19th Edition
October 2017
Tables Turned on Shuswap Community Foundation it was able to award grants back into the By Ineke Hughes community in excess of $108,00. A donaArts Council for the South Shuswap tion to SCF can be designated to a specific (ACSS) turned the tables on Shuswap community organization. Community Foundation (SCF) at the The Arts Council, incorporated in foundation’s Annual Community Meeting 2013, has been busy creating a vibrant held September 28 at the Elks Hall in cultural scene in the South Shuswap. After Salmon Arm. significant renovations to the lower floor ACSS Administrator Karen Brown of Carlin Hall, FACES Fine Arts & Culand Treasurer Debbie Reeves were pretural Experiences in the Shuswap was sented with a grant provided by the SCF relocated there, offerEndowment to help ing classes in art, with the construction dance, and music to of a mobile communikids and adults alike. ty stage. The tables The studio is also were turned when the home to Music in the ACSS presented the Bay, the highly popuFoundation with lar summer music $8,200 to establish an series, the South endowment fund for Shuswap Children’s the ACSS. Choir, the Shuswap When the fund Lake Culture Crawl reaches $10,000, the and the South Shusinterest it accrues as part of the foundawap Children’s Theatre Troupe. The tion’s capital fund will council also assisted be returned to ACSS Karen Brown stands beside Frank Antoine annually. The Founda- as he reads out the winning ticket for the this year in seeking tion has amassed over Westjet Gift of Flight during a Dinner, Dance out funds to start up & Live Auction fundraising event. It was the the Shuswap Artisan $8.2 million in the gift of flight and the auction proceeds that (Continued on page 3) past 30 years. In 2016, gave ACSS the monies to open up the
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