The 2009 St. Lucie County Soiree "Opening our Doors to Your Loved Ones," the popular annual event benefiting Alzheimer's Community Care, will take place Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the Pelican Yacht Club. The fun-filled evening will feature original works or "doors" of art by the famed Florida Highwaymen. The much-anticipated new collection of works, which will be available for bidding at the live auction during the evening, is complete and can be previewed by visiting the Alzheimer's Community Care website, wwwalzcare.org.

The original paintings are on display at the Official and LegendaryHighwaymenArtGalleries in the ArcadeBuilding in Fort Pierce.

Long-time supporters of Alzheimer's Community Care, the Florida Highwaymen, an association of twenty-six African American artists from Fort Pierce, Florida, are well-known for their depiction of the Florida landscape, using vivid, bright colors. They've developed their own distinctive style capturing waterscapes, backcountry marshes and inlets reflective of pre-tourism development.

Paintings by Florida Highwaymen AJ Brown, Mary Ann Carroll, Isaac Knight, RA McLendon Sr., RA McLendon Jr., Willie Reagan, Jimmy Stovall, Johnny Stovall and Norman Wright will be available at the live auction. Highwaymen paintings are prized by collectors and art aficionados. The works generate both excitement and high prices at auctions and the artists have a loyal following as their popularity continues to rise. Excitement continues to build as the new collection specifically created for the 2009 event, "Opening our Doors to your Loved Ones," is now featured on-line.

Alzheimer's Community Care serves as an innovative model of care that advocates for services and resources to promote and provide specialized, compassionate, quality care to Alzheimer's disease and related disorders patients and caregivers. The organization's strategic principle is "we place a safety net around patients and caregivers every day."Alzheimer's Community Care is a United Way agency. For more information about "Opening our Doors to your Loved Ones" please call our TreasureCoast office at 772-223-6351 or visit www.alzcare.org.