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December updates & newsletter

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:59:00 -0500

:) Hi, Members and friends of the CCAPL.

Here is the December Newsletter with updates and information on the CCAPL.

We have had a terrific year and this could not have been accomplished

without the generosity, support and hard work of our many members and the

ongoing public support! Thank you!

A new year is approaching quickly, and with full steam ahead, our officers

and board of directors and numerous members, are determined to make even

more progress in our goal of building an animal shelter on the land we have

purchased. Certain criteria and progress will take time, and these things

will be dealt with accordingly.

Please note: At the last Tractor Supply fund-raiser, Sally Blake donated her

50/50 winnings back to us. Thanks, Sally! The winner of the 50/50 at Kishman’s

membership drive/cookbook sales was Susan Little. She won $50.00.

Congratulations, Susan!

Cookbooks are still available at these locations: Carrollton: Sunset Beach

Tanning (across from McDonald’s), Dotty’s Craft Center & Archer’s

Restaurant - on the square of Carrollton, Welsh Horn - Main Street, and A

New Creation Beauty Salon on Germano Rd. Malvern: Deb’s Restaurant -

Waynesburg Rd. They are $10.00 each and make great gifts and are for a

worthy cause too! We have about 35 cookbooks left out of 200! Great job in

selling them and thanks to those who have purchase them.

As of December 31st, 2009, we have received a little over $97,000.00 since

we started January 17th, 2007. This is a phenomenal amount and we are so

blessed! Through generous donations, grants, memberships, "In Memory Of, or

In Honor Of" a person or pet, and our numerous fund-raising efforts, this

has been accomplished. Although we do not have this amount of money on hand

due to the fact we made a down payment on our land, paid for the architect

plans and the site plans, had the test holes dug, and expenses with that

operation, plus expenses to the government agencies to be a non-profit

organization, we have also been able to also keep expenses for fund-raising

activities at a minimum or none at all due to the generosity of members

which helped with expenses for each. One member has paid for our P.O. Box

rental for the coming year, and also pays for the hall rental each month at

the Friendship Center for our meetings. Our flyers, stationary, labels,

thank you notes, tax receipts, etc., are done by a member. We thank you so

much for all that you do and have done for us!

We welcome new members: Larry & Yvonne Reese, Sherie Hess, Bev Newell, James

Brawley, Larry Westfall, Roger Fessenmyer, Linda Horn, and Junior member,

Courtney Merrin and renewed member, Diana Dally CNP. Welcome aboard new &

renewed members and thanks for joining us and believing in us!

Your CCAPL membership dues are due after January 1st, 2010, so please send

them in as soon as possible. There is a 60 day grace period to do this to

still be considered a member and to receive the minutes and the newsletter

and updates. For those with Internet access, please use the membership

application on our website. For those with regular mail, a membership

application is included with this newsletter. Thank you for your continued

support. Even though you may not be able to attend meetings or help with

fund-raising activities, your membership is vital to us and will also help

us with grant funding!

Grants to be pursued: Helen Skinner and myself are working on different

grants to be sent in after the first of the new year. Some of these grants

will be a repeat of previously applied grants, and some will be new to us.

Any amount will certainly add to our income and help us get closer to our

goal.

Hettler Engineering is working on the driveway entrance. This proposed

driveway entrance will hopefully be at the north end of our property. We

have an easement right-of-way of the existing lane. ODOT requires the

entrance be enlarged to make it a two-way entrance for safety reasons.

I am honored and humbled you have elected me to be President of this

wonderful organization.

We have so many caring and animal-loving individuals in our organization and

we are so blessed! Let us keep focused on the job at hand, spreading the

word about or goal, and raising the money to build the animal shelter for

Carroll County to help save the lives of those wonderful creatures which

will come under our care. We do not propose to save them all, but will work

diligently and with a caring heart to save the ones we can.

Alert Notice: If you adopt a kitten, please have it tested for Feline

Leukemia before you take it home! This test can be done as early as 8 weeks

of age. This is a terrible disease and can be transmitted through saliva via

food, water, licking/grooming other cats, the litter box, and also through

the placenta of the mother. This happened to Fred and I, and I had to put

the 4 ½ month-old kitten down before even taking it home as the Feline

Leukemia was already advancing.

Our 2010 Officers and Directors are looking forward with great enthusiasm to

a new year. We will face many challenges and decisions regarding the CCAPL,

but we will work together and help each other for the greater good for this

organization. You will be kept informed and up-to-date on our progress.

Your input and ideas are always welcome and any suggestions will be taken

into consideration for the betterment of this organization. Patti Willoughby

has consented to continue being our "Public Relations Person." Thanks,

Patti!

