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 NAWS is so excited to announce the presentation of the Levee Run proceeds! The Riverside Riverfest committee, Mayor Kathy Rose (R), Levee Run Race Director Mike O’dell (L) present a check for $3,175.75 to NAWS from the proceeds of the Levee Run. Goldie Arnold, NAWS President (2nd from left), race participant and NAWS voulunteer, Jane Daniel (2nd from R) accept the donation. NAWS is raising funds to build a 21st century animal campus for homeless and abandoned pets in Platte and Clay counties. According to Mayor Kathy Rose, this was the largest contribution the City of Riverside has donated to a charity in the 13 years the event has been going on. The next NAWS fundraising event will be Santa PAWS for NAWS at Zona Rosa on Monday, December 8th from 4-8 pm. Free photo of you and your pet with Santa Paws, plus a goody bag to go!
UPCOMING CHARITY EVENTS:810 Sports Radio hosts benefit for Northland Animal Welfare Society (NAWS) & K.C. Parks & Recreation Dippin' DogsBring your pooch for a swim in the pool just for them! $5.00 admission per canine to swim Thursday- September 4th- 4:00 P.M.- 7:00 P.M. Line Creek Community Center 5940 NW Waukomis Dr Sports Radio 810 WHB radio host Kevin Kietzman will be broadcasting live! Gary Lezak and Breezy will be broadcasting live the 5:00 & 6:00 P.M. weather! Several pet-related vendors will be participating, area rescue groups will have dog for adoption, door prizes, contests, agility demos and tons of give-a-ways. Goody bags to the first 81 registered participants. One dog per person. Children under 10 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. For further information please contact: ************************************************************************************RIVERFEST LEVEE 5K/10K RUN Date: Saturday, September 20, 20087:30 A.M. E.H. Young Park1001 NW Argosy Pkwy
Riverside, MO 64150 The Levee Run is held in conjunction with the FREE Riverside Riverfest in beautiful E.H. Young Riverfront Park. Free inflatable rides, Chely Wright Concert, Riverfront Fireworks. Begins Friday the 19th at 5PM. Go to www.riverside.com\riverfest08 Strollers, skates and pets are not allowed except on the 2-Mile Walk Course. This event will occur rain or shine. All entry fees will go to benefit Northland Animal Welfare Society(NAWS) Prizes $100 CASH prize for the Top Overall Male and Female 5K & 10K $50 CASH prize for the 2nd Place Overall Male and Female 5K & 10K $25 CASH prize for the 3rd Place Overall Male and Female 5K & 10K Trophies will also be awarded to the top 3 places male and female runners in each age division. Medals will be awarded to all Kid’s Run participants. Everyone that pre-registers is guaranteed a FREE Levee Run T-Shirt Packet Pickup You may pick up your packet and pre-register at the E.H. Young Park (where the race starts) on Wednesday, Sept 17th between 4 PM and 8 PM. Look for BJ under the covered stage next to the Riverwalk. 10K Levee Run - $20.00
5K Levee Run - $20.00
Kids Run - Free ******************************************************************************************************************************************** Zona Rosa Presents: Wag & Wash Pet Adoption Expo &Dog Wash Saturday- September 27, 2008 12:00 P.M.- 4:00 P.M. Zona Rosa- Town Square Zona Rosa announced in April the shopping area is now pet-friendly. To introduce more pets to the community they have invited over 25 animal rescue groups to come and showcase their adoptable pets! Come and meet the group leaders, the adorable dogs &cats and help in the effort of finding forever homes for these stray and abandoned animals. Goody bags will be given to everyone who adopts a pet the day of the event. The dog wash will benefit Northland Animal Welfare Society (NAWS) with Kathy's Klippery Mobile Wash providing the grooming service. Bring your dogs for a squeaky clean bath and treats to go. Small dogs $10.00 - Large Dogs $20.00. For more information 816.830.7759 or www.pcnaws.com NAW is raising the necessary funds to build a 21st century animal campus in the Northland that will serve both Clay & Platte counties. Please come out and support the cause! Al has selected five charities that will be the receipents of 90% of his profits from his newly opened Animals In Need Thriftstore. Here is a photo of the check for $500.00 that Al Richey presented to NAWS today. L to R:
Kim Moore- Secretary-NAW
Al Richey- Animals in Need Thriftstore
Jane Daniel- NAWS volunteer
Goldie Arnold- President
What an amazing contribution he is making to the welfare of animals in the Northland. He is also making his store available for weekend pet adoptions. Kitty Cat Connections will be there on Saturdays. Group targets chocolate lovers at fundraiser
A Chocolate A’Furrrr funds to go to Northland Animal Welfare Society
By Jeffrey M. Salem
Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:21 AM CST
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A Northland group raising funds — and awareness — to build an all-encompassing animal shelter is targeting the chocoholic inside everyone.
