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We cooked out!
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Holt was certainly hungry, but
not just for hot dogs and potato
salad. After the overwhelming
success of its first Community
Cookout Fundraiser, Holt
Community Arts Council leaders
have no doubt that the people of
Holt are looking to connect with
other community members and
participate in the
arts. |
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The Arts Council fed nearly 400
people at its cookout on
Thursday, July 31, and another
600 or so attended that night’s
installment of Music in the
Garden, which featured Three Men
and a Tenor. |
'Music in the Garden'
This summer, the Holt Community Arts Council
will present a series of four free
family-friendly concerts in the Veterans
Memorial Gardens amphitheater. The series,
Music in the Garden, will feature a variety
of popular first-rate acts from around
Michigan.
Plans are in the works to have a cookout
fundraiser for the arts council immediately
preceding the show on July 31.
The arts council is and
hopefully always will be a
grassroots, community
endeavor. We can’t
make a project like Music in
the Garden a success without
volunteers. If you
would like to help staff the
concerts email us at
holtarts@holtarts.org
Featured performers are:
Orquesta Ritmo
"Michigan's Premier Salsa
Orchestra
- 11 piece band!"
Thursday, June 19
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Those Delta Rhythm Kings
Award-winning jump
blues/swing band
Thursday, July 17
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Three Men and a Tenor
Nationally recognized 4-man
vocal group
(gates
open at 5:30 p.m. for a
community cookout fundraiser
for the arts council)
Thursday, July 31
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Shout Sister Shout: Steppin'
In It with Rachael Davis
Critically acclaimed
four-man acoustic band,
playing bluegrass, folk and
blues,
together with a phenomenal
soul/jazz singer.
Sunday, August 10
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Build Gill Goes Swimmingly
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Nearly 1,200 visitors attended
the POTW Water Quality Awareness
Open House on May 10. And some
of those visitors took part in a
fish story unlike any other –
the completion of “Gill,” a
sculpture of a giant blue gill. |
With the help of Holt Community Arts Council
volunteers, participants attached several
hundred recyclable laundry bottles to a
fish-shaped metal frame designed by Joe
Keeley of the Public Services Department.
The completed multi-colored Gill sculpture
stands a little over 15-feet in height, and
it is approximately 25-feet long. It was
constructed near the township water
treatment plant on the concrete pad that is
usually the site of the township’s recycling
center.
Gill will live on – at least temporarily –
as a mobile mascot of sorts for the Holt
Community Arts Council.
See the Projects Page
for more pictures of this exciting project.
Bylaws adopted, first board elected
The Holt Community Arts
Council is now “official.” At its April 9
meeting, the group passed its
Bylaws and
elected its first Board. These are both
important steps toward obtaining non-profit
status from the IRS.
The Bylaws
provide for the Board to set dues, and this
topic was taken up at the Board’s first
meeting on April 21. The Board decided to
seek voluntary dues from its supporters to
give the Arts Council some much needed
operating revenue. In turn, the first dues
payers would receive “charter membership.”
Details regarding dues collection are still
being worked out, but the suggested amounts
approved were $15 for students 25 years old
and younger and seniors 60 years and older;
$25 for individuals; $40 for family
memberships; and $75 for business
memberships. Watch the website for more
information.
The Arts
Council’s new leaders are Michael Belt,
Sandra Diorka, Leann Heywood, Kara Hope,
Jane Olney, and George Orban. There are
still three remaining spots on the Board.
If you would like to help guide the Arts
Council through its very important first
year, please contact Kara Hope at
holtcac@yahoo.com.
Interim
officers were selected at the Board’s first
meeting. They are President Kara Hope, Vice
President George Orban, Treasurer Michael
Belt, and Secretary Leann Heywood.
Arts Council receives donation
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The Holt
Community
Arts
Council
thanks
Amanda
Hayhoe-Kruger
and
Hayhoe
Asphalt
Paving
for
their
generous
donation
toward
the
council’s
startup
costs.
Amanda
presented
the
check at
the
council’s
February
meeting.
Pictured,
from
left to
right,
are
George
Orban,
Jeff
Miller,
Amanda Hayhoe-Kruger,
Leann
Heywood,
Kara
Hope,
and Inge
Kyler. |
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