Many thanks to our 2009 Officers and Directors for a job well-done this past

year and of course to the generosity and support of our many members.

Thanks everyone,

Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Eileen Rohrer, President

Benefit Dinner/Silent Auction and updates

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:46:00 -0500

Greetings, members, friends, and animal lovers,:)

What a great Benefit Dinner & Silent Auction we had on Nov. 7th. 2009. The meal was delicious. There were many bidders on over 50 items, and many tickets sold for the numerous door prizes, and 50/50 raffle tickets sold. The winner, Jim Rosenberger, donated his half back to us.

Dr. Judy Childers gave a very informative speech on spaying an neutering. The Carrollton Showstoppers had a great performance, and all our volunteers worked very hard on this from beginning to end to make this a huge event for us and we did it. Thanks to everyone!

Not only was it a learning experience, we will take all things into consideration for possilby another one in September of 2010 which could undoubtedly be bigger and better!

Some cookbook fund-raiser events are scheduled soon and in December, so check our "Coming Events" for more details.

Spread the word about our wonderful organization making so much progress towards building an animal shelter for Carroll County!

The site plans have been voted on and now it is up to Hettler Engineering to continue the intricate details to go further. As soon as Mike Hettler sends me the site plans via email, I'll put them on our website along with the shelter plans for you to see.

Dues will be due in January 2010 to join or rejoin us, and we are most grateful to all of you who have joined and re-newed and continue to support us. Tell others and get them to join also.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Best regards,

Eileen Rohrer

CCAPL President

Update on Site Plans, Cookbooks and Benefit Dinner

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:39:00 -0400

Hi, Animal-loving Members and friends, and guests, :)

Thanks for stopping by our website. Tell others about us!

We had two great days at Consumers National Bank in Carrollton on Friday and Saturday October 23 & 24 to sell our cookbooks, stands, and deliscious baked goods brought in by RMM. Thanks be to our volunteers for working their shifts and to Consumers (Bev Newell-new member too!), for allowing us to be there.

The cookbooks look great and those on the committee did a great job of putting it all together, getting it published, and now we have to sell them! Check out our "coming events" page as to where they can be purchased as of right now. We will be at Kishmans Superstore in Minerva on December 4, 5, & 6 during the daytime. Further details will be posted on our coming events and the events calendar.

The Benefit Dinner & Silent Auction is shaping up quite nicely. We could possibly have over 100 people attend. That would be awesome! We will have a better ticket sales count as soon as more send in their reservations by this Saturday. We have some really neat auction items and door prizes. Area businesses have been very kind and generous, as also individuals making cash contributions of sponsorship and we certainly thank them for it.

Hettler Engineering is coming to our November 3rd. meeting. He is bringing the site plans for our review and vote. Then the site plans are sent into the EPA and ODOT for approval. How exciting! Now we wait, concentrate on raising more money, pursing grant funding with increased vigor and enthusiasm, and keep spreading the word on our goals.

Thanks everyone for anything you do for us and help us in any way!

Eileen Rohrer, CCAPL President

Mud-Bog-Fest and more!

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:57:00 -0400

Hi, Animal Lovers and friends,

What a day yesterday at the Mug-Bog-Fest! I wasn't sure what to expect as I had never attended a "Mud-Bog" event before. Goodness! Those vehicles sure got muddy! Check out Terry & Helen Truex's picture on our "Events Album."

Terry grilled the hot dogs to perfection, Helen served them up, and I collected the money! We had a great day all around. Oh, and the lollipops sure sold to the kids!

Thanks to Jamie Rosenberger for bringing her "Batman" canopy, setting it up for us, and then returning to take it down. Thanks, Jamie!

We are still waiting for Hettler Engineering to finish up the site plans. There is a hold-up with the driveway plans as they are considering putting the entrance off of the access road at the north end of our property instead of off the State Route. Hopefully the plans will be finished by our November 3 meeting for presentation to the members. We have to choose a plan and then it is sent into the EPA and ODOT for approval.

In the meantime, we keep plugging along raising money, and talking to the general public on our goal of building a shelter on the land we purchased. We have had numerous people join in the last month through our fund-raising efforts.

We are gearing up for the Benefit Dinner/Silent Auction November 7th. We have been collecting lots of goodie items for the auction, door prizes and selling attendence tickets.

Please tell others about us and what we are trying to accomplish. Spread the word far and wide so we can increase our membership and gain more support!

We have such a fine array of volunteers and they do a great job for us!

Thanks everyone!

