Lydia Holloway is sharing her many talents with ACARF by

establishing a website that sells many clever and custom-made items and shares the profits with ACARF. Lots of ACARF t-shirts and other

really fun things!

Check out her store! Use the following to maximize ACARF profit:

Zazzle.com/helpacarf/*

November 18, 2011

Found her Forever Home this week...

Hooray!

Tanya

Surrendered 2

Adopted 0

Return to Owner 2

In Shelter 58

Adopted 1

Fostered 0

Cats in Shelter 56

Strays 2

Unwanted 3

Euthanized 1

The Annual Meeting was held on Thursday, No-vember 17, in the basement of the Community National Bank. A major agenda item was the elec-tion of new Board members to replace retiring members Bud Jones, Sue Tucker, and Amanda Phillips. Bud and Sue have served on the Board for three years; both have been supporters and assets to the shelter. Bud is frequently seen working on the grounds, or is requested to run errands. Sue has been a very active representative on the Fund-raising Committee, and has spent hours working in the concession trailer and helping in various ways. Amanda has been on the Board since Au-gust 2010 and tackled the difficult job as Treas-urer, as the accounting requirements became more tedious when the shelter opened. Amanda has done a wonderful job of getting and keeping the finances in order. Thanks to all of you for your dedicated service. New Board members elected were Becky Loh-man, Julie Payne, and Robyn Porter. Art Chap-man was re-elected for another term, but, accord-ing to by-laws, must resign as President. New directors will take office on January 1, 2012. Ginny Hawk presented a check to the Board for $4,200—proceeds from the fundraising efforts. To date, the Fundraising Committee has given the shelter $8,500 since they organized last spring. Ginny also presented a report on all those events held.

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Don’t forget about the won-derful opportunity provided by Amazon for non-profits to earn money for their cho-sen organization by wrap-ping packages during the Christmas season. If you’re interested in work-ing a 4-hour shift at the Coffeyville location or would like further informa-tion, please call Ginny Hawk at 365-5311. Groups are being formed to carpool, so come join the fun for a good cause!

The shelter staff hosted three repre-sentatives from the new Fort Scott shel-ter on Friday. They are seeking a model by which to operate their new facility.

Jim Smith recently purchased six Kuranda beds for the shelter. The beds are designed to keep dogs and cats from laying on cold concrete, and are especially good for older dogs and for puppies. If purchased from the website, the shelter is given a 28% discount. It’s a wonderful way to help the animals! Order them out on the webpage at www.acarf.org.

Volunteer Zach Bara-gary assembles the new Kuranda beds donated by Jim Smith

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Tickets will be available in Iola at Duane’s, Classy Attic, and Second Chance, and in Humboldt at Community National Bank and Terry’s. They can be purchased the day of the tour at Terry’s in Humboldt, or at the individual homes on the tour.

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Wonder what happened to

Peaches?

Wonder no longer! Peaches is truly “livin’ the Dream”! She was adopted from the shelter by Tristian—a fine lady who operates an assisted liv-ing facility, and Peaches lives there with lots of new friends! Tristian reports that she is given much love and attention daily by both the staff and the

residents, who also shower her with toys and clothes. “We love her so much!”, says Tristian.

Now, how much better can it get than that?

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Although the opening of Second Chance wasn’t announced in any traditional way, it was pretty hard to miss Jim Smith’s gi-ant dog holding a heart that said “Open”. Since the opening on Tuesday, Novem-ber 15, there has been a lot of interest, a lot of traffic, a lot of sales, a lot of do-nated items. It’s been truly amazing. Rarely is there a time when there is no one in either Second Chance or in The Back Room—which is now pretty much completed and looks wonderful! Jim made sure that everything looks “Christmassy” and pretty—including his donation of Leonard’s nutcracker collec-tion (as well as numerous other items!). Jenelle Johnson visited on Tuesday morning and interviewed those of the Fundraising Committee who could get away from work/jobs and took a photo-graph in the subtle t-shirts, She wrote a very nice article for the Register which ap-peared on Wednesday. Since then, traf-fic has really picked up and been very heartwarming. It seems as though we have lots of animal lovers in Iola and the surrounding area, and they all have sto-ries about their pet(s) and want to help the shelter. Jeff Heinrich has done a professional job in The Back Room, and has been so ac-commodating to us—already we’re over-flowing into his area. We sincerely appreciate all the wonderful donations; it’s hard to do justice to some of the beautiful pieces. But we know eve-rything’s getting a Second Chance, and we can all appreciate that!

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Andi DePriest, Director Janice Porter, Front Desk

Robyn Porter, Photographer, Petfinders

Ginny Hawk, Fundraising Chair

305 East Highway 54 LaHarpe KS 66751

620-496-3647 www.acarf.org

Hours

11:30 am—5:00 pm Tuesday thru Saturday

Closed Sunday and Monday

Look for us on

Robyn’s Pet of the Week

Look for pictures and descriptions of all available cats and dogs on our website

www.acarf.org

Max

Photographs by Robyn Porter

Meet Max—or, as he is better known around the shelter—“Max-Oh-don’t-you-just-love-him.” Max is an adult male Labrador Re-triever mix, and we believe the mix was with a giant breed, per-haps a Great Dane or Mastiff. He’s a big guy, who should be bigger. Max came to us malnourished, and we are doing our best to get his weight up to where it should be. Although he is a very big dog, Max has the gentlest of souls. He does not jump on people, even though he is delighted to see them. When you sit down by him, Max will lean against you with that huge head, and listen to whatever you have to say. This is simply a wonderful dog who will make a perfect companion.

From the Staff, Volunteers and all the four-legged

friends you support