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So many cats need your help Short of money, Humane Society may be forced to close ing to $53,759 in 2021 and $72,933 in 2022. At this point, the nonprofit The Long Beach Humane needs to raise $50,000 to stay Society, which has been in oper- afloat. Its Kitty Cove, a shelter and ation since 1976, is at risk of closing amid a financial crisis adoption center in Island Park, worsened by the coronavirus which typically cares for 70 to 100 kittens and cats, currently pandemic. “It takes a lot of money to shelters 30. At the end of run a nonprofit, especially this December, the organization size,” volunteer Kim Boley said. temporarily stopped accepting additional animals “Believe it or not, in order to cut we might look costs. small, but I would “Some cats are say we have almost residents, and you 400 cats a year. That have to look at them includes medical, it and say, you know, includes food, it at some point, are includes labor, litthey going to lose ter, or other things HElEN AloI their home?” Helen w e n e e d . W i t h Director, Long Beach Aloi, the Humane Covid, unfortunate- Humane Society Society’s director, l y, f u n d r a i s i n g said. “How do we wasn’t a possibility. Regardless of how we tried, it stop that? So to stop something wasn’t. So our savings were like that, and make sure that they have a home forever, we’ve tapped into.” In 2020, the organization, got to slow down and stop taknow headquartered on Austin ing and stop saving more lives. Boulevard in Island Park, suf- It kills us, but this is their fered a steep drop in revenue home. Some of them are adoptfrom “gifts, grants, contribu- able, some of them just want to tions, and membership fees,” as stay here, and we’re going to revealed on its federal tax make sure that that happens.” The organization cares not forms, from $75,208 in 2019 to $10,750. Subsequent years saw a only for cats in need, but dogs recovery, with revenue increas-
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Christopher Alvarez, 26, is a bilingual disability activist, reporter and filmmaker who was diagnosed with thanatophoric dysplasia, and is the only person in the world known to have the condition. Last Saturday at the Sands, he was a model.
Limb loss and prosthetics are featured on this fashion runway By ABIGAIl GRIECo Intern
The Sands, in Atlantic Beach, hosted the Limb Kind Foundation’s fourth annual Show Your Shine Adaptive Runway Show last Saturday. The event is organized by Jill Smith, an occupational therapist who founded Show Your Shine to raise funds to benefit the Limb Kind Foundation and celebrate those with limb loss. She teams up each year with her brother, Robert Schulman, the founder and executive director of Limb Kind, a nonprofit that was founded in Oceanside and is now headquartered in Ozone Park, whose mission, according to it website, is “improving
the lives of children with limb loss, both domestic and international, by strengthening the amputee community and providing pediatric prosthetic care to all.” The event has repeatedly been a sold-out success, drawing attention to the courage and resilience of young people with limb differences and limb loss and creating a supportive environment for them. “This is a special evening that continues to further advance our mission of improving the lives of children with limb loss,” Schulman said, “by strengthening the amputee community … not only in New York, but around the world.” The show isn’t merely a celebration; it’s Continued on pAge 10
here’s just so much we can do.
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