iPad Winner: Jane Chase of Jamesville
(Earlville, NY – Sept. 2014) Jane Chase of Jamesville was laughing when she arrived at the Opera House to pick up her iPad recently. This was her third trip to the Opera House this summer.
Her first trip was to see The Revelers of Louisiana with their rockin’ Cajun music in May.
“They were wonderful,” she said.
Her second trip to the Opera House was to see singer-songwriter John McCutcheon in July.
On one of these two visits she bought an iPad raffle ticket that would be drawn at the symbolic end of summer – Labor Day.
Chase is a volunteer for the WCNY public station in Syracuse. She bid on two separate sets of tickets donated by the Earlville Opera House to the station for their annual TelAuc fundraiser in the spring. She hadn’t been to the Opera House before, but she says that she’ll be coming back again.
“I’m thrilled,” Chase said. “I don’t have an iPad or a smart phone – this will be a new ‘generation’ of technology for me. I’m catching up with my grandkids and my kids.”
The Earlville Opera House is deeply grateful for everyone who took a chance on a kid this summer by buying a raffle ticket. The sales of the iPad raffle tickets helped to support free programs for youth at the Earlville Awesome House.
Bid on the Future of the Arts
You are invited to join your friends and neighbors and fellow patrons of the arts Friday, Sept. 26, at the Colgate Inn for a silent auction to benefit the Opera House. Enjoy complimentary wine, beer and hors d’oeuvres generously provided by the Colgate Inn, listen to live music and bid on artwork, local crafts, food, trips, antiques and services from babysitting to legal counsel, all donated by friends of the Opera House.
For more than 40 years, Earlville Opera House has been a mecca for arts and entertainment in rural central New York. Housed in a restored, historic, late-19th-century structure on Main Street in the Village of Earlville, the Opera House offers classes for children and adults; exhibits the work of local, regional and national artists; and stages performances ranging from community theater to nationally renowned musicians.
Here are some sample items: an airplane ride, a kayak trip, local farm products, child care, legal services, music lessons, cooking lessons, Nantucket market basket, massages, large bowl by Ede Walker, tickets to upcoming shows, golf for four, a home-baked pie per month for a year, Colgate Athletic basket with game tickets, t-shirts, sweatshirts & more, quilted wall hanging, children’s basket, Among Stones jewelry, Golden Artists Acylic paint basket, Watercolor paint basket and Oil paint basket, Tumbleweed Gumbo concert at your house party or outdoor event, 1 month fitness pass, wine, 2 hours studio recording, Blue Parsley Boys a capella music for your party or event, 4 hours architectural consultation, including concept drawings and much, much more.
Idle and abandoned for more than two decades before it was saved from demolition in 1971, the Opera House has been rehabilitated and sustained through volunteer effort and the generosity of members and friends, and it has become a beacon for the arts in our community.
Mark your calendar for Friday, Sept. 26, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15, and you’ll be fostering the arts in your hometown.
Tickets are available at Evergreen Gallery, 11 Lebanon St., Hamilton, or via the Earlville Opera House through 315.691.3550 or earlvilleoperahouse.com or by seeing one of our board members Roger Bauman, Suzanne Collins, Ruth Ann Loveless, Dode Page, Lara Scott, Jonathan Vaughn, Merle von Wettberg, Bruce Ward or Shirley Zimmer.