Plenty for All Thru the Arts: 2nd Annual MYSTERY NIGHT ~ Oct. 26th

Robert Hannon as 'Edgar Jees'

David Guttenberg as Pizza Delivery Boy in last year's hit 'Death Comes Cordially'

Nicky Eiseman the victim 'Madame Dorethea Dubois' Lisa Freer

Marcia Trainor, author of 'Death Comes Cordially' and this year's feature 'Down for the Count'

Mystery Night is a fundraising event, an interactive who-dunnit, written by Marcia Trainor. This is our second year, don't miss this popular event which sold out last year. Come join Ida Solvit and see if you can pick the guilty party in 'Down for the Count.'

Where: our sponsor Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fairbanks, across from the Princess Hotel

When: Friday, October 26th, 7pm

How much: tickets are $35, and include appetizers and wine donated by our sponsor Gold Hill Imported Beers & Fine Wines

To purchase tickets:
call Jane Trainor (907) 479-6832 or
Elizabeth Belknap at (907) 456-6358


Our sponsor: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fairbanks Home Concerts are an exciting venue that has used the help of local musical talent at the homes of gracious hosts in the Fairbanks area. Plenty For All provides the appetizers and our sponsor, Goldhill Imported Beers and Fine Wines, donates the wine. All proceeds go to our 100% volunteer run organization. We have had the pleasure of enjoying Susan Grace Stoltz Jane Trainor, president of the board, Marcia and Susan Grace, singer songwriter and supporter of Plenty For All

We've also featured Pat Fitzgerald and Robin Dale Ford.


Robin and Pat rocking out!!

Will Putman and Trudy sang and played their hearts out for us up on Chena Ridge.
If you are a musician or are in a group and would like to help support your neighbors to stay in their homes, contact Jane Trainor at 479-6832 or Elizabeth Belknap at 456-6358. We would be happy to set you up to sell your CD's!

If you are willing to host an event for an audience of 35 to 60 people at your home, please contact Jane or Elizabeth. We will set it up, host it with appetizers and wine and clean it up! Call to dream up a great time at your home with us.

What is Plenty For All? We are a non-profit with 501c3 status, 100% volunteer run with the intention of helping our neighbors avoid foreclosure and obtain homes of their own. As of this date, we have helped 13 families stay in their homes or achieve home ownership. Everyone runs into hard times and we aim to help those families out that have the determination to get back on their feet. Our board of directors carefully reviews each applicant to be sure that they are able to continue holding up a mortgage but have run into difficulty and need a boost from someone who cares. We give eligible applicants a grant and so far every family that we have helped is still living in their home! We also give grants to new home owners that may need a helping hand tcover the hidden costs that come with acquiring a home.

Testimonials "I am a single mother of five children...I worked hard and bought a home for my family. In October my furnace blew up. The money from Plenty For All got me through the winter and allowed me to keep my head held high." S.P.

"Knowing that other people cared gave me a lot of belief in the goodness of humanity." D.D.

"We cannot thank you enough for starting this corporation, and for being there in our time of need." A.H.

Need help? If you or anyone you know would like to apply for a grant from Plenty for All, please email Jane Trainor at janetrainorart@gmail.com or call at 479-6832 and request an application form. Please write a letter to the board of directors that tells the story of the difficulty that has come about. Include as many accurate details as possible.

Like top Donate? To date, our biggest cash donation was $1500.00. If you would like to donate to Plenty For All go to plentyforallthruart.com and click on the donation button on the home page. Plenty For All utilizes PAYPAL for your convenience.

Our Sponsor: Spirit of Alaska Federal Credit Union

Our Sponsor: Goldhill Imported Beers and Fine Wines

Gallery We also feature the art of visual artists. Please check out our gallery for gifts and to treat yourself. You can purchase them at our website plentyforallthruart.com

Gallery of Jane Trainor

Where Caribou Dream There is something magical about caribou. I cherish my experiences of seeing them. It's as though they are reminders that this world of matter is not the whole of existence. There seems to exist a mystical world that the shamans know.

The tundra is their home. Being on the tundra is an indescribable feeling. I worked on capturing this feeling in this painting.

Raven the Time Master Ravens are amazing to me. They are impressive at least and they seem to live outside of this world and in a space that can see throughout all time. I often have highly intuitive experiences when the ravens call or fly over. It is as though they speak to me from this different place.

The Beauty of Serenity This image is my only non Alaskan one. it is a shoreline on the Atlantic coast in Acadia National Park. The fog was rolling through a beautiful sunny day, creating a mood that was serenely beautiful.

The Midnight Sun The midnight sun is one of the most enchanting of the Alaskan experiences. It is also a great pleasure to attempt to create the skyscapes of the summer months.

The Midnight Dance Of the Birch Tree Maidens I have always been intrigued by stories of the devas. My daughter once told me that she had caught a glimpse of the birch tree maidens. It inspired this painting. It was -30F on the full moon winter evening that this image was taken from.

