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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation Taps Experienced Nonprofit Professional as its First Executive Director.

LANCASTER, PA -- Lancaster nonprofit executive Judy W. Smith has been named executive director of the Long?s Park Amphitheater Foundation. This is the Foundation's first executive director in its 48 year history. She will join one other paid staff member, a volunteer board and hundreds of community volunteers to lead its operations and fundraising activities. Her appointment was announced by Bradley A. Zuke, Esq., president of the Foundation.

Until the recent, regional consolidation of the Arthritis Foundation, Judy Smith was interim co-executive director of its Central Pennsylvania chapter. She formerly served as their development director based in Lancaster for 23 years.

Judy Smith attended Western College for Women and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for Interior Design. She is a graduate of Manheim Township High School and has been a Lancaster County resident for most of her life.

Also an accomplished watercolor, pastel and mixed media artist, Smith maintains a home studio for her work. She has studied under many local artists, including Paula Egolf, a frequent exhibitor at the Long's Park Art & Craft Festival.

Judy Smith has taught at the Lancaster Museum of Art and Lancaster County Art Association. She holds many awards for her paintings, including a first place watercolor honor from the Lititz Outdoor Art Show and others from the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and Landis Woods Outdoor Art Show.

Judy Smith resides with her husband R. Randall Smith in Lancaster.

The nonprofit Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation was founded in 1962 when it was spun off the Lancaster Sertoma Club to maintain and stage performances at the amphitheater. That same year the Foundation launched the popular, free Long's Park Summer Music Series. Today, the 13-week season of music is primarily underwritten by the Long's Park Art & Craft Festival which the Foundation began in 1979. That Labor Day weekend event is now on the nation's leading fine art and craft shows. Art Fair SourceBook, the leading national rating organization, recently announced that ranked the No. 3 fine art show in the country and America's No. 6 fine craft show.

The 2010 Long's Park Summer Music Series opens June 6 and continues each Sunday night until August 29. The Long?s Park Art & Craft Festival will be held rain or shine Friday, September 3 through Monday, September 6, 2010.

Long's Park, a beautiful 80-acre, city-owned park at the Harrisburg Pike/Park City Center exit of Route 30, is located at 1441 Harrisburg Pike in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.