A long-standing volunteer group from Woodstock is retiring.
WOODSTOCK - After 50 years, a well known volunteer group is retiring.
The Friends of the Woodstock Art Gallery have put their time into promoting visual art.
Curator and Director of the Woodstock Art Gallery Mary Reid says that the group has two major aspects they fundraised for.
"Two of the things that the friends have always fundraised for is one; to purchase works for the art gallery's permanent collection and the second one, and more importantly; is the establishment of the visual arts scholarship award which they award every year to a high school student that is graduating."
Their efforts gave them the 2016 June Callwood Outstanding Award for Voluntarism.
They will leave behind a legacy fund to continue to help art students got to post-secondary for art.
Though the reserve will be handled by the city, Reid says it will be the art gallery choosing the winners.
"Obviously they are the stewarts of the funds in terms of that but now the responsibility in terms of adjudicating who gets the award, facilitating the award will fall under the auspices of the Woodstock Art Gallery Advisory Board."
The official retirement celebration will take place on November 10th.

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