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GRRCP has
a gorgeous new banner thanks to the hard work of volunteer Dan
Duratchko. We unveiled the vinyl banner at the Pawsability event
at the Farm Show in Harrisburg, PA in mid-March. Thanks Dan for
giving us such a great look!
Sunday of Pawsability brought a special visitor to the GRRCP
booth to shop for bandannas. Annie, a GRRCP rescue (Golden
Retriever/black lab mix) lives in a loving home with her family
that includes her great Dalmatian brother, Jakob. Annie was
adopted in January 2002 and was about 3 months old at the time.
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Wins Division First Place at Festival of Trees! |
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Golden
Retriever Rescue of Central PA, Inc. participated in this year's
Festival of Trees at Penn State University, which was a new
venue for us. The annual community event raised money for the
local YMCA. There were 100 trees in five divisions and we were
part of the community division -- which we won based on the
amount of money in the jar placed by the tree. All funds donated
in the voting for "favorite" tree also were given to
the YMCA. The
project was chaired by Celeste Parker and committee members were
Kim Nelson, Em Nelson, Shelly Mannino and Kim Bierly. Decorating
was done by the latter three individuals -- who have agreed that
next year they need a tall person to help put that tree topper
in place!
These photos show closeups of the gold star ornaments made by
Celeste, who also made dog biscuits into ornaments to keep with
our theme. Each star ornament had a photo in the middle of one
of our rescue dogs. The handmade fuzzy Golden Retriever
ornaments were a hit as usual. Kim and Em work hard on them each
year and this year they outdid themselves! We even got several
e-mails from people who wanted to buy some. The tree also was
adorned with tiny white lights, several sizes of gold balls,
translucent gold ribbon tied on the end of the tree branches, a
chenille Christmas tree skirt, and a gold and white star tree
topper. No tree would be complete without its own Golden
Retriever mom and her pups laying on a plaid dog bed underneath
the tree. The decorating photo shows Shelly Mannino reaching to
put an ornament near the top while Em Nelson holds the ladder
for her. The groups is already planning its encore performance
for 2003! |
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This is Nate, Jasmine and Bentley
all gathered for playtime on Sunday morning. Nate is a rescue
Golden adopted from Golden Retriever Rescue of Central PA, Inc.
in June, 2002. He is not yet a year old and as you can see from
this photo is going to be a big boy. Bentley is his golden
brother and Jasmine is their friend who comes to play and swim.
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Nate ready to go swimming in his new
life jacket!
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