The Portage and District Arts Centre's in the process of finding a new executive director, following the departure of Paul Legris from the position last week.

PDAC Board Chair Hope Buset says they knew he was leaving for about three weeks.

"And we've recently posted our advertisement for a new executive director in various newspapers, and on-line," she says, "The closing date for resumes or applications is this coming Friday, March 3rd, and we've already had quite a handful of people submit their applications. So we're excited about the applications that we have seen, so far."

Buset stresses with a lot of events coming up soon, they want a decision made on the executive director as soon as possible.

"Our staff is doing a fantastic job of helping us out through the transition, by picking up some of the tasks here and there that need to be taken care of, but certainly we want to get somebody in place, we want to get them trained, we want them to be in a position to assist our organization with these big events," she says, "So as soon as possible is ideal, but again, we want to make sure it's the right candidate, who will want to stay for the long term."