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ESRA-GA/AL: News and Events Please click here for Georgia/Mississippi/Louisiana Rescue updates from Barbara Please click here for Alabama updates from Susan Zuker News Update: On Saturday, October 2,
2010, The Duluth Historical Society sponsored the
Second Annual PoochFest
on the Duluth Town Green between 10 AM - 5 PM. This is an AKC RDO
(Responsible Dog Ownership) Event and was a blast for all
four-legged, as well as two- legged, children and adults. There was face
painting, agility, fun dog contests, dog training, arts, crafts, vendors and on
and on. In addition to the above, they also had a Meet the
Breed presentation. as you can see our wonderful volunteers and
their dogs participated.ESRA volunteers joined in with the festivities and had a booth at the event! We spread the word about rescue and raised $110 in donations. Please click here for more pictures of PoochFest 2010.
Parade of Rescue:
On January 23, 2010 , twenty of our beautiful Rescued Springers strutted their stuff and showed off their new families, during our Parade of Rescue at the annual Springer Specialty show in Lawrenceville, GA. Thanks to the Chattahoochee English Springer Spaniel Club of Greater Atlanta for their warm welcome of ESRA to their event, and for all of their support. Please click here for more pictures. Please click here to view "Parade of Rescue" program from 2010. June 11, 2009: Bark in the Park at the Gwinnett Braves. ![]()
It was “Bark in the Park” last night at the Gwinnett
County Braves (triple A minor league team) new stadium/field in Buford, GA.
Sandi Garris & I attended with our Springers Sam & Max (respectively) ![]()
The berm area was filled with fans with their
pooches. At times it appeared there were more fans out in the berm area with
dogs than in the stadium seats! As we went in, there were some
folks giving away leashes and coupons for free exams as an marketing tool for
their clinic. She reached to give me a leash and then noticing the ‘Rescue’
t-shirts that Sandi & I were wearing, said “ oh, you can probably use lots of
these”. And before I even knew what she had, she reached back to her display
table and scooped 5 new leashes into my bag. We had several people approach
us with questions about rescue. Sam & Max were perfect Springer ambassadors,
just enjoying the atmosphere, looking pretty and staying well behaved. We even
got a mention for ESRA in the Gwinnett Dailey Post
http://www.gwinnett ![]() The highlight of the evening for Sam was when we were joined by a 4 month old Springer named ![]()
Daisy Mae and her mom Debbie, who just
naturally made their way down to where we were sitting. Sam & Miss Daisy had a
good old time playing together. At 11 years of age, Max thought Daisy Mae was a
cute little terrorist with way to much energyJ.
Max preferred to join a couple of you (human) boys watching the pitchers warming
up in the bullpen right in front of us. The game was pretty good too.
The G-Braves had a 2-run lead for a time, before falling to the Scranton/Wilkes- nita watson
Springer Specialty Show is a Huge success for ESRA:
There were many ESRA folks there joining in the fun and helping out with the booth and parade, from GA, AL, MS, NC, SC, & FL. We also had a fabulous dinner out together on Saturday evening. Thanks so much to all who joined in and made this happen; it takes a village and this is certainly a wonderful village to be a part of. I am deathly afraid to try to name all who helped out as there were so many, but I do want to recognize the efforts of Don Lloyd who many of you may know from past Nationals & Specialties. Don was tireless in his efforts to raise funds in the ‘Walk a Mile’ program. He made multiple rounds both Saturday & Sunday of all the folks showing and attending. His efforts alone raise almost $1000. The total for the weekend’s donation & sales: $3,272!!!! Many thanks to all who turned out for the event, helped with the booth, the parade, pictures, the dinner………. Thanks to the Chattahoochee English Springer Spaniel Club of Greater Atlanta for their warm welcome of ESRA to their event, and for all of their support. You have already seen other emails with links to pictures and will likely see more from others who attended as well. I’ve included a few pictures below, but you can also view these and more by following the link below. http://gaalesra.shutterfly.com/261 nita watson
Plus, there was the “Walk a Mile” annex table.