The Northland Animal Welfare Society will host A Chocolate A’Furrrr from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at the home of Patty and Charles Garney, 4200 N. Hickory Lane.
All of the funds collected from ticket sales and the event’s silent auction will go toward society’s mission to fund a shelter for abandoned animals on 10 acres of land in rural Platte or Clay County.
Attendees of the invitation-only fundraiser can expect an elegant affair with hors d’oeuvres from Northland restaurants as well as beer, wine and gourmet coffee. To fulfill the theme of the night, a chocolate bar and fountain will be served alongside fruit. Cocktail attire is required.
The event is somewhat off base from the group’s inaugural fundraiser last summer, the Ruff Ride Dice Run for motorcycles and hot rods, which raised $15,000, said Goldie Arnold, the society’s president.
But that was the plan.
“We wanted something a bit more elegant, the setting a little bit warmer, but still fun,” said Leslie Iiams, the event co-chairwoman.
The silent auction has more than 80 items up for bid and includes donated diamond jewelry, framed prints and “high-scale” gift certificates, Iiams said. The only live auction event is a dinner with C.W. Gusewelle, noted author and Kansas City Star columnist.
“Every event you’re going to pull in a different set of people, and we wanted to gear our silent auction toward this occasion,” she said.
Since its creation in November 2006, Arnold said the society had raised $30,000. She said she expected at least $1 million to be needed to build the shelter.
Public outfits have already shown an interest. Riverside has pledged $150,000 in this year’s budget, Arnold said. It was a gesture she hoped would continue for such a needed cause.
“There’s no other group in the Kansas City metro area doing what we’re doing,” she said, and noted most animal rescue facilities were full and allowed only dogs and cats. “Horses, cows, lamas — whoever needs help, we want to provide shelter for them until they find a home.”
The nonprofit is focusing on fundraising and has three events planned for 2008 so far. Arnold said the group was seeking eight to 10 acres of rural land to be donated for the project to minimize costs.
To receive an invitation to A Chocolate A’Furrrr, contact Iiams in the evening at 734-8798 or visit the Northland Animal Welfare
Society’s Web site at www.pcnaws.com. Tickets are $50 each or $75 per couple. Sponsor levels ranging from
$50 to $500 are also available.
The Details:
To receive an invitation to the Northland Animal Welfare Society Chocolate A’Furrrr, contact Leslie Iiams in the evening at 734-8798 or visit the society’s Web site at www.pcnaws.com. Tickets are $50 each or $75 per couple.
Staff writer Jeffrey M. Salem can be reached at 389-6653 or jeffsalem@npgco.com. Animal welfare group raising funds for no-kill shelter
Shelter would serve Clay and Platte counties
By: Natalie Shelton
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:28 PM CDT
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Fundraising are under way for a new animal shelter to serve the Northland.
The Northland Animal Welfare Society, known as NAWS, is committed to funding a care-for-life high adoption facility that would serve Clay and Platte counties, said society president Goldie Arnold.
NAWS, which formed last fall, will begin holding four major fundraisers a year, the first being a Ruff Ride Dice Run for bikes, hot rods and sports cars on Saturday, June 16.
The 100-mile Dice Run costs $20 per bike or car, or $25 the day of the event. Sponsorships ranging from $250 to $1,000 are available.
NAWS is committed to providing a shelter that can house all animals, not just dogs and cats, Arnold said.
“We’ve been told to dream big,” Arnold said. “If there’s a semi that turns over on I-70 that is carrying horses that become injured, the closest place they could be taken right now for care is the humane society in St. Louis.”
NAWS would like to find a five- or 10-acre site for the shelter in Clay or Platte counties.
The Wayside Waifs animal shelter in Kansas City has a 42-acre site that is somewhat similar to what NAWS would like to provide, but it serves only dogs and cats.
