We All Scream for Ice Cream on August 18

Come one, come all, to the second annual Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Social fundraiser for the Performing Arts Foundation! This year, we'll be scooping ice cream during the Richland Farmers' Market, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 18, at the Richland Area Community Center. Come into the cool of RACC's kitchen/sunroom area to enjoy delicious Plainwell Ice Cream, hand dipped by your faithful PAF volunteers, and to hear the amazing Leslie Gogel (PAC '02) play her beautiful harp. There may be other surprise musical guests dropping in as well . . . you'll have to be there to hear for yourself! Suggested donation for ice cream is $2 per person or $5 per family. So come out this Wednesday for a great afternoon of fresh fruits and vegetables, gorgeous just-picked flowers, AND ice cream and music!

Your presence requested at PAF meeting Tuesday

You are urged even more enthusiastically than usual to join us at the monthly GLCS Performing Arts Foundation meeting this Tuesday, August 11, at 6:30 p.m. at the Richland Area Community Center, 9400 East CD Avenue. Why? Well, it's our last meeting before our big--and fun!--fundraiser, Americana in August, next Sunday, August 16. We'll be discussing the logistics--which will mostly involve taking donations and scooping the cold stuff for the old-fashioned ice cream social--and trying on our (fake) straw boaters. You're invited to pitch in! If you'd like to volunteer for Sunday but can't make it to Tuesday's meeting, please contact Jan Watson (mjwats4@aol.com).

Then we'll see EVERYONE for a great afternoon of barbershop harmony by the Kalamazoo Barbershop Chorus, ice cream, and great American artworks on Sunday, August 16, from 2 to 5 p.m. at RACC. Your suggested donation of $5 ($10 for the whole family) will get you a free ice cream cone and all the fun you can stand. Even better, the whole event goes to support arts education for kids in our school district. Come on out!

PAF meeting March 10

Much ado about many things! Please join us at the regular meeting of the Performing Arts Foundation on Tuesday, March 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Richland Area Community Center, 9400 East CD Avenue. Among the items for discussion will be a barbershop harmony fundraising event paired with an old-fashioned ice cream social; an open-mike night for poetry, prose, and music at RACC; the Gull Lake Fine Arts Alumni reunion in May; and grant requests. All fun, all good, all mean the arts are hopping in Richland. Hope you'll be there.