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The Alley of The Year 2023
The ALLEY
Villages OF THE YEAR
Clown - 2023 -
Alley 179
The Village People
AnnMarie Priorello
The Villages Clown Alley 179 was honored to be Association began. And, we have remained a WCA
named WCA’s Alley of the Year again this year! We Lifetime Alley ever since! On January 1, 2004 we
received this honor the first time in Chicago in 2022, changed our name to The Villages Clown Alley 179,
but unfortunately, none of our clowns were able to and became a lifestyle club of The Villages. Since then,
attend then. Louise Carnesale, who was the Southeast our alley has continued to learn and grow. Many of us
Regional Director at that time, delivered our plaque attend conventions each year with WCA, SECA, MACA,
to us a few weeks later. We were thrilled, and COAI, and others. We extend our learning even more
celebrated with her and the whole community. The by attending Mooseburger Clown Camp in Minnesota,
local newspaper covered the story and we had cake American Clown Academy in Georgia, and Clown
and refreshments! School in Wisconsin! We now have about 100 clowns
listed on our roster! Approximately 85 are active
Our alley started out as an off shoot of the local members, and about 33 Lifetime members. These are
Lion’s Club as they were looking to do more activities our members that are over 80 in age, and many of them
with the area children. We started our existence on are still active! We meet every Monday morning, the
February 1, 1991 as Lady Lake Clown Alley 179, and first Monday of each month is our business meeting.
that is when our affiliation with the World Clown
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