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RANGELEY — Participants in the Rangeley Friends of the Arts Creative After School Arts program will host a fundraiser to support the Franklin County Animal Shelter from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9, at the Lakeside Theater, during Mountain Holly Days.
One of the goals of the program is to encourage responsible citizenship, as well as encourage sustainability, the organization said in a news release. “At the root of that lesson are good deeds in action,” the release said. The fundraiser for the shelter, in Farmington, will be the first project with this goal the students have worked on.
“Our business model has been to work with basic supplies, to recycle materials and uncover opportunities to repurpose what’s at hand to keep costs minimal and give the students an imaginative, self-directed experience,” the release said. “The students are being encouraged to recruit help, ask for donations, promote the fundraiser and have ownership of every detail. It’s also been an artistic outlet and a character building opportunity.”
The hand-painted rock series the students will be selling can serve as weights for desktops and tarps or anything that’s needs support, as well as gifts, worry stones and inspiration, the RFA said. There will be handmade Christmas crafts, snow globes, fragrant sachets, baked items etc. The students will also collect linens, towels, pet collars, leashes, pet toys etc., as well as cash and check donations. “The focus is to allow these students to have ownership of this effort with support and encouragement from CASA volunteers and staff,” the release said.
Individual donations of sewing, baking, crafts are welcome toward this effor and can be dropped off at the theater before 10 a.m. Dec. 9.
For more information about CASA, visit rangeleyarts.org, call 207-864-5000 or email rangeleyarts@gmail.com.
