A
Hope for Santa Rosa County FL, Inc. hosted their Paws for Spring event on
April 7, at the Springhill Suites lobby in Navarre Beach. The group gathered
to host a Sunday Brunch to discuss the newest updates to the A Hope project.
President Brandi Winkelman announced that she received an important
phone call from a special donor, who generously gifted the organization $100,000 to go
toward obtaining land to build their proposed spay and neuter clinic. With this donation,
the dream of this very much needed clinic will become more of a reality.
A Hope is a nonprofit organization, and is actively seeking to improve their chances
to receive government funded grants by obtaining land for a new building. The goal is
to locate a piece of property which is easily accessible, close to the interstate, or Avalon
Boulevard in Milton. These grants will aid in the cost of covering care for the animals the
clinic brings in, more surgeries, and growth in the future. There are an estimated 30,000
feral cats in Santa Rosa County alone, and A Hope receives over 300 calls a month, and
assists in transport for 60-80 cats every two weeks.
To begin, A Hope would like to be able to provide opportunities to local area civic
groups to come in and teach, and feature glass windows in the surgery areas, in order
to educate individuals on the spay and neuter processes. A Hope is striving to give
residents an opportunity to help control the feral cat population in Santa Rosa County
by providing a low-cost option to have community cats fixed early, before their impact
becomes problematic.
photos & story by
Kristina Wright
VIP Pensacola at Springhill Suites Lobby
Paws fr Spring
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Kelly & Reed Gahagan
Roy & Marcia Tugwell
Paige Cary, Gay Deese & Brandi Winkelman
Michelle Bohannon & Toni Wayne
Cindy Law & Debbie Lewis
Malgorzata Hoffman & Dave Mawhinney
Steve Barber & Cynthia Arnold
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