Shelter Shorts August 2012

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August 2012SHELTER SHORTS is a monthly newsletter intended to keep Rivers and Bluffs Animal Shelter volunteers and suppconnected. With everyones hectic schedules, we know it is often difficult, if not impossible to attend monthly meetingswork at all of our fundraisers.Everyone is invited to submit articles for the newsletter. To do so, please call Bev at 608-326-2914 or email [email protected].

Monthly meetings are held on the 3

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Thursday of every month at the Prairie du Chien City Hall. Meetings begin ap.m. Please use the back door. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.The next meeting will be held on Thursday, August 16 th Phoneraiser

Please continue to save your old cell phones and ink jet cartridges. Drop them off at Tender Care Animal Hospital, orthem to the monthly meeting. Thanks, Donna for taking the time to collect, sort and send the phones and cartridges in.

U.S. Bones

Please continue ordering cat and dog treats from USBones.com. They donate 25% of each order placed to RABAS.Dr. Donna Higgins Wildlife Photo Gallery

Dr. Donna Higgins continues to support RABAS through her beautiful wildlife prints on display at her office downtownShe has recently changed the format to 12x12 prints in borderless clip frames. Donna feels that these may beaffordable at $35 each. She will donate $25 to RABAS for each print she sells. These prints are absolutely beautiful. stop in at Dr. Donna Higgins office, downtown PdC to see them. You may be able to see them on RABAS facebook pDonnas facebook or possibly on our website www.riversandbluffsanimalshelter.org.

Kwik Trip Gas Cards Kwik Trip gas cards continue to be our easiest and most profitable fund raiser. Once again, you to those who have purchased the Kwik Trip Cards and have made the commitment to purchase cards from us bpurchasing gasoline or any Kwik Trip products. Again, please consider purchasing these cards before filling your tank. just a few people from this large organization utilizing the Kwik Trip Cards, we still continue to bring in approximatelyper month. Just think what we could be doing if more members and volunteers purchased the cards before buying gascards can be used for gasoline or any items sold in Kwik Trip Convenience Stores. Purchasing gas with the cards is eyou can just swipe the cards at the pump and go, thus saving time and raising money for RABAS at the same time. Othethe $8.60 shipping fee per order, there is no expense involved such as advertising. Cards will be delivered to you with anotice by calling Bev at 326-2914 or Jill at 326-4870 or by replying to this email. If you live out of town and would lpurchase the cards, we will mail them to you upon receipt of your check made payable to RABAS.Remember, we make 10% on each card sold. Cards come in increments of $25, $50 and $100. Please, help RABAS our goal through the purchase of these cards.

I believe that in less than a year we started selling the KT Cards in October last year- we have made almost $5,00

Just think the profit we could be making if more of our members and volunteers supported this effort. We could dowith some of our smaller fund raisers.Please take the time to check out our website riversandbluffsanimalshelter.org. Information on it changes somedaily. This website is awesome!!! Thanks, Randy for constantly updating our website. ATherapy Dogs International teams remain active in the community. On Tuesdays Kathy and Digger are at Bluff Havenand her dogs Jasmine and Sami go to Walter Schmitt Home and Paula and Maggie visit Bluff Haven. Bev recently vWyalusing Academy per a special request.Dog Obedience Classes I have had a number of requests for dog classes and truly hope to start classes in October.Volunteer hours will be collected by Randy P at monthly meetings or you can email your hours to [email protected] River Cruise to benefit RABAS was held on Wednesday, August 22. Thanks to Brenda and Randi for settin

up. It was a beautiful evening for a river cruise. It was also a fairly profitabevent, especially for the amount of work involved. We made $709.00 profit, including the cruise and donations. Tha

everyone who participated on the cruise or promoted it. The cruise was a grway to sit back, relax and enjoy the Mighty Mississippi and the friendship of RABAS supporters.

Villa Louis Carriage Classic Wine and Cheese Event is just around the corner. Mike and Shelly Rider stopped in August meeting to firm up plans and to give us the balance of the $500. Volunteers for this event Brenda, Jill, Deb Deb (a friend of Deb Cross) Linda and Bev will meet at 4 p.m. to serve wine and cheese to VLCC patrons.Pounds of People and Pooches Due to the heat of July and August, attendance has been down or on some nightsexistent. Hopefully with the cooler fall temperatures fast approaching, this event will resume.We meet every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. on the east side of the Villa Louis (just north of the Sculpture Park). The route over a mile and takes less than an hour. In addition to the physical activity, the walk provides socialization for dogs as w
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their handlers. It is an enjoyable evening. Please bring poop bags and water for your dogs. Due to the extreme heat tfew weeks, I believe that the dog walk has been postponed until cooler weather returns.Zinkles Piggly Wiggly Food Stand Fund Raiser was held on July 28th. Tammy manned the food stand by herself,grilling, selling and take down. According to Tammy, things wentquite well even though she did burn a few brats in the beginning. But, she was even able to sell those. Thanks, Tammy

Yappy Hour was held at The Sawmill Saloon on Thursday, July 26 th. We did not make much money on this eventevent than a fund raiser. I think everyone in attendance enjoyedthemselves. The next Yappy Hour will be in October.

