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ACPC members and guest at Crazy Horse Monument

This year’s American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC) convention, organized under the theme "Carving a Dream," drew participants from various parts of the country to Rapid City, South Dakota. A tour was organized to local attractions, including Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse monument. ACPC members and guests are pictured at the foot of a Crazy Horse plaster model with the actual monument in the background.

Cook County (Illinois) Treasurer Maria Pappas welcomes Matt Bator, intern from Whitney M. Young High School in Chicago, to her office. Bator got summer experience in an office which collects property tax and distributes the revenue to some 1,600 units of government across Cook County, the nation’s second largest county.

Enjoying the evening of July 31, 2010, are (l. to r.) T. Ron Jasinski-Herbert, Polonia Today Online editor, Don Hedeker, leader of the Polkaholics and Rocky Naples, whose singing emulates that of Li'l Wally Jagiello. The occasion was presentation of the entire polka-rock opera "Wally!" by the Polkaholics in Chicago. [Photo by Vera Gavrilovic]

Polish Roman Catholic Union of America (PRCUA) officers and scholarship recipients posed for a group photo at the fraternal organziation's Education Fund-Raising Luncheon in July, 2010.

Youth Leadership Conference participants

The Youth Leadership Conference held on June 20-26, 2010, organized by the American Council for Polish Culture is a week-long program in Washington, D.C., in which young persons of Polish descent meet persons of Polish descent in leadership positions in politics, business, media, academia and arts. Housing was in a dormitory of George Washington University in downtown Washington. The 13 participants ranged in age from 17 to 23, and came from various cities, mainly on the East Coast.

Jersey Polka Richie playing his concertina

Jersey Polka Richie (right) made a rare appearance with Tony Blazonczyk & New Phaze at the Glendora House in Chicago Ridge, Illinois, on August 1, 2010. Now residing in Florida, he spent a week in the Midwest making a variety of appearances.

Aaron Socha& LiveWire were among the many bands that appeared at the July, 2010, edition of Pulaski Polka Days in Pulaski, Wisconsin, which was simultaneously celebrating its 100th birthday. Thousands attend the annual polka festival.

Sobieski Vodka's Pool Party at the IPA Festival

There was not only polka music at the International Polka Festival of the International Polka Association (IPA) in August, 2010, at the Doubletree Hotel in Independence, Ohio, but sunshine, as well. A pool party featuring Ray Jay & the Carousels was sponsored by Sobieski Vodka.

Stephanie Pietrzak (at podium), America's Polka Sweetheart, accepts induction into the Polka Music Hall of Fame at a banquet held at the International Polka Festival of the International Polka Association (IPA) on August 7, 2010.

Summer Music Fest, Frankenmuth, Michigan

The Harvey Kern Pavilion in Heritage Park, Frankenmuth, Michigan, is so large that even a large crowd does not fill the dance floor. A scene from the 2010 Summer Music Fest, featuring some of the nation's top polka bands, shows only a portion of the huge premises.

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