Wiarton’s Deep Water Gallery needs to raise money and find more volunteers, co-founder Joe Vanderzand said.

There’s a fundraising gala Nov. 21 to kick off what founders intend to be a more financially secure, continuing celebration of the arts and economic driver for Wiarton.

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Begun almost seven years ago, the gallery on Wiarton’s main street is publicly funded. Its board of directors is a committee of the Wiarton & District Chamber of Commerce, whose not-for-profit status lets the gallery apply for grants.

“(W)e have come to realize that we’ve come to a stage in our growth cycle where we need greater support as we have outgrown our ability to just run and rely on our volunteers,” Vanderzand said in an invitation to the gala.

“We need operational funding to do some h

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