Corner is volunteer and foster extraordinaire

Terri Corner’s journey started with two kittens that she adopted from the Animal Welfare League in 2009. Through the adoption process, Corner could not help but to “honor their benevolence,” as she puts it.

After quitting her job, Corner found herself with too much time on her hands.

She started volunteering at the shelter shortly after. She started with laundry duties, but moved on to administrative assistance. “They throw me wherever they need me and I will do it,” she jokes. She has always been an animal lover, and is not afraid to get her hands dirty.

Her favorite part of her volunteering experience is every time she got to bring animals to local nursing homes. She recounted all the smiles and laughs from the residents and said, “animals are powerful therapy.”

Corner loved her work at the AWL so much, she started to bring her work home with her. She began her fostering journey in 2014, because “the shelter can do so much, but they cannot do it all. I saw a place where I can step in and help, and so I did.”

Throughout her time fostering, Corner has gained invaluable knowledge that she has shared with the shelter and every owner she comes into contact with.

She describes fostering as a “24/7 job,” reporting an early night lands her in bed at about midnight, but during typical nights her head hits the pillow around two or three a.m.

Times get tough, but seeing animals heal and grow keeps her motivation high. One of her favorite foster success stories happened early in her fostering career, a black kitten was on the verge of death, his liver enzymes were through the roof. A kitten so sick Corner had to bottle feed him because he was to weak to stand to eat. She was sure the kitten would not make it through the night, but much to her surprise, he came strutting out the cage in the morning and ate his entire bottle of breakfast. Corner had no explanation for the overnight recovery, other than a miracle.

“Getting to watch animals heal and get better and knowing you gave them their life back is so indescribably powerful,” she explained.

Corner estimated she has about 30 fosters in her care, and they have taken over her renovated basement.

“Fostering can be as little or as much as you make it,”

Corner explains, “you just have to keep it in the back of your mind and in the front of your heart that you are here for the animals.”

The Animal Welfare League runs on volunteers and donations. “We can find a job for anyone,” Corner promised. Anyone interested in volunteering for the Animal Welfare League can visit awlwarsaw.com. Their donation wish list can also be found there.

Seasonal savings

As summer approaches closing time, it’s time to stock up on T-shirts, shorts and swim suits. Of course, you already picked up your parkas and snowboards as spring slipped by a few months ago.

Be picky about economy class airplane seats

Legroom — the distance from the point of one seat to the same point on the seat in front of it — has become a common currency among flyers seeking the most comfort in the crowd- ed cabin in the sky. Known as seat pitch, it ranges from 28 to 34 inches on U.S. carriers.

Seat width, which ranges from 17 to 18 inches, also is a comfort consideration. Widebodied aircraft that are squeezing in more rows of seats are most likely to have the narrow- est economy class seating. While window seats offer a bit more privacy than an aisle seat and more comfort than a middle seat, it may not have a window at all because not all seating rows line up with the aircraft’s windows.

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Post-season shopping can save you money and still keep your closet comfortably stocked with new clothing.

A simple example of this method of saving is the annual trip to the shopping mall the day after Christmas to stock up on gift-wrapping paper for next year.

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