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Saturday,
October 1st was a beautiful, sunny day for our 5th Annual
Walk ‘n’ Wag all breed dog walk fundraiser, which was held at Borderland
State Park. This is one of two major events we have each year, the
other is the auction held in the Spring. Thank you to all the
volunteers who came early to help set up. We also had a lot of people
helping throughout the day and we want to thank them also. It takes
many volunteers for an event like this and we could not have done it
without you.
The group
walk was at 11 am. At Noon, John from K-9 Performance Plus
(http://www.k-9performance.com)
gave a very interesting and exciting obedience demo. First he started
with regular obedience and then went into more advanced work, such as
protection, etc. We’d like to thank John and his group.
Next we had
our Rescue Parade – dogs that have been placed through gsrne are invited
to be in the parade. They received “gsrne rescue dog” medallions. We
always look forward to seeing the dogs and hearing about their life now
with their new family.
We
appreciate Officer Tim Keefe of the Dover NH Police Department taking
time out of his busy schedule for us – it was a long drive from NH. K9
Norman was awesome finding drugs in and around the car, and then he let
everyone pat him! I hope everyone had a chance to stop by Pam Devlin's
"working dog" table to check out info and read about K9 Norman. Click
on the link “Working Dogs” on our home page to find out more info on the
Working Dog Program.
We had the
Canine Good Citizen test again this year – thanks to John Johnston from
K-9 Performance Plus and his volunteers. The dogs that passed are
listed here. Congratulations!
-
Diana
Gordon and Schafer
-
Mark Zola
and Nala
If you
passed and are not listed here, we’d love to include you -- please email
us and we will add your name.
There were
plenty of booths surrounding our activity area. We also had nice items
for sale at our own ‘gsrne’ table and a raffle table with a wonderful
mixture of items to choose from – dvd player, gsrne tote bag, gsd
sweatshirt, just to name a few! Thank you to everyone who donated
raffle items (see our dog walk page for info on both the raffle items
and vendors).
Greyhound
Placement Service of New Hampshire (
http://www.mv.com/org/gps ) was our food vendor again and we enjoyed
their delicious food.
Our photo
contest is getting very popular. The theme was "friendship" and the
entries certainly showed friendship; it must have been difficult to
choose just five winners. Thank you to Mike from Greyhound Placement
Service for judging the contest. The winning photos will be on our
website. There were five winners: 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
and two “Honorable Mentions.” They received ribbons and the first place
winner (Martine) received a beautiful basket filled with lots of doggie
items – thank you to Barbara for donating this.
Check out the winners here!
There were
gifts given out for the top two pledge collectors. First place was
Marie Guide and second place was Gigi Wang. This is what it’s all about
- getting donations so we can continue to help the dogs.
Donna
Joseph, GSRNE Photographer, assisted by 10 year old volunteer Emily,
managed a portrait photography booth again this year. We also had
volunteers taking photos during the day of all our activities and some
of these photos are now on here now.
Towards the
end of the day we played games - Best Trick, Loudest Bark, and the
Rally Spoon Game. We had some more games planned but everyone was
pretty tired.
Thank you
to EVERYONE involved in the dog walk: the Planning Committee, volunteers
who helped throughout the day, raffle (and other) donors, all the people
that helped us in so many other ways – check out our original ‘dog walk
page’ on the website for more info on some of the people who contributed
- please excuse us if we didn't include you - you can
email us and we’ll
add your name asap.
Thank you
to Eleanor and everyone at beautiful Borderland State Park.
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/southeast/bord.htm
The weather
was gorgeous, and it was a FUN day. It was great to see everyone with
their dogs – some of the members we see at most of our events, and some
new members - finally had a chance to meet some of you that we’ve only
‘met’ on our email list – and lots of well-behaved German Shepherd
Dogs. We are happy to say there were some other breeds/mixed breeds
represented too.
We
have more photos of the dog walk here.
*****Next year’s walk will be on Saturday, October 7,
2006.*****
Save the date!
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