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For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time living in the 70s and 80s. The 1970s and 1980s. And for once, that’s not a painful typo sometimes made by history museums—nope, I’ve been looking at our recent past. (/images/postimages/clnd_307_1.gif) This year marks the 40th Candlelight. Round numbers tend to excite us history types. It’s not often that we take the time to reflect on our institutional history, and it’s even rarer for one single event to last so long. So, we’re having some fun with it—we’ve ordered a special anniversary ornament (featuring Nip and Tuck), Barbara is making special anniversary clothespin dolls, and we’re putting together an exhibit called Candlelight Memor ..

In two previous blog posts I talked about our fund raising efforts as we closed out our fiscal year (September 30). I can now report that we have had a successful financial year and have finished “in the black” for the second year in succession. In these troubled economic times, we consider this quite a feat! As for our End of Year Campaign, we raised approximately $75,000, falling short of our $85,000 goal. Despite this shortfall, we were very pleased to raise $75,000, and relieved that we were able to raise this amount of money during a month where the stock market was in free fall. To all of our donors who braved a very turbulent month and still donated $75,000 to our campaign, we are eternally grateful! So, how did we fall short of our c ..