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PET PHOTOS WITH SANTA A GREAT SUCCESS...
The "PET PHOTOS WITH SANTA" event was a great success again this year and thank you to all of you who came out to support us and for a donation, receive a beautiful photo of your pet with "Santa"
A huge THANK YOU goes out to:
DAVID & TING BIRNIE at Bosley's Yaletown on Marinaside Crescent for enthusiastically supporting and promoting this Pets and Friends event and for providing 'Santa'space in their beautiful new store.
CARMIN WESLEY - our photographer extraordinaire - for volunteering her time and expertise to provide such amazing photographns. She was so busy all day she barely had time to catch her breath.
GLOBAL NOON NEWS - For doing a story about Pets and Friends and promoting the "Pet Photos With Santa" event.
LESLIE BRUCE - Our wonderful, devoted Pets and Friends volunteer for being such a great 'Santa' Helper.... we couldn't have managed without your help.
DAPHNE PARKER- Who spent many hours arranging this fund raising event...
And of course, to DAVE PARKER - For doing such a great job as "Santa Claus"
2012 PETS AND FRIENDS CALENDARS:
We still have a few of our 2012 Pets and Friends Calendars available for sale. If you wish to purchase one, please mail your order, along with $15.00 per calendar to: Pets and Friends, #306 - 255 West First Street, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 3G8 and we will process your order as soon as possible.... -
Thank you to all our volunteers that make this calendar possible and thank you for supporting Pets and Friends...
DONATIONS:
We would like to thank THE DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER for their generous grant of $2,000.00 this year. We have put this money towards increasing the number of Pet Visitation Teams in care facilities in that district and thanks to their generosity, four more teams are bringing smiles, joy and companionship to more people in care homes.
We really would like to send out a special THANK YOU to all of you who have made donations to Pets and Friends over the years – we really do appreciate it and every cent counts. The money is put to good use helping us to continue to put Volunteer Visiting Pet Teams into hospitals, care facilities and hospices where residents no longer have pets of their own. The value of these weekly visits is immeasurable and it improves the well being of the residents and patients who look forward to these pet visits.
Being a not-for-profit organization, we rely on the generous donations we receive throughout the year.
Please continue to let others know of our organization.
We are now officially on Facebook – check out www.facebook.com/pets.visiting and add your comments.
Upcoming Screenings and Orientations
Are you interested in becoming one of our pet visitation teams? If so, please contact us to arrange for a pet screening, and to sign up for orientation.
PET SCREENINGS DATES FOR 2012
Our next available screening dates and locations are:
Vancouver – Tuesday - 14 Feb 2012, 13 Mar 2012 & 10 Apr 2012
Burnaby – Tuesday - 14 Feb 2012, 13 Mar 2012 & 10 Apr 2012
Delta – Wednesday - 11 Apr 2012 & 9 May 2012
Port Moody – Wednesday - 8 Feb 2012, 14 Mar 2012 & 11 Apr 2012
Pet screenings take about a half hour and are in demand! Please reserve your spot early.
(HUMAN) ORIENTATION
Saturday - 17 March 2012 & 19 May 2012 – from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon
Vancouver
Wednesday - 15 February 2012 & 18 April 2012
from 6:45 pm until 9:30 pm
Email: info@petsandfriends.org
We look forward to working with you!
PLEASE NOTE: Many new volunteers want to visit with children. Ronald MacDonald House has cancelled its pet visitation program (Jan. 2008). Canuck Place's visitation program is FULL. However, there are many seniors' facilities, group homes, hospices etc. that are not child focused that need visitation teams. Please consider volunteering at another facility in need.
Opening for New Board Members
Because of retirements, Pets and Friends now has several openings for new Board of Director members who are energetic and passionate about pets visiting people. We are a working board with several committees that deal with fund raising, grant writing and event planning and we're looking for people interested in sharing their talents and knowledge in these areas as well as computer data-base knowledge. If you are at all interested and can spare four or five hours a month from your busy schedule to attend meetings, plus volunteer occasionally at special events, please send us an e-mail.
No one should have to live without companionship
Did you know that people living in long-term care facilities can go months without meaningful social contact? Even with the best care, they may struggle with powerful feelings of loneliness and frustration.
Pets and Friends is working to ensure that people in facility care don’t have to live without the comfort of companionship. Our long-running and highly successful pet visitation program touches thousands of lives each year—but there are still many elderly, sick and disabled residents who need our help.
Your involvement can make a difference:
- Become a volunteer
- Bring Pets and Friends to your facility
- Make a donation
- Renew your membership