President’s Report
Dear Fellow Animal Lovers:
At our AGM in March all our previous executive were re elected by acclamation.
President Heather Pettit
Vice President Pat Kirschner
Recording Secretary Reid Harvey
Corresponding Secretary Ginny Makarawich
Treasurer Jean Boysen
Directors Joan Salt, Carole Wheeler, Sue Bru, Laurie Johnson, Marti Giroux.
This has been the busiest summer on record. We have taken in about 70 kittens, mostly from Lumby/Cherryville and Westside. The majority of them were produced by feral mothers who were abandoned by cruel and uncaring owners when they became pregnant. Our resources have been strained to the limit but we have managed to accommodate them all and a trickle of adoptions is slowly reducing the total waiting for their forever homes. One problem is that well meaning people see a stray cat and feed her and the kittens, but then when their personal circumstances change they have to move away. We then enter the picture and the poor little creatures become our responsibility. Early in the New Year we hope to do some advertising asking people who are feeding ferals to contact us for neutering/spaying before kittens start appearing.
Unfortunately many people still confuse us with the SPCA. After our full page ad in the Morning Star on Aug.20 Sue had 8 phone calls from people who assumed they were phoning the SPCA, even though our name was at the top of the page in large type and occurred another 6 times in the ad! Whenever you hear people making this mistake please don’t hesitate to correct them.
Watch for our custom calendars. We hope to have them available at the Collectables Sale in mid October. After that they will be in vets’ offices and pet stores.
To date we have held a number of very successful fundraising events.
1. Silent Auction $2 400
2. Easter Bake Sale $918
3. Garage Sale. This was our biggest ever. I really believe that we didn’t have room for one more item. Our sorting team of Barb Harvey, Pat Kirschner, Sharon Christensen, and Helen Valk, spent 2 weeks creating order out of the mountains of material. Reid Harvey put up all the tents to shelter the overflow from the carport and hauled away the unsold items. Lisa Salt notified all her contacts on her email list about the sale. We took in $5 200 from the sale. Thanks to the many people who worked on the sale days.
4. Lumby Legion Jam Session and Auction. Lorna Fritzler and Donna Warnock once again did an immense amount of work aided by volunteers Bill, Lorrie, Dale, Bryce, Rose, Cookie, Arthur, Kim, Carla, Heidi, Tara, Keri, Jesse, Lori, Kathryn, Roy, Dwayne, Gene, Andre, Wally, Lyle and Debbie collected donations from 198 businesses! The evening was the most successful to date, bringing in $5 030! Our thanks to all the volunteers and donors. Their work and generosity do so much to help us relieve animal suffering.
5. Zumbathon $534
6. Ball Tournament $324
7. Fathers Day Sale at Hunter’s Store $200
Thanks to all the volunteers who made these events possible.
In Memorium
VDACS has received generous donations in memory of the following animals and animal lovers:
In Memory Of From
Doreen Bazell Laurie Johnson
Doreen Bazell J W + R Johnson
Doreen Bazell Herb and Ollie Johnson
Doreen Bazell Lise and George Tranberg
Trevor Robertson Mary MacLennan
Trevor Robertson Ann Cordingly
Trevor Robertson Mary MacLennan
Trevor Robertson Loretta J Findley
Trevor Robertson James and Carla Skelton
Trevor Robertson Joann and Norman Jaques
Jean Vowles Elsa Laplante
Jim Torrance Enide Rourke
Jim Torrance Pam Trejier
Verner Christofferson Lise Tranenberg
Arlene Fichtner Donna Hopkins
Arlene Fichter Debra and Kenneth De Leeuw
Julian Hollenbeck Larry and Tish Kirby
Robert Rourke Enide Rourke
Mom Vera Piche Mark and Judy
Ab Krahn Bob and Irene Noakes
Socksie Esther Gonzalez
Bluff Angie Kitcher
Sam Enide Rourke
Lucy Laurie Johnson
A Brave Deer Enide Rourke
Sassy Ken and Teresa Barker
Emily,Barney,Marney,Minou, James and Cathryn Brown
Marlowe
Reggie Donna Easto
Jake Nor-Val Rentals Ltd
Lucky Winters Elinor Tyrrill
Rosie Robert and Heather Pettit
Katy Robert and Heather Pettit
Osita Pam Trejier, Zorro, Daisy
Bear Reid and Barb Harvey
Birthday Greetings
Sandra Turner from Florence Ryan
Special Thanks To
Creekside and Crescent Falls Veterinary Clinics for their continuing support. Their generous discounts make it possible to do all that we do and their fostering of cats and kittens means many animals are given a haven until they find their forever homes.
Monahan Agencies for donating the full page ads featuring the cats/kittens who are up for adoption.
Teresa Barker for donating baskets to raffle at our events and making a cash donation for each pair of pants she alters.
Ken Barker for serving as Santa at the Pet Photos.
Carol Eige` ` ard for the many donations of homemade wine for raffles and aauctions.
COMING EVENTS
Book/Tape/CD Sale Sept. 10/11 3205 22 St.
Donations gladly received.
Collectables Sale Oct. 15/16 Village Green Mall
Bake Sale Nov. 13 Village Green Mall
Christmas Sale
Photos With Santa TBA Watch for our ad.
Heather