Eileen Rohrer, CCAPL President

Octoberfest & Mud Bog Fest events-September, 2009

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:56:00 -0400

Hi, Animal Lovers and friends,

Wow! We sure had two successful events on Sunday, September 20th. Both were going on at the same time! Thanks to all our dedicated volunteers and their hard work to handle both of these events for us!

The Octoberfest at Lake Mohawk's Pavilion in Malvern, Ohio was awesome. We had a very successful day and talked to many people about us, recruited members, sold pet products, and received generous donations.

The report from Joyce and Erin on the Mud Bog Fest on Canton Road (next to the property we purchased), was great too! We sold numerous hot dogs, received donations, and they, along with Terry and Helen, talked to many people at this event about our goal of raising money to build an animal shelter on our land.

We have more fund-raising actitives coming up, so check out "Coming Events" on our website for them.

We have so many dedicated and wonderful volunteers helping with so much. We can't achieve all we try to do without their help. What is so awesome, is the more "word about us" we get out there, the efforts are paying off as more members have joined us and this is truly inspirational!

Unti next time, keep us in your thought to succeed in our goal, and if you haven't joined us, please do so. It is only $15.00 per adult per year. (Although the membership is from January 1st, to December 31st, there is a grace period to rejoin for 2 or 3 months after the first of the year, so please consider being a member even for the remainder of this year. Membership growth helps us with grant-funding too!)

Thanks, everyone,

Eileen Rohrer, CCAPL President :)

August/September Fund-raisers and more updates

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:04:00 -0400

Hi, Animal Lovers, members, and friends!

Wow! What a great day we had yesterday at the Golden Age Retreat. The day was absolutely beautiful and we talked to numerous people, sold dog and cat items, and received donations. Thanks to Patti and Erin for coming out and working this event. We had fun too!

Next on the agenda is the auction at Albrecht's on September 11th. We will be doing the eat stand there and are looking forward to it! Then on Saturday it is "Dancing on the Bridge in Malvern, Ohio. That should be a grand day too!

We received notice from the Carroll County Foundation honoring our request for funding to help with expenses for the driveway entrance. The grant is for $750.00. We are very appreciative of their faith in us and what we are trying to accomplish...building an animal shelter on our property for Carroll County!

Keith Barnett, local singer/artist, graciously donated his "Good Will" proceeds to the CCAPL when he had his concert at the Scooter's Restaurant on Canton Rd. in Carrollton on August 29th. Thanks, Keith for your support and interest in our organization.

We have had many more people join and this is so exciting. More volunteers are signing up to help with fund-raisers too and that is awesome!

Gotta go for now. Check back soon for more updates and information on our website.

Have a great day and a wonderful fall!

Eileen Rohrer, CCAPL President

Dellroy Market & Dellroy Drive-In fund-raisers and more

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:56:00 -0400

Hi Animal lovers, member and friends, :)

Two very successful fund-raisers are now in the past. The August 1st, Dellroy Market event was awesome! Many thanks to Jerry Haynam for allowing us to be there. So many people gave donations, bought items we had for sale, and bought 50/50 tickets. The winner donated his half back to us!

Then on August 15th, Angela Townsend, owner of the Dellroy Drive-In graciously let us set up under the huge tree near the parking lot for another fund-raiser. We had great success with this one too! Haven't heard from the winner of the 50/50 yet to see if she wants the winnings or will donate them back to us. It was a hot day, but the large tree provided good shade. We sold all the baked goods, more cat and dog toys, and handed out a literature on our growing organization.

The photo shoot on Wednesday, July 12, was grand. Nancy Schaar from The Times-Reporter, Leigh Ann Rutledge of the Carrollton Free Press Standard, and Edward Hale from the Malvern/Minerva/Mr. Thrifty (also one of our members), came out to do the photo shoot on our land. Numerous members showed up for this exciting event for us! Thanks everyone. Some even brought their pooches too. That was great.

Thursday, July 13, members attended the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce "after hours" meeting. I gave a brief speech on our organization, members present helped with distributing literature and a survey on us, and we were given the proceeds of the 50/50 raffle sales! The winner, Lynn Bond, graciously gave us her half too! Awesome!

Friday around 1:30 p.m. one of our Directors, Joyce Ruble and myself, went to the WHBC radio station, 14.80 AM and 94.1 FM, on Market Ave. in Canton, Oh. Jeff Mears did a 15-minute radio interview on the CCAPL. I listened to it this morning. Flubbed around a little, gotta think and talk fast...but hopefully the presentation will generate some interest in our organization. Joyce did not want to talk so she let me do the talking. She's shy and was afraid she might flub up. Well, I did that for both of us!

