LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – At a special general membership meeting on April 11, it was voted unanimously to change the name of Clear Lake Performing Arts to one more descriptive of the organization’s current role in the community.

Donna Moeller, a former two-time president of CLPA, said the 40-year-old name no longer reflected its original mission statement.

“When CLPA was founded we were basically the only music game in town,” she said. “One of our main activities was to import classical music programs, which we presented in schools and churches. But now other organizations and companies have taken on that task, leaving us to basically promote and support our excellent symphony orchestra, and the youth orchestra and other youth music activities as well as the beginners’ music programs, that will one day feed the symphony.”

Moeller took the lead in revising the by-laws for the newly-named Lake County Symphony Association.

“Although the name change is effective immediately it will probably be another six months before the current supplies of printed materials are reduced, and a new design developed before the new name will be universal,” said President Ed Bublitz.