LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Corvettes of Lake County club has once again shown support for a fund to remember the life of a local businesswoman.

This past Memorial Day weekend the Corvettes club shined and showed cars, won awards, had 52 cars in attendance and made a $1,500 donation to Lake Family Resource Center through the Barbara LaForge Memorial Fund.

For the past six years the Corvettes of Lake County has made generous donations to the LaForge Memorial Fund, which benefits Lake Family Resource Center's Freedom House domestic violence shelter in Kelseyville.

The fund – the motto of which is “It's never too late to be remembered” – started with one raffle ticket, according to memorial fund founder and Corvettes of Lake County member Gail Salituri.

“That one ticket grew into raffles and auctions and the 'Charity of Choice' by the Corvettes of Lake County,” Salituri said.

LaForge's frame shop shared space with Salituri's Inspirations Gallery in downtown Lakeport. In October 2002 LaForge was fatally shot in the frame shop. Her murder remains unsolved.

Over the years the Corvettes of Lake County has helped to furnish rooms in the shelter, build rain gutters, provided funds for the rape crisis center and helped build a playground for the children, and now is supplying fences to secure the outdoor playground.

“We have raised over $15,500 for Lake Family Resource Center and I am as always grateful for the generosity of the Corvettes of Lake County,” Salituri said.