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Reminder about Donation Drop Off Night at Pizza Hut

Also please scroll down to read my letter to the editor about Steve Stoll’s comments in last week’s Leader

Don’t forget about our donation drop off night this Thursday March 4th at Pizza Hut on Richardson Rd in Arnold from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Just look for the ADOPT t-shirts to get your tickets and ADOPT makes 20% of your total food bill. We could use some help stuffing envelopes with our invitations. If you have any stamps you could donate that would be appreciated too. Also this is a great opportunity to drop off your donations for our largest fundraiser of the year, our 2nd annual dinner auction on April 17th at the Arnold Rec Center from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm. We are in need of donations such as baseball tickets or any sport tickets, baskets such as food or wine, (if you donate a basket it would help if you would list the contents and value), vacations, hotel nights, gift certificates of any kind etc. We need it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are some other ways you can help our homeless animals………………………

Please plan on attending our 2nd annual silent/ oral dinner auction on Saturday April 17th. Tony La Russa will be our guest speaker.

If you are financially able, become a sponsor and get the opportunity of a life time by meeting Tony or being his personal guest at the ball park. Sponsorships start at $1500.00.

ASK! ASK! ASK! – Please donate your time and money to help our homeless animals and ask everyone around you to help too! There is great excitement surrounding this project and people do want to help. Please ask your employers. You might be surprised what they will donate. Ask your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors to get involved. Come to the dinner auction and ask them to come also. Get a table together!

Sharon, a volunteer, is planning a rummage sale possibly in the fall. Start saving your items! No clothes please!
Michelle, a volunteer,is hosting an online gadget drive through Gazelle to raise money for ADOPT (Animals Deserving of Proper Treatment), and would love your support. You can visit her drive webpage at http://ADOPT.gazelle.com
A gadget drive is a new way to fundraise that turns your used electronics (laptops, cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras & more) into cash to support a cause. Contributing to her drive is simple. Just visit her drive webpage, find the value of the gadgets you would like to donate, and send them to Gazelle (shipping is free). The value will go to support ADOPT(Animals Deserving of Proper Treatment).
If you would like to donate, please go to save lives with your old hard drives (http://ADOPT.gazelle.com) to learn more about her drive and track her progress. You will receive a confirmation of your donation by email, and Michelle will be notified as soon as you make your donation.
If you have an upcoming birthday, anniversary, or other event ask people to donate to ADOPT instead. We all have so much and these animals have nothing.
If a loved one passes please ask for donations in lieu of flowers

BELOW IS MY LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEADER

ADOPT is asking for Public Apology from Steve Stoll, JC Director of Administration

ADOPT (Animals Deserving of Proper Treatment) is asking for a public apology from Mr. Steve Stoll, director of Administration for Jefferson County. His comments were an embarrassment and hurtful to those of us in our organization who have worked our butts off to correct this sad and deplorable situation concerning our homeless animals in JC, a situation that our county has constantly ignored. Your comments, “A.D.O.P.T. would have to accept some responsibilities and meet some benchmarks. They would have to have some plans that aren’t just verbal and they would have to provide some information about finances. Once they have presented these things, then MAYBE we would be able to enter into some sort of lease agreement for the land.” MAYBE, Mr. Stoll, MAYBE the county might enter into some sort of a lease agreement? I do not think that the county has any choice. JCAC is an absolute mess and is a terrible embarrassment to our county. This situation hurts businesses, land values, the people of our community, not to mention the death of thousands upon thousands of innocent homeless animals every year. The fact is because of the hard work of Ms. Christine Byers from the Post Dispatch the truth is finally coming out about our dirty little secret that Jefferson County has constantly ignored which is the need for a visible and public friendly animal facility. I am very proud to state, Mr. Stoll, and this is just not verbal. In the past 14 months since we have become a not for profit, our organization has raised close to $300,000.00 in individual donations and foundation commitments, have received multiple verbal commitments from both small and large businesses to work on a new facility free of charge, have received the endorsement from the biggest voice for rescue and adoption in the country, Mr. Tony La Russa, who will be our guest speaker at our upcoming dinner auction on April 17th, have also received the endorsement from another big name in our county, Mr. Kenny Wallace. (both of these men have agreed to put their names on our new facility), is currently working with Ms. Monica Adams of Fox 2 News on upcoming segments. This is just a few of our successes in a very short amount of time not to mention in the worst economic situation since the depression. This, Mr. Stoll, represents a tremendous amount of responsibility and we will be more than happy to meet any and all benchmarks as long as the county agrees to work with us. We are also planning to provide a full set of plans for the county to approve once we receive the lease for the county land. As you know I have been begging our 3 county executives for weeks to jump on this. I just received the letter in the mail this past Thursday and my team is working on your requirements to get it in your hands immediately.
Once again, I am extremely disappointed in your comments and am asking for a public apology and your immediate and speedy support in getting our 3 county executives to approve the lease so that we can get the plans drawn up and get the details in writing that they are requesting.
However I am also asking for continued community support. The truth is these poor homeless kittens, puppies, cats and dogs don’t vote and have not been able to speak up for themselves. So they have been gathered up, pushed into a sub standard difficult to find facility, and killed. And because they do not vote or cannot speak for themselves all of our past and current county governments have just pushed this issue aside. That is why I started A.D.O.P.T. to correct this situation once and for all. Our elected officials are servants of the people and of all creatures in this county. I expect their immediate and speedy support and am once again asking for the support from our community.
Cathey Break, Chairperson For ADOPT