Prairie Pool Puppy Paddle Can you believe it our5th Annual Prairie Pool Puppy Paddle has come and gone. It wadog swim and I think our attendance was better this year thanat any of the previous years. We had 62 dogs!!! Total profit was $332 which is a bit disappointing. But again, the peoplattend had a great time and I think those people will get the word outfor next years swim. I think we should be proud of ourselves for putting on another quality event for the dog communit

year we did not have any t-shirts or towels to sell and neither Joeor Phil were thereto sell 50/50 tickets. Randi and I tried selling them, but we just dont seem to have the same knack at

Phil. We started the day without any tennis balls to sell, but one ofTender Care Vet Techs ran to a dollar store and purchased some for us to sell. I believe we sold most of the ones we bou

Marys School had a table set up to sell their home made dog biscuits.I think they did quite well dog biscuits were attractive and reasonably priced. Donna and I both feel that we need someincome of this event. With the number of people and dogs in attendance,

we missed a money making opportunity. Any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks to everyone who helped with thpromoting it, volunteering the day of or bringing your dogs to enjoy the

day. This is one of those events where all we really need to do is show up and everyone seems to know what to do to gethanks.Another Planning Meeting was held on Wednesday, August 29. Two representatives of Iowa County Humane S(ICHS) were guest speakers at this meeting. They talked to us about their history, ongoing struggles, successes andfuture. This meeting was informative and to say the least eye-opening. Much of the meeting consisted of questionsmembers of our organization. Personally, I kept thinking throughout the evening that ICHS and RABAS are similar inways, except they are further along in their efforts to save homeless pets, due to the fact that they have been at this a few years than we have. But I came away from the meeting with a renewed energy and belief that we can do this. Phillmore (Outreach Coordinator of ICHS) mentioned the fact that the number of volunteers who attend meetings and wfund raisers is about the same size as our groups. But she went on to say that once they moved into the building they ar

in, the number of volunteers who help with day to day operations has greatly increased. I have always felt and will continfeel (until proven wrong), that if we build it they (volunteers) will come. Ideas suggested by ICHS representatives incgetting out into the community more. This could involve starting a Pet Food Pantry (I know we thought about this beforthe local food pantry did not have room for pet food), a vaccination/dog license clinic and meeting with various commservice organizations to let them know what we are about not necessarily to ask for money. I hope to contact area vetsthe possibility of a vaccination clinic in various locations. Will also contact someone about possibility of offering dog licfor sale at these clinics to increase compliance. We now have a storage shed that could be used to house pet food ancould have some type of pet food pantry on a regular basis for those in need. We need to research ways to get the pet fothis. I also hope to contact the various service organizations about the possibility of speaking at one of their meetiRotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Jaycees. At this meeting, we did not mention the next property meeting, but weeks ago wdecided on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. I feel we need to continue these meetings as now we have mor

plan and Joe has been summarizing the results we have from other area shelters. So unless you hear differently, th

meeting of the planning committee will be September 12. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. and be held in the Comm

Room of PdC City Hall. It is not necessary to be on the committee to come to these meetings. We welcome everyinput. I believe September meetings discussions could include amount of land, size of building in addition to compilation of reports.RABAS is currently running a raffle featuring a beautiful Ducks Unlimited Print, 4 tickets for a Maiden V

Mississippi River Cruise a beautiful wooden bench made by Phil Dwornik and an eagle print from Dr. Donna Hi

Bonnie Fuller (Sawmill Saloon) sold a number of them at Yappy Hour; Kris Perkins did a great job selling them at the PPool Puppy Paddle (market was right with all the lab owners in attendance). Hopefully we can sell a few more at the ChDinner on Sept. 19 at Huckleberrys. If you would like to purchase any of these tickets or would like to sell some, pleame know. Sandy Kittle, thank you for printing these tickets.


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Chicken Dinner at Huckleberrys Restaurant Once again, Huckleberrys has offered to help us in our efforts tomoney. We will have a chicken dinner, consisting of fried or baked chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetable, coldinner roll, coffee and milk. We will also offer a dessert buffet (calling all bakers) for this meal. Cost is $8 per person (kids). We will also have a 50/50 raffle as well as a silent auction. We are in need of bakers, silent auction items andvolunteers. If you can help in any of these ways, please let me know by replying to this email or calling Jill at 326-4

me at 326-2914. If you have already confirmed a silent auction item or baked goods, you do not need to re-reply. Tanother easy fund raiser for us bake a pan of bars, show up and work. I hope to see many of you there.New arrivals: Don and Eileen are happy to announce the arrival of Molly, a beautiful toy mix who was definitely in neegood and forever home. I am not sure who is happier Don and Eileen or Molly. Kris and Bill Perkins recently adopteweek old Border Collie. She is named Daisy and is fitting well into their home. As Kris reported Let the games beghave a puppy in the house. Good luck and congrats to both families.Treasurers Report Treasurer Jill reports that as of August 16, RABAS now has $106,716.11 including $16,065.95 checking account and $90,650.16 in 4 different CDs. Kwik Trip Gas Cards continue to be one of our best and most resource of income - $230 in the first 2 weeks of August with no effort.Membership Renewals - Memberships are good for one year from the month the member joined. Jill will send out reapplications to those whose membership has expired. Please consider renewing your membership as memberships aimportant part of our income. There are 5 different levels of membership:$5.00 student; $15 Individual; $25 Family; $50 Sponsor; $100 Patron; $500 Benefactor. Some members choose to dofixed amount every month. Thanks to everyone for your financial support. Watch us grow!!RABAS Wish List

