You can donate money to help upkeep VC Community Hall




VC Community Hall viewed from the front, which faces on Lilac Road.

VC Community Hall viewed from the front, which faces on Lilac Road.

VC Community Hall, that squat, ugly virtually indestructible seeming building that is almost like a mother to our town, so familiar are so many people with its solid walls and comforting ambience, needs your help to maintain it and repair it.

Nearing a century old, the venerable hall is used almost constantly several times a week. There is now a charitable non-profit that can accept your tax deductible donations and turn them into cash to help keep the hall in repair.

The Valley Center Building Committee dates back to 1982. Despite its ominous sounding name (ominous for no-growthers, anyway), the committee is only concerned with one building, VC Community Hall.

The building is part of the Valley Center Parks & Rec District, which maintains it. However the district is notoriously short of maintenance funds and so it can use any outside assistance it can get. The building was the second schoolhouse in Valley Center built in 1922. It was built after the one-room school burnt down in the late 1800’s.

According to the committee’s chairman, Erick Jockinsen, “We don’t do condos. We don’t do anything but help maintain this building, your heritage.” Jockinsen was speaking Monday evening to the VC Community Planning Group, which uses the building once a month.

He explained that although the committee was formed in 1982 that it hadn’t really done much of anything for the last 15 years and was only revived recently. “We know that the name is ominous, but now that you know what it is hopefully you will speak nicely of it.”

He added that not only money but labor can be donated to benefit the hall. “Let us know what you are good at. Remember, it’s your building. You live here. We need your help.”

There is a Paypal button on the site if you want to make a quick donation. The website is www.vcbc.net/ On the website you will also find a wish list of things that the Parks & Rec District would like to repair in the building.


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