NAWS members currently have raised about $5,000. Kris Mydler of Parkville said NAWS hopes to work with the city of Riverside, for its mayor has committed $500,000 toward an animal shelter, something, of course, that NAWS wants to provide.
Arnold said the many rescue groups in the area were excited that NAWS was raising funds for a no-kill shelter.
“We don’t want to eliminate rescue groups at all because they do such vital work,” Arnold said. “We just want to provide those rescue groups a place to bring animals. So many of them keep animals in their own homes or work so hard to find foster and permanent homes for them.”
Arnold said NAWS envisioned a shelter that would provide educational classes and also would have a low-cost spay-and-neuter program.
“We know that if we just build a shelter, that’s not going to solve everything until we take on the issue of overpopulation,” she said. “The reality is we have an overpopulation problem in the Northland ,or we wouldn’t have so many rescue groups out there.”
For more information on NAWS and its dice run, visit www.pcnaws.com or call 830-7759.
Staff writer Natalie Shelton can be reached at 781-4941 or nshelton@npgco.com.
Platte County mayors discuss countywide animal shelter By: Jared Hoffmann
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:55 PM CST Riverside Mayor Kathy Rose held a meeting with Platte County’s other mayors and commissioners Jan. 11 to discuss the possibility of constructing an advanced animal shelter to service the county.
The meeting marked the first time the officials had convened to discuss the issue. No details have been solidified, and Rose said the goal of the first few meetings would be to discuss issues such as funding and location options. During the meeting, Rose stressed that in order for the shelter to come to fruition, all municipalities would have to work together.
“I think collectively we’ve got to support that shelter,” Rose said. “Each city would still have to maintain their own animal control. We would just have a shelter to take the animals to, and none of us have that right now.”
Also present at the meeting were members of the Northland Animal Welfare Society, a nonprofit organization that would work to spur fundraising for prospective shelter.
Society President Goldie Arnold said generating financial support for the prospective shelter would be the group’s priority.
“We hope to be instrumental in bringing about an animal shelter in Platte County, which is desperately needed,” Arnold said. “We want to be the money makers to help subsidize this.”
Rose said the county’s current policy was to take stray animals to the Wayside Waifs animal shelter on Martha Truman Road in Kansas City. She said constructing a shelter within the county would make it easier for officials to transport strays and for residents to find lost pets.
“Obviously, animal control is a Platte County issue,” Rose said. “It’s a matter of convenience and availability.”
Rose said the next step would be to gather information on possible locations and determine projected costs for construction and ongoing maintenance. She said the issue would be discussed further during a county mayors meeting in February.
“We need to quantify what the costs are and what our needs are,” Rose said. “We’ve got momentum and are heading in the right direction.”
Arnold said a series of fundraisers, including a dice run in June, would take place in an effort to generate consistent funding on an annual basis.
To provide insight on the maintenance needs of an expansive animal shelter, Courtney Thomas, director of operations for Wayside Waifs, also attended the Jan. 11 meeting. She said Wayside Waifs opened in 2000 and had incurred operating expenses of roughly $250,000 a month. She said the facility had 50 employees and serviced more than 350 animals per day on its 44-acre campus.
Platte County officials at the meeting agreed the prospective county shelter would initially cover about 5 acres, with room for future expansion.
“I think the key is recognizing that the potential for growth is there,” Thomas said. “So it is important to set up your facility in such a way that if you want to expand, you will have the ability to do so.”
Staff writer Jared Hoffmann can be reached at 389-6636 or jaredhoffmann@npgco.com.
KC Star Planner NORTHLAND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY (NAWS) 1ST ANNUAL RUFF RIDE Dice Run June 16th 9:00am to RAISE MONEY FOR A STATE OF THE ART ANIMAL SHELTER in the Northland. PRE-REGISTRATION - APRIL 1ST AT THE KEARNEY BIKE SHOW-VFW HALL- 11:00am -1:00pm 301 W. Washington St. 816-628-4548. JOIN Slacker from 99.7 KYYS FOR A 100 MILE SCENIC RIDE THROUGH THE NORTHLAND. WITH 4 "DICE RUN" STOPS ENDING AT PETE'S INN - I-29 & 64TH ST. FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT by Scotty & The Soultones, PRIZES & RAFFLES. |
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