We are moving along and still waiting for the "site plans" to be finished. They will go to the EPA and then after approval of the site plans, ODOT will tell us where the driveway has to be installed on the property. Things should shape up soon and we may be able to get the driveway in this year or possibly to it next spring. In the meantime, we will keep raising money towards expenses and obligations we have to meet.

Grant funding will be pursued as soon as we get all the intricate details needed regarding the shelter for grant writing.

That's all for now folks! Keep spreading the word about us and recruit members! Even if they are out-of-state, membership is vital to this organization's growth, and will also help us with grant writing!

Until next time,

Respectfully submitted by Eileen Rohrer, President CCAPL

CCAPL Fund-raisers and their success!

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:43:00 -0400

Hi, Everyone,

This past month, we have had two very successful fund-raisers. One was at Dollar General Market on Canton Rd. in Carrollton, Oh.. We sold hot dogs, cat and dog items we have purchased, emergency pet signs for windows and doors, handed out literature on our organization, showed picture of the land we purchased July, 1st, and encouraged people to join us. We almost made enough for our loan payment!

The second fund-raisers was at the Dellroy Market in Dellroy, Oh. We sold dog and cat items, homemade dog biscuits (made and donated by member Nadine F.), pet emergency signs, delicious home-made baked goods (made by member Rose Marie M.), had a 50/50 raffle ticket sales, took in generous donations, and talked to and gave out literature about us to many people! Wow! What a great day we had! Thanks to all the caring volunteers who worked their shifts at both of these fund-raising events. Our efforts paid off!

Chairperson, Amy, is currently getting the CCAPL cookbook details finalized and sent in to Morris Press. Hopefully within 30 days, we will get the proof back, go over it, and get it published. They will sell for $10.00. If anyone is interested in ordering one, let us know. I think the shipping for one cookbook is $2.00. More will be posted on our website soon. We thank all the people who submitted some really interesting and delicious recipes!

Hettler Engineering is still working on the "site plans." We have to choose one and then it is sent into the EPA for approval. They inturn will tell us where the driveway entrance will have to be placed in conjunction with the animal shelter, and then we wait for their approval. All these things take time, and in the meantime, we keep plugging along!

Take care, and check back for updates as we get them!

Best regards,

Eileen Rohrer, CCAPL President :)

The CCAPL has land!

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:13:00 -0400

Hi, All animal lovers and friends,

On July 1st, 2009, the purchase agreement was signed by the President for the 5.393 acres on Canton Rd. (Rt. 43 between Carrollton and Malvern, Ohio) and the co-signers signed the loan. (We thank them immensly for their graciousness in doing this.) We are on our way! How exciting!

We have come so far in such a short time since our inception in January 2007, by accomplishing one of our two goals and now the other part of our journey begins by raising funds to build the shelter upon the land we have purchased. We could not have reached this segment of our goals without the help from the general public, the "People for People Fund" grant, the Humane Society Endowment gift, and of course our wonderful members!

Many things have to be considered and also patience must be a virtue as the remaining steps to completion will be arduous, tedious, and more than likely frustrating at times but we will persever and attain our goal to build a wonderful shelter, designed to save lives, educated the public in numerous areas of pet care, and assist in helping so many wonderful creatures which will come under our care. We know there will be some we cannot save due to health or other reasons, but this will only be done on veterinarian recommendation, not euthanized for space!

Contact your friends, neighbors, relatives, and any animal lover you know and tell them about our organization! If they wish to make a contribution, they (and you) can use the convenient PayPal tab on our home page for this. All monetary gifts will be acknowledge.

With having to make monthly payments now for our loan, we are committed to holding numerous fund-raising events to cover the loan payments, and still contribute to the shelter fund. We need help, so if you are in the area of Carrollton, Ohio, please consider joining us and helping! You will be glad you did and we will be extremely appreciative!

We will keep you posted on this blog of more developments as they arise.

Thanks everyone!

Eileen Rohrer, President

"Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It"

Loan application signed for land!

Fri, 22 May 2009 06:09:00 -0400

On May 21, 2009, the loan application was signed for the purchase of the land on Rt. 43 (Canton Rd.) Carrollton. Now it will take about three weeks or more for processing. Once it is approved, then the co-signers (who wish to remain anonymous), will be officially signing for the loan. The CCAPL Board of Directors have approved myself as signing the purchase agreement on behalf of the CCAPL for the land. This is so exciting!

We are still waiting for the EPA report. I was told it could take as long as a month for approval so we must have patience.

Many members and friends will be walking with their animals in the Carrollton Memorial Day Parade on Monday May 25 at 10 a.m.

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend everyone!

Eileen Rohrer,

President