BY EUGENE Z. ZAPHIRIS
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ful breeder and exhibitor of Chows under the Starcrest prefix. His Starcrest kennels in Sun Valley, California was also the onetime home of MARY RODGERS & MIKE SHEA as well as CHRIS & WOOD WORNALL. We were saddened to hear of the passing of ANTONIO PRATT (TONI) of Von Meistersinger kennels. The Von Meistersinger prefix was behind many winning harlequin Great Danes. Celebrating Birthdays…PETER GREEN, TOM NATALINI, JOHN MCCARTNEY, PAM SAGE, SALLY SASSER, MELISSA PILLOW, DOROTHY INGAMELS, CHRIS WORNALL, BETTY ANNE STENMARK, BOBBI DAVIS, RON JARAMILLO, MELISSA TURNER, LORAINE BOUTWELL, KARIN ASHE, CAROL MURRAY, LINDA WILSON, JIM HALL, MADISON WEEKS, DON MARTIN, CHRIS MANELOPOULOS, DAVID ALEXANDER, JENNIFER MILLER FARIAS, REBECCA HEIMANN, LINDA NOLL, LAURIE CAMPBELL, ELLEN FETTER, DANIEL
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was off for judging/holiday in India. BETH SWEIGART and PETER GREEN are off to judge in Puerto Rico. A docking ban will take place as of January 1st in Northern Ireland. Those who break the law will be subject to a fine and two years in prison. Some working dogs will be exempt from the new law. All of us at DOG NEWS were saddened to hear that the Pekingese fancier GABE COVO has passed away. Together with his late wife CLAUDIA they exhibited parti-colored Pekingese handled by the late DEE SHEPHERD and JOY BREWSTER and were also involved in breed rescue. Our deepest sympathies to their daughter JOYA and family. JOEL MARSTON, actor of stage and screen, has passed away at the age of 90. He spent the last twenty years of his life in Jacksonville, Florida. During his many years in the Los Angeles area, JOEL was a well known and success-
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Avoiding fallen trees, telephone poles and closed streets, we managed to get to Kennedy Airport for our flight to London. There, we attended Discover Dogs, (what our Meet The Breeds is based on) the annual two-day love-in held at Earl’s Court. Attending the event were Kennel Club chairman STEVE DEAN and former chairman RONNIE IRVING (who manned his breed stand on Sunday), JOHN SPURLING, ROSEMARY SMART, VANESSA MCALPINE, LIZ CARTLEDGE, SUE SAMPSON, GERALD KING, BILL HARDAWAY and VINCE HOGAN. Attending from the American Kennel Club were president DENNIS & SUSAN SPRUNG, traveling with vice president of marketing MICHAEL GANEY and assistant vice president of registration development MARK DUNN. Starting in 2013, dogs and all other animals flying into New York’s Kennedy Airport will have a new 35-million dollar state of the art arrival center. It will include kennels for dogs, cats, horses and all other types of animals providing medical and grooming facilities. RANDY LEVINE, president of the New York Yankees baseball team, contacted DENNIS SPRUNG at the American Kennel Club to offer some assistance in light of the recent storm to hit the New York area. When contacted IAMS graciously donated 44,000 pounds of food and the New York Yankees paid for the distribution of the food to help feed displaced and homeless pets. FRANCINE & BERNIE SCHWARTZ spent an extra week in Israel thanks to Sandy, postponing their return trip to Chicago. EDD BIVIN no sooner returned from a judging assignment in Peru than he
MEHLING, MIGUEL BETANCOURT, KATHY BILLICICH GARCIA, PAM OXENBERG, ESTEBAN FARIAS, ADRIANO ROCHA, ERNESTO LARA, JULIE JONES, HAL BIERMANN, PAULA MURRAY, THERESA LYONS, ABBE SHAW, SYDNEY GOOD, JASON HOKE and ALISA ANDRAS.