Much thanks to Zippy Cooper (in the grey jacket), who is the show chair for the Chattahoochee English Springer Spaniel Club of Greater Atlanta. They host this event and we appreciate Zippy getting us into this event every year. On the far right behind the sewing machine is Carol Sanderson, who hardly left that spot all weekend. This is where she stayed creating her fantastic custom embroidered items that were very popular. Carol is still working today on orders she got in at the event!
Sheila Connelly drove out from Mississippi and kept the parade participants at their best groom!
Debbie Kersey, Don Lloyd and the famous boot!
Our FABULOUS Parade participants.
September 14, 2008 Hi All, I know I have been
bombarding you all lately with requests for transport help, so I thought I
would take a minute to report on some successful results from this weekend. The pictures attached are
from one of the drivers that helped get Randy (ESRA springer) and Trixie (NBRAN
brittany) from their foster homes in GA to their new homes in MD & NJ. ESRA volunteers also helped
on transports to get Kendall, Razor& Brother (A&B English setters), Murphy &
Zoe (adorable beagles) and Duke (ABR brittany) all to new homes or foster
homes this weekend. Oh yeah, the little Rat Terriers made it to FL as well. And that is just a drop in
the bucket to all the dogs, cats, etc… that were moved this weekend into
safe rescues or forever homes, all at the same time that the price of gas
jumped 50 cents or more a gallon. What a wonderful group of people to be
associated with. Thanks to all helped this
weekend and so many other times. Nita Watson Petapalooza - May 17, 2008 in Suwanee, GA.
Well, it was an absolutely
beautiful day at Suwanee’s town green. This is the third year for this event in
Suwanee and the second year that ESRA has participated. This event has grown by
leaps and bounds each year; this year it was covered with tents/booths from all
around the world of pet care, agility and obedience rings/shows, as well as live
bands and numerous pet clinics. If you have never been to this event, make plans
to attend next year. You won’t be sorry. I’d like to thank Carol
Sanderson, Angel Reed, Beth Campbell and Kelly Blake for turning out to man the
booth. And Sandi Garris, who came out to help set-up despite having a terrible
cold. Special mention to ESRA’s own “Roscoe” whose winning attitude kept bringing
in interested parties to our booth, while still sporting a winter coat in the
warm Spring sun. And a BIG thank you to our on-site Springer ambassadors, Sammie
Sanderson, Andy & Millie Campbell. We had a number of potential
adopters stop by and raised $400 for ESRA. Woo-Woo!
Please click here for archives of our news updates.
Recent Events: February 3, 2008 - Dog Park Outing
Eileen Parker
Please click
here for more pictures of our Dog park Outing.
January 2008 - Rescue Parade in Gwinnett County, GA. Hi Everyone, I'm not even going to attempt to name
all the volunteers who made it to this wonderful event, but we were blessed with
an amazing group of ESRA volunteers and adopters, not only from all over the
metro Atlanta area , but also from the Georgia coast, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. What a wonderful group
indeed!!! Petsmart "Santa Claws Promotion" in Birmingham
Our volunteers for the event were Kris Riha, who took on the part of Santa and did a marvelous job, Millie Christopher, Patty Howell, Traci Manuel (and her springer Mollie), Angie Epling, Phyllis Chan and myself. It was a fun time and we're looking forward to next year. Judie Lemsky Please click here for more pictures.
Please click here for more pictures.
ESRA-GA/AL Team Members meet at Nationals 2007
The first weekend in October was a
great time to be in Lexington, KY for "The Nationals". Several of our ESRA-GA/AL
team got together for the highly successful (and fun) ESRA dinner/auction event.
Then we enjoyed the show and rescue parade (sniff-sniff) the next day. On
Saturday evening the crew had dinner together to discuss how to organize our
newly formed team. Thanks to all who attended. |
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