With all due respect to the work that Last Hope Safe Haven is doing, my concern is that this "challenge" to the Breed Clubs would hurt local rescue groups such as ours, who have received support from our regional club in the past (Iroquois German Shepherd Dog Club of Syracuse). I hope the "challenge" is to support rescue in general and not just one group. We have many of the same fund raising mechanisms in place (Good Search, Coupons for Food, Purina Partner, etc.) and we'd like our local groups to continue supporting our efforts. Maybe "support for rescue" should be a line item on the Club Challenge award! If a Regional Club supports German Shepherd Rescue Group with a monetary donation, they get a certain number of points. Tami Evans German Shepherd Rescue of Central New York, Inc. A Federal 501(C)(3) Non Profit Organization www.gsrcny.org /From/: "Pat Lukos" <targa50@xxxxxxxxxxx>/ To/: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>/ Date/: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:29:02 -0400Subject: Re: [ SHOWGSD-L ] LAST HOPE THANK YOU Last Hope Safe Haven, Inc. (501c3) would like to thank the German Shepherd Dog Club of Western PA for inviting us to set up a rescue table at their specialty last week. There are so many people to acknowledge for all their help -- first to the Board of Directors and Show Secretary who helped make our job easy with set up and still run a fantastic show with conformation, obedience and rally. Last Hope held its Chinese Auction and thank you to everyone who bought tickets or items we had for sale. Since there were other breed dogs there for obedience we made sure we had other breed items of interest which brought over exhibitors with other breeds. We raised $370.25 for a few short hours!! Now on to some other special thank you's - to Melanie Fuellgraf and Kathy Ingram who arranged and donated about 15 baskets, the White German Shepherd Dog Club for a beautiful basket, and Club Member Arlene Henderson for the beautiful German Shepherd basket she put together, our Board Member Joe Maringo of Southwestern PA Retriever Rescue who sold tickets all day for us and Joe Gorsic for helping us put things away at the end when we were exhausted - LOL. I would like to challenge other Breed Clubs to try this for rescue. A Last Hope member doesn't have to be there but we can send you things for your table and you gather up some baskets or donations. I will be glad to help anyone that would like to do this. Amy Greenhut is also good at this and I know would help and advise on how she did it at the Detroit club show. It is all for those GSDs that need us NOW!! Regional Clubs working together can help us save some of those less fortunate that find themselves unwanted. Let us help you help Last Hope!! Pat Lukos SARAVA German Shepherds Secretary, Last Hope Safe Haven, Inc. 501c3 www.lasthopesafehaven.com ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================