Dear Friends,

We ask that you keep Peter Valenzuela, our stage manager and my personal guitar technician, in your thoughts and prayers.

His mother passed away in her sleep this morning, Feb. 28, two weeks after having a quintuple bypass heart surgery 2 weeks ago.

As some of you may know, Peter has worked for Venice for more than 20 years. We consider him family.

A few of you have been lucky enough to get to know Peter......he is a big guy with an even bigger heart.

Peter's father is also ill at this time so Peter and his brother and sister have some tough days ahead.

Services for Peter's Mom are tentatively planned for this Saturday, March 3rd at St. Mark's Church in Venice at 10:30am.

If any of you live in the area and would like to attend, please do so. Otherwise, if you would like to write him a little note, please send it to "venicetheband@gmail.com" or pinemountainlogs@gmail.com with the subject "For Peter" and we'll make sure he gets it. 

You can also contact him directly through his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/meaty1productions 

Life is short so live it accordingly!

Sincerely,

Michael - Venice