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JANUARY 17, 2018 XX NO.21

Village News

Without her...

Betty Matthews Lobby

t takes patience, perseverance and diplomacy to bring a dream could shine on local and regional talent and showcase the visual and
to fruition. Betty Matthews showed those qualities in her performing arts while also presenting a venue for lectures and forums.
Iefforts, and now she is being recognized for her work. Hugh Matthews recruited Cline, a long-time Chester resident noted for
Cline, board chairman of the Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation owning Cline Appliances, to be the chairman of the foundation to raise
the money that the county required before they would start the project.
BY MARK FAUSZ VILLAGE NEWS announced recently that the lobby/gallery of the new Baxter Perkinson Center for the Arts after Betty," said Cline. "She has kept
Now it’s time to build.
Perkinson Center for the Arts will be named in her honor.
"We are very thrilled to be naming the lobby of the Baxter
A Chester resident since the late 1970s, she took up the mantle
of Larry and Dottie Armstrong, who were the heart and soul of
this arts center alive for so many years and has been instrumental
The John Rolfe Players, a theater group in need of a permanent
performance space in Chester and unable to find it.
in the project getting it to where it is. Now only months away from
breaking ground, as a board, it is the least we can do in hopes of
Matthews will humbly tell you that she wanted her community
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to thrive, and that an arts center would be a place where a spotlight
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