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Thank you to our donors for 2025-26:
Dickie Anderson
Anonymous donors
Margaret Angelo
Russell Baker
Michael and Beth Belle
Mark Bennett
Edward Boner
Joe and Maggie Carlson
Lori Cabell
Deborah Ceccarelli
Donald Centrone
Johanna Cleary
Leigh and Wallace Cranford
Susan P. Davies
Sharon Davis
James Devine
Greg Doyle
Patricia Ezzell
Virginia Feazell
Richard Feeney
Pamela Fox
Paul Fredrickson
Harley Freeman
Ruth Gregory
Stephen Heuser
Frances Hindsley
Eugene Janicke
Michael Kersten
Charles T. Jones II
Daniel Lehmann
Jo-Ann Leimberg
Richard Levine
Thomas Lohman
Kathryn Long
Warren Mattiello
Anita McCarthy
Susan McCutcheon
Susan McGrath-Smith
Joyce Menz
Ann Millar
Dale Neibaur
William O'Donnell
P-B Antiques LLC
George Pennell II
David Petulla
Sheri Pierson
Charles Pimsner
Robert L. Pitman
Jean Pugh
Susan H. Raab
Suzanne Ray
Michele Reuter
Sharon Roan
Michael Rodriguez
Rotary Club of Fernandina Beach
Andrea Ryan
Karen Schaffner
Lee Sherman
Robert Sherretta
Patricia Siberski
Bruce Stambaugh
Diane Stoecker
Richard W. Talkov
Lou Tharin
Jeffrey Tyson
George VanArsdale
Wayne Walker
Maryann Wright