March 2010 The Reporter
The Save A Pet Society
The Save A Pet Society auction is over for another year. Once again it was a total success and we, the volunteers of Save A Pet, are pleased and grateful that we have raised a significant amount of money that will fund the programs for the Seekonk Animal Shelter for another year. We thank everyone who had any part in promoting, supporting, funding, attending and spending that perpetuated the process from start to finish with their time, items, publicity, and energy to produce the final product, resulting in the selling and buying that are integral to the success of the SAPS auction. You are too many to name, but we are grateful to everyone who has enabled us to have another successful auction. I long have held the belief that this very special community event truly has a life of its own that is not dependent upon the number of our dedicated volunteers that are involved or who is in charge or what officers are sitting on the board. It matters not who is running the animal shelter so much as it matters that we have an animal shelter in which we all as individuals take pride and that as a community we can value and support. It matters that our animal shelter provides protection for the lost and stray animals that come into the custody of our Animal Control Officers and that we provide the funds to make and keep them whole, both in body and in spirit and that our shelter is committed to finding those animals worthy homes. It is about the hearts of our volunteers who are willing and devoted, who are amazing in their capacity to bring enthusiasm to the three televised nights of the auction and to the 5 months that precede it as we prepare. This event involves so many of the residents of the Town of Seekonk who turn out in force to support this event, bidding over the phones or coming to Johnson & Wales in person. It involves all those individuals that take microphone in hand to announce and sell the donated items. We have celebrities from TV and radio, but we have our own home grown celebrities when Town officials are kind enough to come to lend their support. We gather a cross-section of the community and people from outside of Seekonk. The SAPS auction draws people from all walks of life, from all financial levels and from all age groups, just as the Seekonk Animal Shelter itself has the support of people from all over who share a common commitment to the animals. Nothing else in our community, in my opinion, goes across the board to appeal to so many who gladly lend their time and effort to see us succeed, who put individual personal or political differences aside to support our organization and ultimately our animal shelter. On behalf of all those who benefit ultimately and who cannot thank you in words, we thank you. All the animals that are helped by our animal shelter are so worthy of your support and we are most appreciative that you have given it for yet another year. Jan Bowden, Seekonk ACO Retired / Save A Pet volunteer
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