Feed the Animals/title> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="keywords" content="Selah, Community,Royalty,"> <meta name="description" content="Selah Community Royalty Feed the Animals Spaghetti Dinner Event!"> <meta name="generator" content="Optima PageSpinner for Mac OS X"> </head> <body background="http://www.selahdays.org/picts/gifs/bg0047.gif" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#009900"> <div align="center"><font size="4" color="#FF0000" face="Comic Sans MS, Charcoal, Verdana, Geneva">The Selah Community Days Royalty Feed the Animals Spaghetti Dinner Fund Raiser!<br>Click on the below image to see the Picture's of the Event! </font></div><br> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.selahdays.org/album/index.html"><img src="http://www.selahdays.org/album/slides/FeedAnimal027.jpg" width="448" height="336" border="1" alt="image 27"></a></div><br> <a name="top">.</a> <p>The Humane Society of Central Washington and Yakima Valley Pet Rescue have reason to think the 2008 Miss Selah court is the cat's meow. Miss Selah Hannah Younie, First Princess Erica Poole and Second Princess Karem Escalante held a spaghetti feed to benefit the two organizations Saturday night.</p> <p>In exchange for a spaghetti dinner, attendees brought a donation of cash, pet food or other pet supplies to be divided between the Humane Society and Yakima Valley Pet Rescue. By the end of the night, Younie and her court collected $795 and 1,117 pounds of cat and dog food, along with some pet litter, toys and cleaning supplies.</p> <p>"I'm glad with how many donations we got," Poole said.</p> <p>"We're ecstatic, very," Younie said.</p> <p>Elaine Williams, the Humane Society's volunteer coordinator and educational outreach director, was excited to learn of the benefit.</p> <p>"This has come at a wonderful time for us," Williams said. "Summer has been really lean. I think it's just gas prices and the economy."</p> <p>While the Humane Society has been experiencing an unusual decrease in donations, the number of dogs in the shelter tops 100 on any given day with new arrivals daily, Williams said.</p> <p>Yakima Valley Pet Rescue does not yet have a facility, but instead utilizes volunteer "foster families" to care for animals awaiting adoption. Secretary Beth Swan said the organization receives 15 calls a day.</p> <p>"The Yakima Valley has a huge problem with stray, abandoned and abused animals," Swan said.</p> <p>Establishing a low-cost community spay and neuter clinic and educational program is part of Yakima Valley Pet Rescue's vision.</p> <p>"The more animals in the Valley that get fixed, the fewer problems we'll have," Swan said.</p> <p>Yakima Valley Pet Rescue primarily provides care for dogs and cats, but has also found homes for pot belly pigs, ducks and horses. The non-profit organization is always in need of more foster families.</p> <p>The decision to hold a fundraiser to benefit Yakima Valley Pet Rescue and the Humane Society stemmed from the Miss Selah court's love of animals. Younie has two dogs, Poole has a pit bull named Princess. Escalante has a dog and a rabbit.</p> <p>"We are hoping royalty can do more for the community," Escalante said.</p> <p>The Miss Selah court plans to do a community service project every month. Future projects include a food drive, toy drive, and something to benefit the troops.</p> <p><b>The above story is by Denise Keller from the Selah Independent Specializing in Selah Community News! </b> <a href="http://www.selahnews.com" onMouseOver="status='Visit The Selah Independent News Paper'; return true;" onMouseOut="status=''; return true;">www.selahnews.com</a></p> <p><div align="center"><b><a href="mailto:webmaster@selahdays.org"> E-MAIL WEBMASTER IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS!</a></b> </div></p> <p><div align="center"><a href="#top"><img src="/picts/gifs/totop.gif" border="0" height="19" width="103" alt="totop.gif"></a></div></p> <center> <img src=http://ctr.vendio.com/cgi-bin/honesty-counter.cgi?df=gen.3471891.00055><br> <font size=-1>Counters provided by <a href=http://app.vendio.com>Andale</a>.<font size="-2" color="#CCCC00">28</font><br></font> </center> <p><div align="center"><script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.selahdays.org/ajstemplate.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div></p> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-400461-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </body> </html>