Date: July 31

Announcements:

Birthdays

Owen Lackenbauer July 29th

Neil Aitchison July 30th

Brad Enns July 30th

 

Anniversaries

Mac and Popy Graham  July 31st  20 years

John and Brenda Thompson Aug 1

Wayne and Susan Stevens Aug  1

 

Club Anniveraries

John Villemaire 27 years

Ian Roberston 24 years 

 

Guests: Victoria Baby and Jordan Baker

 

50/50: Pot- $186 Simon, Kyle, Laura NO WINNER!

 

Speaker: Jordan Baker – KW Humane Society 

-The Better Together Campaign

-Capital Campaign 

-KWHS almost 100 years of service 1927, in 1973 the Stratford HS started

-2012 they combined their services 13 municipalities

-40+ services, programs and activities

-70+ employees and 300+ volunteers

-Return home 700+ pets a year

-Education programs for youth, 19,000 kids in schools – free of charge, donations are appreciated 

-Vet outreach program – pets and people who are vulnerable members of the community 

-Keeping people and pets together – makes for a stronger community and encourages more empathy

-Better Together Campaign, not yet public 

-Plays a critical role in celebrating human and animal bond

-New outreach centre, giving families more time together to access low-cost and free services

-Don’t want to be a shelter that accepts animals, they want to be proactive in community to help solve socialist issues

-Why now? More animals need us

-More of a demand for their services

-Need a dedicated building for the outreach centre

-Pet Pantry – demand and need is increasing

-The result would be more animals being surrendered if they don’t have these programs

-Grow in parallel with the community which also increases the number of pets – don’t want to see it become a public health issue if families don’t have access to these services

-Currently running the pantry out of two shipping containers, outreach work is all add on things to do in their current space but they’ve reached capacity

-Numbers will triple in 2024 for people seeking help

-Decrease barriers to the services they provide if they have additional buildings 

-Additional programs are also growing in capacity (camps, vet programs)

-Campaign Impact has 5 pillars: mobile unit and veterinary outreach, pet pantry, animal hospital, education and community programs, physical capacity 

-Will be built beside their existing building

-8000 sqft, 2 storeys with a basement for storage

-Ground floor- permanent donation intake and pet pantry, education centre, mobile medical unit garage

-Second floor- office space, meeting rooms 

-Budget $6M campaign 

-Phase 1- new building $4.3M (ground breaking end of August), campaign admin $200K

-Phase 2- demo and renos 

-Phase 3- mobile unit

-What your support means: pet pantry (keeping families together), low barrier outreach, connection