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UPCOMING
EVENTS
Public is Welcome!
Meetings
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008: Join us for our monthly meeting at the Traverse District
Library at 7 p.m., 610 Woodmere, Traverse
City Michigan. For more
information, call 231-922-6083
Voice Mail (courtesy The Front
Office).
Monthly Meetings:
If you love animals, join us at
our meetings on the second Wednesday
of each month from 7-9 p.m. at the
Traverse District Library, 610
Woodmere, Traverse City Michigan. You will find us upstairs in the TCTV2 area.
Please let
us know about any prospective
members so we can send them our
membership packet.
EVENTS
2008
FOR ANIMALS OFFICERS
President: Michele Lonoconus
Vice President: Julie Collins
Secretary/Treasurer: Michele Wolf
2007
Activities
For Animals Meat Out Display
March 2007 at the
Traverse Area District Library
* Leafleted the March of Dimes Walk in Traverse City in May. The March of Dimes subjects animals to cruel and pointless experiments in the name of "science".
* Participated in three Friday Nite Lives in downtown Traverse City. Members of FA had a display table, face and hair painting, kids activities and showed animal rights DVDs. One member dressed up as a frog and was a hit with the kids!
* Members attended the HSUS Lobby 101 Lecture at the TC Library in August.
* Two FA members visited Farm Sanctuary in August.
* Our annual vegan potluck was held in October at the Traverse District Library. The film "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" was shown. We had a good turnout and time. Of course the food was outstanding!
* In November, FA put one large ad in the Northern Express for Fur Free Friday.
* Participated in Downtown TC's Shop Your Community Day receiving approximately $350 in donations.
* FA members wrote several letters to editors throughout the year about local and state issues.
* FA members tabled at PetSafe Rescue's Bark in the Park in June.
* FA adopted a turkey called "Luna" at Farm Sanctuary for the Thanksgiving holiday.
* Contributed toward vet costs.
16
YEARS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Our 16 years of accomplishments include:
* Our first real challenge and most gratifying victory was defeating the County plan for "pound release" (see article below).
* WE HAVE ACTIVELY PROTESTED
Elephant rides at the Cherry Festival and local circuses; state bear hunting legislation; dissection in schools; Mesick pheasant shoot; extended coyote hunting season; use by menopausal women of the cruel horse urine drug Premarin" with two large mailings to local physicians requesting they prescribe synthetic substitutes; inadequate sentencing for animal abuse by local courts; lack of recognition of cats by proposing cat licensing to authorities and much more!!
* Funded charitable spaying/neutering for 44 cats and 35 dogs.
* Donated over 312 books and 1 DVD to 46 schools and public libraries. Students may now prepare reports on all aspects of animal nature, abuse, exploitation, and learn about topics little understood by the general public.
* Protested wearing of fur with three Fur Free marches; continued picketing and placement of anti fur ads in local media.
* Participation in 14 years of the Traverse City Annual Earth Day All Species Parade, worked with the Committee and maintained an Animal Rights Information booth with animal advocate petitions.
* Participation in five years (2001-2006) of Friday Nite Live's in August. Set up an information booth, offered free vegan samples and showed animal rights videos.
* Participated and set up a display booth for two years at the Dance for Democracy.
* Attended countless City Commission meetings regarding the Clinch Park Zoo. The City Commission finally listened to the people and closed the zoo in the Fall of 2006.
* Held several showings of the "Witness and Peaceable Kingdom" to the public at the Traverse District Library.
* Encourage compassionate lifestyles. Our October monthly meeting is a vegan/vegetarian potluck with a guest speaker. We have also obtained a vegetarian menu choice for patients at Munson Medical Center.
Traverse City Record Eagle
June 20, 1990 Page 1A
Plan to sell unwanted dogs for research is dropped.
By DIANE CONNORS Record Eagle Staff Writer
TRAVERSE CITY - Animal rights activists quashed a proposal by Grand Traverse County Commissioner Joseph Muha to sell unclaimed dogs from the county pound for medical research. About 25 representatives from the animal rights group For Animals, the Cherryland Humane Society, the Grand Traverse Kennel Club and Cedar Wildlife Rescue turned out for a county human resources meeting Tuesday to protest the selling of pound animals for research. The four-member committee, which includes Muha, decided not to pursue the issue. "Just because they are going to die anyway, doesn't mean a dog deserves more suffering," Chris Anderlik, a For Animals founder, told the committee. Anderlik said dogs that were used to being pets must suffer rough handling, long rides to labs, cramped quarters with other animals in cages and physically and psychologically painful tests. In addition, people who take animals to pounds or humane societies believe the animals will be adopted or killed in quick, humane ways, she said. Muha said he floated the idea because he'd read about other counties selling animals and thought the sales might offset the approximately $100,000 county pound budget, which includes $200 monthly disposal costs.
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