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Vol. 14, No. 1
April 13, 2017
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Elwood shelter marks 90 years of saving animals BY VICTORIA ESPINOZA VICTORIA@TBRNEWSPAPERS.COM
Greenlawn resident raises money for Suffolk foster kids
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PJ gears up for Health & Wellness Fair Also: ‘Where There’s a Will’ opens at Theatre Three; Spring Coloring Contest winners
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‘It’s like a miracle every day here.’ — Maryann Chernovsky Photo from Little Shelter
three years yet?’” she said chuckling. Chernovsky and her husband never left, and the Little Shelter became a home to them. “It’s like a family,” she said. “It’s a very special place. People
feel good when they leave at night. It’s like a miracle every day here.” Chernovsky’s husband Andy died two years ago after being diagnosed with ALS. But she said the disease couldn’t slow his pas-
sion for the shelter. “He was such a part of it,” she said of her late husband. “I saw just how attached he was and what the shelter meant to him.
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When in business for nine decades, times can certainly get ruff, but the Little Shelter has stood the test of time. The Elwood-based shelter turned 90 this year, a remarkable milestone many residents might have thought was impossible in the past. Anna Hunninghouse, a Huntington resident who saw local stray animals being rounded up and shot if no one came to claim them, established the shelter in the 1920s. She opened the no-kill shelter as a humane society that would care for animals living on the streets and dying from diseases. “She wanted to give animals respect and take them off the streets,” current shelter director David Ceely said in a phone interview. He said the shelter is still on the original property and functioning in the original buildings and grounds. But Ceely said in the later half of the 20th century the shelter became dormant, after Hunninghouse passed away, and almost shut down at one point. “It was only open a few times a week, and Maryann was asked to help,” Ceely said. Maryann Chernovsky, the volunteer president of Little Shelter, was asked 27 years ago to take control of the shelter and help bring it back to life. She had experience working at other similar organizations, and she said she originally promised her husband she would only be working there for a few years to get them on their feet. “I told him it would take three years to get it up and running,” Chernovsky said in a phone interview. “And every year after that period he would ask ‘has it been