KMJ'S RAY APPLETON SENDS ADOPTIONS SOARING
The first annual "Pet Adoption Weekend" included a 3-day live broadcast by Ray Appleton, the Central Valley's top-rated talk show host, and led to the adoption of of 79 cats and dogs plus a duck and a pig. Appleton also accepted the honor as this year's "Be Kind To Animal Week" chairman. Read details in the summer edition of the CC/SPCA NEWS, available free with your membership.
JUDGE CREED RESPONDS TO A "NO KILL" PLEA
In the summer 2002 CC/SPCA NEWS, CC/SPCA board president, the honorable Frank Creede, Jr., responds to a letter from a former Fresnan who suggests the CC/SPCA can become a so-called "no kill" shelter with sheer determination and will. Judge Creede points out the enormity of the society's services in Fresno County and its balanced and all-encompassing programs — and that societies that have converted to no-kill have had to abandon to local governments all stray and homeless animals that cannot be placed. Read the complete article in the CC/SPCA NEWS.
GIB TURNS THE BIG NINE-OH
CC/SPCA Executive Director Emeritus Gib Rambo celebrated his 90th birthday with close friends on June 13th. As a birthday present, Harold & Betty Zinkin and family are donating $1000 per year for 9 years to the CC/SPCA.
CC/SPCA DONATION NEEDS
Ruthelaine's Thrift Store: any usable, good condition donations.
Grooming Parlor: towels, shop vac.
Front Desk: highlighter pens, whiteout, pens, rubber bands.
Annex Hospital: bowls, towels, can opener, blankets, cat & dog toys.
Strays: bowls, towels, poo scooper, litterboxes, garden hose, hoe, spray nozzle, buckets, can opener.
Puppies: towels, flea & tick spray, mercury thermometer.
All-Around Shelter Needs: paper, food of all kinds, litter.
Cat Traps: return CC/SPCA cat traps, any cat traps you no longer need.
ALSO IN THE CC/SPCA NEWS...
Keo Shadowwolf offers summer grooming tips ... Dr. Mark Nample lauds preventive medicine for older pets ... Humane Education Coordinator Lea Mitchem details her department's activities along with winners of the annual Essay and Bookmark contests ... Cheri Mitchem salutes Pet Facilitated Therapy volunteers and lists the program's recent visits ... Executive Director Norm Minson outlines the CC/SPCA's future ... Board VP Barbara Westerfield writes about her interactions with pet lovers since she and her husband moved to Fresno in 1968 ... Stephen Goode gives readers insight into the many duties of the CC/SPCA's "front lines."
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