Being in the Calm of the Center These are turbulent times indeed. Alaskan glacial waters move coldly and dangerously in the wintertime. The world appears to be crazy and it is oftimes difficult to maintain calmness and equilibrium.

This image speaks from my soul to remind myself and others that there is a place within that is unaffected by what takes place in the illusion of the material world. Like the stillness of an Alaskan lily pad in a warm summer sun, it is a place of Oneness with all of creation and with the Divine. Joy, inner calmness and bliss are its affects. I live my life to bring these attributes from this inner world to the sometimes turbulent outer world around me.

The Dawning of a New Day I live my life to do what I can to put love and caring into a world that seems desperately lacking in it. It is my hope that the prophesized time of the Golden Age of Peace and Plenty for all will anchor itself to this old Earth and to the world of Humans. I live and work for this dream. Sometimes I see glimmers of this new time in its very beginnings.
This image of daybreak on the Tanana River in winter reflects this deep hope.

Inner and Outer Journey of the Soul Life to me, is two separate yet distinct adventures. One is seen and involves the body, the other is unseen and involves the lessons brought about by spirit on the inside. The material and the spiritual interweave and effect the other.

Looking to Eternal Love This piece was inspired by talks I'd had with my brother Tom. He lived in Nome by the Bering Sea. I discovered that we both turn to the idea of something bigger than ourselves when we need help and guidance. Love is its essence.

The Runestone of Wholeness This painting goes by another name that is The Foothills of Denali. Denali is the Native Alaskan name for Mount McKinley. It means 'the Great One'.
This painting was very labor intensive and took forever. When it was finished I discovered that I had unconsciously painted the rune for wholeness. This was, at the time, an important theme in my life as I was working on attaining wholeness within myself.

The Splendor of the Sea My family and I would journey south from Fairbanks to the Kenai Peninsula. Where we would celebrate the fourth of July in Seward, Alaska. Ressurection Bay is a rainy spot and on the rare day of sunshine the green/blue waters of the sea are splendid indeed. I so enjoyed capturing the wetness of the rocks in this image.

Snow Geese on the Road to Pilgrim Hot Springs The Seward Peninsula has a hot springs. This is the road out of Nome that goes there. On a fallish day at dusk this image was born.

The Source of Passion I painted this piece when I lived on the Kandik River one hundred miles or so down river from Eagle Alaska. The center was taken on a evening in late August with the return of the nightime sky. We were set up in fish camp looking across the Yukon River. That beautiful river flows into the Bering Sea that has captured my heart in dreams long before I ever set eyes on it. The Arctic tern is an amazing bird that migrates every year from the Arctic to Anarctica and back living the polar summers that are so awesome.

Violet Fire Life is a gift. Violet Fire is the color that transmutes energy that has been misqualified by choices in life. Utilizing the Violet fire brings life energy back into balance. Irises bloom very briefly in June. They are the perfect embodiment, to me, of the violet fire.

On a Journey I moved out to the Yukon River between Eagle and Circle and spent the first winter on Washington Creek. There I built the roof of our six-sided log cabin and dug out the floor with an adz while I was five months to eight and a half months pregnant with my second child, Rae Mist. She was birthed on Washington Creek as had been Willow (girl at right) earlier that year. Here is Willow with her mother Barb and her brother Wakan.

The story of 'On a Journey' goes like this. Barb and her partner Errol were on the banks of Washington Creek one summer. They happened to notice two mated geese fly over and then a speck that slowly grew as it fell to the Earth. It was a feather heading in their direction. Gently it took its time floating towards them both. It finally landed on the creek before them. Errol got up and headed to the canoe to retrieve it. But Barb said, "No, leave it, it's on a journey."

Columbia Glacier Columbia Glacier is melting as the Earth seems to be in flux. I feel glad to have experienced the wonder of the glaciers. I wonder if my children's children will see them one day.

The Awesomeness of God in all of Its Forms There are times when creation moves me deeply. I was challenged to express this feeling in an image and so this one was born. It honors God as Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Life.
I included the tundra of the Seward Peninsula with the lovely gray green waters of the Bering Sea.

The Midnight Jewel I've always loved the nightime sky. Alaska doesn't lend itself to enjoying the full moon on warm summer nights. But sometimes the turn of the season allows for a glimpse of the midnight jewel in sweater weather.

Memory Of Caribou The tundra holds the secret of the mysterious caribou. The antlers that are shed and strewn about speak of the memory of their having passed through.

Wonder I first experienced the Bering Sea in a dream. Its pull for me is deep and mystical.
This painting sought to capture this feeling. I felt especially happy to have successfully captured the waves as well as I did.

Unsurpassed in Beauty in All the Universe The Wrangell Mountains are extraordinary. I often wonder how other planets look. Could it be that there is a planet more beautiful anywhere in the universe? I wouldn't put it pass the Creator but it is difficult for me to imagine one that is.
The roundness of this canvas lent itself to putting a new moon shaped Earth as viewed from outer space.

Gallery of Jean Lester