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ART GALLERY The current showings, until March 19th, are "Home and Abroad" by Pamela Scott and Canadian Prairie Paintings" by Margery Powell. Pamela Scott is an established career painter and well known in the lower mainland. She trained at Kingston-on-Hull College of Art, England and came to Canada after the war. She first lived in Calgary and later moved to B.C. where she was supervisor of children's art at the Burnaby Arts Centre. She has taught art to handicapped students; lectured for the UBC extramural programmes, taught at New Westminster and Burnaby night schools and many other classes; illustrated magazines and two books. She teaches a class at the West Vancouver Seniors' Centre but otherwise is retired and paints full time. Her favorite places to paint are at home in West Vancouver, old English churches and cottages, scenes in both London and Paris, and the South of France. Margery Powell was born in Lloydminister, Saskatchewan. She started the West Vancouver Children's Art School in 1960 which she ran until 1966. She co-owned "Handcraft House", an arts and crafts store and school in North Vancouver from 1967-1978. In 1970 she opened "Neat Things Studio and Shop" in West Vancouver and created "Wearable Art". Since 1985 she has enjoyed working in her studio at home in West Vancouver. All of her 14 watercolours and monoprints were done between 1992 and 1995 and are not for sale. Starting on March 20th and continuing until April 9th, the work of R. Doost Esfahani will be exhibited. R. Doost Esfahani was born in Esfahan, Iran and has a Diploma of Fine Art College, Esfahan, Iran and a B.F.A., from Fine Arts College, Tehran University, Iran. The artist has experience in miniature painting, traditional Persian Art and Islamic Design with over 30 individual and group exhibitions in Iran, Kuwait, U.A.E., Holland and Canada. The Friends will host the artist's reception on Monday, March 20th, 2000 at 7:30 p.m. RECOGNITION EVENT Your invitation is enclosed for the Annual Volunteer Recognition Event. This is in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the WVML's Volunteer Program and 50 years of the Friends of the Library. It will be held -- Friday April 7, 2000 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Main Hall of the Library Please mark this date on your calendar and be sure to come. The next meeting of The Friends will be on Wednesday March 22, 2000 at 7 p.m. in the Library's Peters Meeting Room Editor - Mary Holland Printing & Circulation - Maureen Eagle Contributing Writers - Sophia Weremchuk Mary Holland Ted Hill