• 43rd Annual NOAA Juried Painting Exhibition opened Sept. 21, 1999 in Timmins – jurors Joan Ferneyhough and Dr. Anita Spadafore - Richard Lebel, Marilyn Mills and Zoey Wood-Salomon accepted.
• Doris Foster opened home for painting get-togethers and to “Talk Art”
• Plein Air painting get-together, swim and pot luck at Mary Haig’s cottage at Thessalon
• Plein Air get together at Gros Cap
• NOAA Rep & Awards Convenor – Heillie Gordon

50th+ Anniversary Exhibition of Algoma Art Society – 1999 – featured guest artist Dan Murray, charter AAS member – also featured paintings by Fran Pond and current AAS members at SSM Museum

Sault Star Article about Dan Murray by Frank Dubrovnik

Fran Pond passed away in August 1999 at age 66 - Substantial donations were received by the Algoma Art Society in Memory of Fran Pond (at her request) - funds were used for numerous NOAA and Fall Festival of Art Awards in her name and a Society Art Exhibition.