HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYONE!
What a HOWLING success the 2nd Annual Howling Halloween Costume Contest andFundraiser was for Paws Park on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006! We had wonderfulweather, an amazing turnout for the event and raised a phenomenal
There are many THANK YOU'S in order because this event could not have happened or beenso successful without the hard work and the contributions of so many people.
VOLUNTEERS
First and foremost, I want to thank all the volunteers who helpedorganize and work at the event. Without your involvement, this event wouldn'thave happened or been such a success.
Special thanks to those on our organizing committees for all thetime and effort over the last three months getting the event organized. Also,many thanks to all those that volunteered your time the day of the event forthe benefit of Paws Park and so that others could have such a fabulous timewith their best friends.
Special thanks to these great volunteers:
RossBratlee
NormaBrizzi & Eddie and Micah
Leslie& John Chew & their boxers
Holley& Gayle Davis
Lance& Janet Folsom
BennieFurlong
DioneGarnand
CourtneyGeorge
JimGolding
JasonHeuermann
DorisHouser
PattyMall
IlonaMeeks
MaureenMoore
ThomasMurray
NancyPeacock
SuzanneRinebarger & Onyx & Jade
Keisha Rodriguez
RicardoRodriguez
JakkiRoberts
ConnieSmith
Steffanie & Tara Stuart
Mike& Mikel Thibodeau
KimberlyWichlan & Sandy (not me, but her golden retriever) :-)
VelmaWood & Honey
MelissaWright
Pleshette
COSTUME CONTEST
The Costume Contest was great fun with 52 contestants! There wereso many great costumes, the judges had a tough job picking the winners. A big THANKYOU to the judges forvolunteering their time to judge the costume contest for us:
RickKnight - Jacksonville Beach City Council
HarrietPruette - Neptune Beach City Council
FlandSharp - Jacksonville Beach Mayor
LeonaSheddan - Jacksonville Humane Society Board President
SusanStanton - Shorelines Pet Tales Columnist
THANK YOUto all of the people and puppies who dressed up and participated in the costumecontest! CONGRATULATIONS to the costume contest winners:
FunniestDog Costume: Tula the flower withSusie White
ScariestDog Costume: Louie the devil withHeather Martin
MostOriginal Dog Costume: Oakley thecow and Gamble the horse with Priscilla Merkel
Best Dogand Owner Costume: Heather Peeplesand Bentley who were dressed as
We also want to recognize and thank the donors of our contestparticipant gifts:
StarBarks Pet Boutique
MaureenMoore
Petco
Special thanks to the donors of the contest winner prize packages:
Swoozie's at St. John's Town Center
Crunch,Maxx & Woody's Famous Pets
A Friendin the Woods Pet Sitting
OliveGarden at Regency
Petco atMarsh Landing
DelMonte Foods & First Coast No More Homeless Pets
Last but not least, we want to thank Jason Heuermann for being themaster of ceremonies for the costume contest! Great job, Jason!
RAFFLE
This year we had over $1800 in prizes donated and we raised over$1600 in raffle ticket sales!!! That is awesome!!! The raffle was a lot of funand many people won some fabulous prizes including a grand prize "SpookySt. Augustine Get-Away"!
Special thanks goes to:
KimberlyWichlan and Connie Smith, our event raffle coordinators
Holley& Gayle Davis for printing the raffle tickets
JasonHeuermann for being our raffle emcee
Special thanks goes out to the people and businesses who donatedprizes for the raffle.
We thank them all for their support of Paws Park!
Please thank the following businesses who contributed to theraffle by giving them your patronage!
AlphaPet Care
BobRankine
Casa MonicaHotel, St. Augustine
Cloud K9Mobile Pet Spa
Constance, Animal Communicator
Creatures Great and Small Pet Services
Crunch,Maxx & Woody's Famous Pets
Culhane's Irish Public House
Elizabeth, Oliver & Stanley Hayes
FurPeople Pet Grooming
FursacePet Designers
Get BackJack Pet Car Safety Net
GhostTours of St. Augustine
HairGallery
Jacksonville Zoo
JasonHeuermann
JayLubeck Jewelers
Joseph'sPizza Italian Restaurant
KateBeck
Lisa Ussery
O.C.White's Food & Spirits, St. Augustine
PetSupermarket
Petlagio
RagtimeTavern
SeaTurtle Inn
Shorelines Gift Shop
Slider'sSeafood Grille
SteadySteps Therapy
StickyFingers
The BookMark
TomTrechel
TurtleIsland Market & Natural Foods
WineWarehouse
EVENT TABLE PARTICIPANTS
We would like to recognize and thank all the event tableparticipants (vendors, non-profits and rescue groups) that supported Paws Parkby participating in the event.
Special thanks to Norma Brizzi and Jakki Roberts, our event tableparticipant coordinators.
VENDORS
We hope you visited all the vendor tables to learn more about themand we ask that you thank them for their support of Paws Park by giving themyour patronage in the future!
AgilityPet Resort
AtlanticEast Pet Center
Crunch,Maxx & Woody's Famous Pets
DogWatch of Jacksonville
FriendlyPet Taxi
Get BackJack Pet Safety Nets
KellerWilliams Realty
Miss Daisy'sDelights
OllieKoala's Backyard
PetButler
Pawsitive Solutions and Alpha Pet Care: these businesses were unable to attend the event,
ShurePet Pet Products
RESCUE GROUPS & NON-PROFITS
We hope that everyone visited the rescue group and non-profittables at the event to learn more about the wonderful things theseorganizations are doing for animal welfare and for pets in our communities. Also,please consider supporting and helping these organizations continue to do theimportant work that they are doing.
BoxerAid & Rescue
DogSports Clubs
FirstCoast No More Homeless Pets
Jacksonville Humane Society
PetRescue North
Shih Tzuand Fur Baby Rescue
Tat-Too-A-Pet: This groupmicrochipped 6 dogs and tattoo'ed 3 dogs at the event!
PHOTOS
We sold 48 Halloween photos this year and all the photos weregreat! Thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the photo area the day ofthe event. We also want to recognize
the following people for their special contributions to the photoarea:
SuzanneRinebarger: photographer who took the great photos!
Kathyand Carla Brycer: backdrop designers and donated some of the backdrop items
KimWilliams: donated the hay
CourtneyGeorge: donated some of the items for the backdrop
WATER
We would like to recognize and thank Jacksonville Coca-Cola of theFlorida Coca-Cola Bottling Company for their donation of bottle water for theevent!
SOUND SYSTEM
We want to recognize and thank John Tipton with the musical groupthe Mosquitoes who provided the sound system and music for the event! The soundsystem was great and we appreciate John volunteering his time to provide andsetup the sound system for our event!
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE BEACH
Last, but not least, we want to thank the City of JacksonvilleBeach Parks and Recreation Department for providing the tent, tables, chairsand power. We also want to thank the city's special events department for theirhelp and for advertising the event on the city web site.
GaryMeadors
MarilynMatejcek
RoyPaxson
LorraineTroendle
MercedeGardner
Most importantly, we want to thank the City of Jax Beach foreverything they have done to make Paws Park a reality and everything theycontinue to do in support of the park. We are extremely thankful to the City ofJax Beach for providing our community with such a great place to enjoy with ourdog friends and people friends!
Hope you all had a HAPPY and SAFE HALLOWEEN!