Wish List Items include:Land

Gift certificates to either the Courier Press or WPRE Radio Station to pay for ads for upcoming fund raiserspostage stamps, paper, envelopes, labels, napkins, paper towels, hand sanitizer, ketchup, mustard. Contact Bev at 326-29reply to this email if you have any kitchen or paper supplies. If you have information on land, please contact Randy a388-2654 or Bev at the above number.

Donations

All donations are recognized in the Shelter Shorts and a thank you note is written.

Yappy Hour Donation Jar - $159Yappy Hour 50/50 - $76Dr. Donna Higgins Donation Jar - $131Frank and Mary Weeks - $500

Walmart Volunteer Hours Julie Whyte - $250Kussmaul Estate (Jills family) - $133.18Ann Beilke (Deb Cross friend) $20

Current and New Members (Recent renewals and new members are shown in bold type).

Kristen Kriegl $15 Single Membership

Jennifer Clements $50 Sponsor Membership

Janis Hein $15 Single MembershipRandy and Linda Bedward $25 Family MembershipJoe Hunzeker $15 Single MembershipJill & Brian Cipra $25 Family MembershipGary & Kathy Koch $50 Sponsor MembershipJulie Whyte $15 Single Membership

Mollee Whyte $5 Student MembershipGeorgia Hutchinson $15 Single MembershipMarty Leeman $15 Single MembershipRoberta Spires $25 Family MembershipDawn Eggers $15 Single MembershipBob & Diane Witt $100 Patron MembershipSharon Boylen $25 Family MembershipTrinas Girl Scout Troop $50 Sponsor MembershipTori Armstrong $15 Single MembershipBrenda Wilson $25 Family Membership


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Marilu Bintz $50 Sponsor MembershipKelly Fishler $15 Single MembershipTammy Aldrich $15 Single MembershipDeb Cross $15 Single MembershipKim Pinkham $15 Single MembershipJohn & Judy Ryan $25 Family MembershipJim & Kathy Powers

$25 Family MembershipJane Howe $25 Family MembershipBonnie Olson $50 Sponsor MembershipJami & Ken Quick $25 Family MembershipAmy Enlowe $25 Family MembershipDonna Heilmann $15 Single MembershipSue Rider $15 Single MembershipLinda Munson $50 Sponsor MembershipPeggy Johnson $25 Family MembershipDonna Cipra $25 Family MembershipVicki & Bill Mueller $50 Sponsor MembershipShirley Wegmuller $15 Single MembershipPaula Gutzmer $15 Single MembershipRandi & Mike Kluesner $25 Family Membership

Lu DeGuzman $100 Patron MembershipJohn & Vicki Howe $100 Patron MembershipRosemary Reese $15 Single MembershipMike, Shelly & Kaitlyn Rider $25 Family MembershipPhil and Deb Dwornik $50 Sponsor MembershipLaura Nix $100 Patron MembershipGeorge and Mary Tilley $25 Family MembershipTractor Supply $25 Family MembershipBev Pozega $15 Single MembershipTom & Marjorie Bennett $25 Family MembershipEric & Betty Frydenlund $25 Family MembershipMike & Mary Jane Faas $25 Family MembershipRon Stark $100 Patron Membership

John & Vicki Howe $25 Family MembershipMarilyn Crubaugh $15 Single MembershipJune Burns $15 Single MembershipJanet Lueck $15 Single MembershipLynn Moris $15 Single MembershipJeff and Chris Panka $100 Patron MembershipRandy and Kathy Paske $25 Family MembershipAlexis Burns Honorary MembershipRay Wrobel $15 Individual MembershipReminder: Annual memberships should be renewed 1 year from the month in which you joined.

Continued Monthly Pledges

Don & Eileen Klatt - $25 monthly pledgeThanks to everyone who volunteered this month in any way. Thanks to everyone who supported us through donation

memberships. There are many jobs that continue to get done without recognition. Membership and volunteer listincurrent through August 15, 2012. Please let me know if I missed your name on either the donation list or the membershand I will include it next month.

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River and Bluffs Animal Shelter Membership Form

Student - $5.00 ____ Sponsor - $50.00 _____Individual - $15.00 ____ Patron - $100.00 _____Family - $25.00 ____ Benefactor - $500.00I would like to make a monthly pledge of : ________ per month for a total of


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$_______ per year.

Name:___________________________________

Address:_________________________________

City/State/Zip_____________________________

Email:____________________________________ Phone Number:______________________

Please mail membership form to: River and Bluffs Animal Shelter

PO Box 421, Prairie du Chien, WI 53821

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Shelter Shorts August 2012