Hello,

I am Shon LeBlanc, co-owner of Valentino's Costume Group. We would like to thank all of you who were so gracious to help up during the strike. It really helped us survive.

Currently we are facing new issues.

Many of you may know that my business partner has had personal health issues, that are taking him out of the shop for now. We are not sure how long he will be out. This unfortunately has caused two of our investors to get skittish.. Neither are in industry so they don't understand what is going on at the moment. They would like us to liquidate the inventory and close the shop. We don't want to do that obviously. We need to raise $40,000.00 buy them out and we would like to ask for your help again to keep us in business.

We are looking for Investors, donations and renters. We have office prep space, our multi-use loading dock area, and of course, costumes. Lots and lots of costumes available for both individual rental and complete show rentals.