The recently elected officers for the 2013/2014 Program Year and one three-year director will join directors Irene Doub and Addison Austin once they are installed at the May 30th Installation of Officers at LaBelle Heritage Museum’s annual membership dinner to be held on the museum grounds at 360 North Bridge Street. Addison Austin, acting as former LHM president, will install Joe Thomas as president, Elinor Jones as vice president, Ron Zimmerly as treasurer, and Martha Ratliff as secretary for one year terms as well as Lynda Rider Smith for a three year term as director.
LHM members, supporters, and their guests will enjoy a potluck dinner under the oaks at the rear of the 1913 William Hardy Poole Dry Goods Emporium that serves as the anchor of the LaBelle Heritage Museum Complex in the Downtown LaBelle Historic District. President Thomas will report on the 2012/2013 program year’s successful events and the current plans for moving the 1905 George Aiken house that served not only as the pioneer local blacksmith’s home as well as housing Paul Eddy, first editor of LaBelle’s original weekly newspaper and first Hendry County School Superintendent, before becoming home to attorney H. A. Rider who served as county attorney, Hendry County Judge, and Mayor of LaBelle over a career spanning some forty-odd years, and Rider’s 1935 law office.