President’s Message

Fall Membership Meeting Newport News Park, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Garage Brewery Event Chesapeake, 12:00 – 6:00 pm

Please check our website for up-to-date information It has been a busy, crazy time and I want to share some important and timely updates. Website: By the time you read this, we will have picked https://adoptagolden.com up our first Turkey Dogs in over a year! It has Facebook: taken us months to get our ducks in a row – or should I say Dogs In A Row – to make

Southeastern Virginia Golden it happen BuT definitely worth it. Our rescue

Retriever Rescue, Education, and Training! partners in Turkey have over 100+ Golden Retrievers hoping to catch a ride to the uS and live the dream. We are working with 2 other Golden Rescues to make sure their dream comes true. We took in a very beautiful and very pregnant Golden named layla. 6 of the 7 pups are black with a little white on their bellies, and a cute variety of “socks” on their feet. Turkey Dog Onyx swears he is not the baby daddy and layla’s not talking. In the last 5 weeks, we have brought into the rescue 17 Goldens; add in layla’s 7 puppies and you can see it has been a very busy time for the Intake and Foster Coordinators. If you ever thought you might

GRREAT ADS like to foster, now is the time to reach out to Jane. Just go to our website adoptagolden.GRREAT Times is now offering advertising space. com and read about the process. Rates per issue for various size ads are: Full Page = $150 1/2 Page = $100 1/3 Page = $75 1/6 Page = $50 A discounted rate for multiple issue placement is available. Email requests, size and specification questions to grreattimes@adoptagolden.com. Every effort will be made to put your ad in the desired issue. GRREAT Times is published quarterly the second week of January, April, July, and October. Deadline for submitting an AD is the 1st of the month prior to the publication date. A Busy & Crazy Time Speaking of our website, have you been to our site lately? We have a new website, and it looks GRREAT!!!! Many thanks to liz Hanson for volunteering her time and effort in developing an amazing website for us. With all our local intakes and the Turkey Dogs we hope to bring over, we have lots of fundraisers scheduled through the rest of the year. Including a Beach House raffle! One of our very awesome families donated a weeklong stay at their beach house in Nags Head! We are going to have a raffle for 2 very beautiful quilts that Ann Czompo made. Several SEVA GRREAT members have donated beautiful items that we are going to auction off in November. So, think Christmas gifts!! Thank you for helping us make a difference! We are so very grateful for your unwavering support. With your help, just think of all that we can accomplish before the end of the year! Deb