The St. Lawrence Celebrates it's 3rd Birthday with some
Posted Wednesday October 06, 2004
On May 10, 2001 The St. Lawrence Arts & Community Center opened with the Acorn Productions show 'Much Ado About Nothing' This past May, we began to celebrate our third birthday by giving The St. Lawrence a little TLC and continued finishing up work that always seems to be in progress. Three years of almost daily use has caused a bit of wear and tear. As many of you know, we operate on a shoestring and fixing the old St. Lawrence, while trying to operate the Parish Hall Theater with it's full schedule of events is a challenge. We certainly could not do it without the help of volunteers and the donations we receive, like that of Maine and family owned Hancock Lumber who donated all the lumber to finish the baseboard and waincotting in the uppper and lower lobbies of the St. Lawrence.

Matt Meeds, USM Techical Director spent the summer installing the waincotting, with some help from Tom Vail, a St. Lawrence long time volunteer.

Craig Robinson, who was one of the carpenters who was part of the team that built in the theater three years ago, has been donating his carpentry and time here for the past 3 1/2 years and Steve Underwood, of Good Theater and a man of so many talents continues to do all he can to keep the St. Lawrence looking professional.

Tim Trott has donated painting in the lower lobby along and Louise Fox, Stephan Bloom, Deirdre Nice, Bobby Lipps, Suzanne Nason and her son, Joe Hallock, Steve Underwood and a few others painted the waincotting and baseboard that Hancock Lumber so generously donated.

Janet Montgomery, Set Designer for our theater in residence, donated two beautiful murals in the mens and womens rooms in our lower hall. If you are out for a walk, come on in just to check these beautiful works of art out.

A group called TENT traded work for use of the space this past summer and painted the theater, installed curtains, installed doorbells, updated some outlets for us, and so much more.

When you visit the St. Lawrence next, I hope you will enjoy all the improvements we made in celebration of our 3rd birthday and move into our fourth year of operation.