Hello Artists and Art Supporters,

Thank you to all of those of you who were able to come to the Lake County Board of Supervisors meeting today to support this new tourism plan. This was really, I think, a historical day and I’m glad I had the opportunity to attend this meeting. I think all of us, who attended, can say that everyone who came to this meeting supported Dan Fenton and Debra Sommerfield’s plan and had a part in showing the Board that this was a good plan that needed to be approved. The Board was impressed by the plan, with the turnout and all of the good positive things that everyone had to say about it. The energy and enthusiasm was great. Everyone wanted to get it started as soon as possible. So, that’s where it stands. The Supervisors approved it!

Because this meeting was about getting this tourism plan accepted, I didn’t spend much time, with my very short speech, talking about our plans or what we could do as artists. I did say that Lake County Artists were excited about it and have already worked together to organize our own plans to coincide with theirs. I said that we wanted to support and participate with theirs. I handed out copies of our plans to the Board of Supervisors so that they could read about them. Thank you, Karen Turcotte, Cheryle Trammell and Beth Tompkins who, also, had the courage to put in good words about the importance of artists being included in the tourist plan. Thank you, Cheryle Trammell, for picking up and driving Renee Geare to the meeting with her broken leg and all. Thank you, Renee Geare, for braving the trip, broken leg and all and again for putting together our Artists Plans into a very impressive order. Thank you, again, to quite a few of you artists who attended. I could tell that Dan and Debra were grateful that we came to show our support. Thank you to those of you who couldn’t come but were sending out your good thoughts and wishes.

After the meeting I talked with Dan and said that we would continue to work on our projected plans so that we would be ready when they were ready for us. He agreed that that would be the best thing to do. Who knows how long that will take them but there’s no reason why we can’t get more organized ourselves right now. Quite a few of you have already started on some of these projects. Please keep us posted on your progress, or if you need more help. I think it works best if each of us pick out what we feel comfortable doing as anything will help the cause. If you let us know what you are doing others might be interested in helping.

I would like to continue to connect anyone who is interested in similar projects. Linda Kelly has plans to meet with the Kelseyville Business Association at their meeting on Monday November 14th at 6pm at Guido’s Pizza on Live Oak Dr. in Kelseyville to talk about art in vacant store front windows. Cheryle Trammell and I plan on going and if anyone else would like to go, so you can get ideas on how to do it in your own area, that would be great and it would, also, help to support Linda for the artists’ cause.

If you have not had an opportunity to review the final draft plan, you may download a copy by following the link below.

 To download the Lake County Economic Development Marketing Strategic Plan:

Go to www.strategicadvisorygroup.net

Click on “Client Login” at upper right corner

Select username: Lake County

Enter Password: lakecounty

Click the Login button

If you are using Internet Explorer, you may receive an error message, simply click the Refresh button and you should see the Lake County folder.

Doubleclick to open the folder, and then doubleclick on the file to download Lake_County_Report_102111_b



Enough good stuff for now!

Sherry Harris