Lake Helen’s troubled Creative Arts Café still a work in progress - The West Volusia Beacon

Lake Helen’s troubled Creative Arts Café still a work in progress - The West Volusia Beacon

A proposal for new activity at the Creative Arts Café in Lake Helen was criticized harshly by some Volusia County ECHO Advisory Committee members at a July 14 meeting.For years, the Creative Arts Café has skirted the edges of fulfilling the ECHO grant requirements, that, if not followed under a 40-year restrictive covenant, would mean the City of Lake Helen would have to pay the entire grant amount of $156,626 back to the county.The ECHO grant p…