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CANYON LAKE’S NEWSPAPER • APRIL 6, 2018

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PHOTO BY JILL TORKELSON

Fine Arts Guild board members, Corrie Tutt, Sue Bonner and Ron Martel, present a donated funds will go toward the cost of building a new amphitheater at Holiday Harbor
$25,000 check to POA board members, Dale Welty, at left, and Paul Queen, at right. The Park. Construction of the new amphitheater is scheduled to begin in May.
POA approves new amphitheater

BY DONNA RITCHIE will be built on the hillside overlook- At the Mar. 6 Regular Session Board er free concert for the community this
EDITOR, THE FRIDAY FLYER ing the lake. Every Canyon Laker who Meeting, the board approved $68,822 summer. “Margaritaville by the Lake,”
The Canyon Lake POA Board of enjoys music and the outdoors should plus five percent contingency from the featuring a Jimmy Buffet tribute band,
Directors unanimously approved a pro- benefit from this stunning new amenity. Capital Improvement fund for the new will be held on Saturday, July 21, at the
posal from the Canyon Lake Fine Arts At the direction of the POA Board six-level venue. The cost includes step new amphitheater.
Guild to build a new amphitheater for the of Directors, especially directors Dale lights, a conduit for stage lights and The new amphitheater will be the sec-
community at Holiday Harbor Park. The Welty and Paul Queen, drawings were sound, irrigation and drainage. The Fine ond one built at Holiday Harbor Park.
proposal included a $25,000 donation created by POA General Manager Eric Arts Guild’s donation will help to reduce Many decades ago, the park was home
from the Fine Arts Guild to go toward Kazakoff and Steve Schneider of the this planned expenditure by $25,000. to the Village Store. Developers built a
the cost of the venue. The amphitheater POA Operations Department. The new amphitheater will serve as a 300-seat amphitheater near the store to
venue for many events in the communi- hold special events.
ty including the POA’s six movie nights According to Elinor Martin, Canyon
and the Fine Arts Guild’s free concerts. Lake historian and author of “Images of
It’s also likely this new venue could be- America Canyon Lake,” the amphithe-
come a POA billable venue for events ater only held one performance and it
such as weddings, receptions and other was by Mimi’s School of Starts, a Norco
gala events. dance group.
The amphitheater was later removed
Last summer, the Fine Arts Guild and the area became part of what is
sponsored “Hot August Night” at Holi-
PHOTO PROVIDED BY RON MARTEL Jr. Woman’s Club and Family Matters day Harbor Park.
know known as the beach area at Holi-
day Harbor Park in conjunction with the
Many years later, long-time resident
Club. The event included a free concert
Dorothy Cable noticed the slope be-
for the community featuring “Fleetwood
tween the snack bar facility and shore-
Mac” tribute band “Little Lies.” It was
estimated that 1,000 people were in at-
As members of the Fine Arts Guild
tendance. line could be a perfect outdoor venue.
Based on the success of that event, Board of Directors, she and husband
The new amphitheater will serve as a venue to many POA and club events. the Fine Arts Guild is sponsoring anoth- uuCONTINUED PAGE A4