferro-Potter, Yvonne Pinkerton, the Libraries, Gretchen Spangenburg, Cornelia Vercheski, Caroline Zucker, Erika Williams, Eric Watters, Shannon Staub, Dorothy Korwek, Cathy Beausoliel, Bill & Kate Korp & Lois Roe Masters.

3. Members who did an outstanding job: Tracey Viviano, Donna Bath, Kathy Cellura, Carol Marie Davis, Leanna Martin, Vee Gary-Chuilli, Louise Hall, Mary Moyer, Ernie Skinner, Karen Hitt, Rhonda Fearns, Carolyn Ledbetter, Coleen Henry, Barbara O’Brien, Drenna Rosenthal & Cindy Reynolds . And YOU, the members who helped out in many other ways- thank you!!

I hope that all of you will continue to support the Arts and Culture of our area. If I left your name out, I am so sorry. We will try to repay some of your membership dues, and repay any contributions to the organization. Any remaining money will go to youth art scholarships in North Port, Venice, and Englewood.

Bonnie Kaiser

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