HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYONE!
What a HOWLING success the 2nd Annual Howling Halloween Costume Contest and
Fundraiser was for Paws Park on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006! We had wonderful
weather, an amazing turnout for the event and raised a phenomenal $2,500 for maintenance and improvements to Paws
Park!!! The money raised at this event triples what we raised at last year's
Howling Halloween event and that is fantastic!!!
There are many THANK YOU'S in order because this event could not have happened or been
so successful without the hard work and the contributions of so many people.
VOLUNTEERS
First and foremost, I want to thank all the volunteers who helped
organize and work at the event. Without your involvement, this event wouldn't
have happened or been such a success.
Special thanks to those on our organizing committees for all the
time 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 for
the benefit of Paws Park and so that others could have such a fabulous time
with their best friends.
Special thanks to these great volunteers:
Ross
Bratlee
Norma
Brizzi & Eddie and Micah
Leslie
& John Chew & their boxers
Holley
& Gayle Davis
Lance
& Janet Folsom
Bennie
Furlong
Dione
Garnand
Courtney
George
Jim
Golding
Jason
Heuermann
Doris
Houser
Patty
Mall
Ilona
Meeks
Maureen
Moore
Thomas
Murray
Nancy
Peacock
Suzanne
Rinebarger & Onyx & Jade
Keisha Rodriguez
Ricardo
Rodriguez
Jakki
Roberts
Connie
Smith
Steffanie & Tara Stuart
Mike
& Mikel Thibodeau
Kimberly
Wichlan & Sandy (not me, but her golden retriever) :-)
Velma
Wood & Honey
Melissa
Wright
Pleshette
COSTUME CONTEST
The Costume Contest was great fun with 52 contestants! There were
so many great costumes, the judges had a tough job picking the winners. A big THANK
YOU to the judges for
volunteering their time to judge the costume contest for us:
Rick
Knight - Jacksonville Beach City Council
Harriet
Pruette - Neptune Beach City Council
Fland
Sharp - Jacksonville Beach Mayor
Leona
Sheddan - Jacksonville Humane Society Board President
Susan
Stanton - Shorelines Pet Tales Columnist
THANK YOU
to all of the people and puppies who dressed up and participated in the costume
contest! CONGRATULATIONS to the costume contest winners:
Funniest
Dog Costume: Tula the flower with
Susie White
Scariest
Dog Costume: Louie the devil with
Heather Martin
Most
Original Dog Costume: Oakley the
cow and Gamble the horse with Priscilla Merkel
Best Dog
and Owner Costume: Heather Peeples
and Bentley who were dressed as
Raggedy Ann and Andy
We also want to recognize and thank the donors of our contest
participant gifts:
Star
Barks Pet Boutique
Maureen
Moore
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 Friend
in the Woods Pet Sitting
Olive
Garden at Regency
Petco at
Marsh Landing
Del
Monte Foods & First Coast No More Homeless Pets
Last but not least, we want to thank Jason Heuermann for being the
master 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 fun
and many people won some fabulous prizes including a grand prize "Spooky
St. Augustine Get-Away"!
Special thanks goes to:
Kimberly
Wichlan and Connie Smith, our event raffle coordinators
Holley
& Gayle Davis for printing the raffle tickets
Jason
Heuermann for being our raffle emcee
Special thanks goes out to the people and businesses who donated
prizes for the raffle.
We thank them all for their support of Paws Park!
Please thank the following businesses who contributed to the
raffle by giving them your patronage!
Alpha
Pet Care
Bob
Rankine
Casa Monica
Hotel, St. Augustine
Cloud K9
Mobile 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
Fur
People Pet Grooming
Fursace
Pet Designers
Get Back
Jack Pet Car Safety Net
Ghost
Tours of St. Augustine
Hair
Gallery
Jacksonville Zoo
Jason
Heuermann
Jay
Lubeck Jewelers
Joseph's
Pizza Italian Restaurant
Kate
Beck
Lisa Ussery
O.C.
White's Food & Spirits, St. Augustine
Pet
Supermarket
Petlagio
Ragtime
Tavern
Sea
Turtle Inn
Shorelines Gift Shop
Slider's
Seafood Grille
Steady
Steps Therapy
Sticky
Fingers
The Book
Mark
Tom
Trechel
Tour St. Augustine
Turtle
Island Market & Natural Foods
Wine
Warehouse
EVENT TABLE PARTICIPANTS
We would like to recognize and thank all the event table
participants (vendors, non-profits and rescue groups) that supported Paws Park
by participating in the event.
Special thanks to Norma Brizzi and Jakki Roberts, our event table
participant coordinators.
VENDORS
We hope you visited all the vendor tables to learn more about them
and we ask that you thank them for their support of Paws Park by giving them
your patronage in the future!
Agility
Pet Resort
Atlantic
East Pet Center
Crunch,
Maxx & Woody's Famous Pets
Dog
Watch of Jacksonville
Friendly
Pet Taxi
Get Back
Jack Pet Safety Nets
Keller
Williams Realty
Miss Daisy's
Delights
Ollie
Koala's Backyard
Pet
Butler
Pawsitive Solutions and Alpha Pet Care: these businesses were unable to attend the event,
but they made a donation to Paws Park!
Shure
Pet Pet Products
RESCUE GROUPS & NON-PROFITS
We hope that everyone visited the rescue group and non-profit
tables at the event to learn more about the wonderful things these
organizations are doing for animal welfare and for pets in our communities. Also,
please consider supporting and helping these organizations continue to do the
important work that they are doing.
Boxer
Aid & Rescue
Dog
Sports Clubs
First
Coast No More Homeless Pets
Jacksonville Humane Society
Pet
Rescue North
Shih Tzu
and Fur Baby Rescue
Tat-Too-A-Pet: This group
microchipped 6 dogs and tattoo'ed 3 dogs at the event!
PHOTOS
We sold 48 Halloween photos this year and all the photos were
great! Thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the photo area the day of
the event. We also want to recognize
the following people for their special contributions to the photo
area:
Suzanne
Rinebarger: photographer who took the great photos!
Kathy
and Carla Brycer: backdrop designers and donated some of the backdrop items
Kim
Williams: donated the hay
Courtney
George: donated some of the items for the backdrop
WATER
We would like to recognize and thank Jacksonville Coca-Cola of the
Florida Coca-Cola Bottling Company for their donation of bottle water for the
event!
SOUND SYSTEM
We want to recognize and thank John Tipton with the musical group
the Mosquitoes who provided the sound system and music for the event! The sound
system was great and we appreciate John volunteering his time to provide and
setup the sound system for our event!
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE BEACH
Last, but not least, we want to thank the City of Jacksonville
Beach Parks and Recreation Department for providing the tent, tables, chairs
and power. We also want to thank the city's special events department for their
help and for advertising the event on the city web site. Special thanks goes to:
Gary
Meadors
Marilyn
Matejcek
Roy
Paxson
Lorraine
Troendle
Mercede
Gardner
Most importantly, we want to thank the City of Jax Beach for
everything they have done to make Paws Park a reality and everything they
continue to do in support of the park. We are extremely thankful to the City of
Jax Beach for providing our community with such a great place to enjoy with our
dog friends and people friends!
Hope you all had a HAPPY and SAFE HALLOWEEN!