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Cinco de Mayo Open House
Purpose Statement

The purpose of this year’s Cinco de Mayo Open House is continuing development of community awareness by focusing on two major aspects of Greyhound Friends of North Carolina’s Mission Statement. This year’s highlights are:

Health and Welfare
Educating the Public

Our mission is to rescue retired, racing Greyhounds; provide for their health and welfare; educate the public about the availability and desirability of greyhounds as pets; and place them through adoption into loving homes.

Health and Welfare – On-going Veterinary Care -
Greyhound Friends has a very proactive approach in caring for the needs of each dog. The health and welfare of each dog comes first. The adoption fee does not cover the cost of each dogs care. The kennel also experiences normal non-adoption care for the dogs on a routine basis. Our Mission Statement charges GFNC with providing for the health care and welfare of each dog. This is an on-going process that will always be a part of our efforts and needed as long as there are greyhounds to rescue.

      Application for Exhibit/Booth 
Click on Link to view and print and mail to kennel address. 
                          
                

Come celebrate Spring with Greyt Friends!
Reunion of greyhound owners and prospective owners. 
You do not need to own a greyhound to attend or have fun.
Public Welcome - No Admission Fee

Marcia Gan, The Buzzard 100.3 FM  http://www.buzzardrocks.com and Rod Davis, WMAG  99.5 FM, On-air personalities will MC throughout the day

     Boy Scout Troop #139
will assist in monitoring the parking area  
    

Hound Boutique
Browse the "Hound Boutique" for that special gift(s) for you and your greyhound.

     

 Hound Cafe  
Our food has been donated by Wayne & Elaine Bunting, Burlington, N.C. 
Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Veggie Burgers, & condiments Complimented by soft drink, water, chips
and  a variety of "sweets" available at the GFNC Pet Therapy booth.
  Come hungry, we'll have Great food, good company, and all proceeds benefit the hounds!
 

 Adoption Inquiries and Kennel Tours
Sign up sheet will be locate outside the kennel lobby  entrance
  for the next available Adoption Counselor or volunteer


      
       Blessing of the Animals
1 P.M. by Rev. Susan Scott Downs
 

             Hosted by Mountain Hound Committee

      GFNC Charlotte Satellite - Games & Contest.
Pre-Registration of 5th Mountain Hounds, Gatlinburg, TN
Dr. Couto from Ohio State, a professor of
         hematology & oncology at Ohio State University Veterinary School
will be the guest speaker.

     

Hound Dash $2 a dash
 1st run @ 11:30a.m.  2nd run @ 2:30 p.m.
 Sport Speed gun used to detect greyhounds speed
 running down a designated run individually. Certificate awarded to each participate.
 It's truly for fun, only one runner at a time with owner present at all times.

     It's truly for fun, only one at a time with owner present at all times.

         
    Grandma's Genius  by Jon & Chris Brasfield
Finger snapping, toe tapping, get your feet a-moving music
entertaining us throughout  the day

 

 

Jean Ussery, Animal Conversations  
            Jean is an animal communicator with 10 years experience serving as a conversational link
between people and their animals. Although she connects via mental telepathy and normally uses
photographs, Jean loves the opportunity to work face-to-face with greyhounds at events like the
Open House. What have you always wanted to ask your dog? Find out in the vendor area,
where Jean will be offering on-the-spot Quick Questions.
Learn more at http://www.animalconversations.com/

Hound Salon - Andreas Moser

Toe Nail Trimming/Cutting  $5.00/dog

 

    

LOTS of VENDORS with unique gifts for all the pets in your life and the humans who love them. See Listing below.
      
   
  
As a consideration for the property owners, PLEASE park in the posted areas and NOT on grassy areas. 
 

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VENDOR LISTING
 

GFNC Volunteer Opportunities
 and
 GFNC sponsored License Plate



2 Hounds Design  
 Collar Guru  Collars, cool coats and tag necklaces  704-283-1547
http://www.2HoundsDesign.com

 

Greyhound Friends Pet Therapy - AND  Bake Sale
Pat Bleich & Friends - If you're a baker and would like to donate your
bake goods, bring them with you and hand them off
to the volunteers at the booth.
Located in the front yard next to the Hound Boutique. All proceeds benefit GFNC.

Lori Parsons - Bookends Boutique
Greyt new line of necklaces & some real eye popping dazzlers!

Houndstown - Chris Carpenter
Offers the finest in Martingale collars & leashes, as well as
various products for both dog and human alike!
 

John Read   http://www.crazycollars.com

Art By Billie
Pet portraits in oils, acrylics, graphite, and pen and ink.
http://www.artbybillie.net

Greyt Bacon Girls - Sharon Bacon
Designer coats winter & summer cool down
and new products to discover for hound & human

Greyhound Graphica, Inc.
http://www.greyhoundgraphica.com
Variety of products: Zuka Bowls, decals, pumper stickers, license plate
frames, quite spot silencers, beer stein, can coolers, playing cards
Bun gee Pup-ee Dog leads, collars and leashes & more

We Be Crafty
Barbara Brooks, Wilmington, NC

Greyhounds of Distinction
Alice Bossert, Wilmington, NC
Collars (Choke & Martingale), leashes, coats, flags, jewelry, tag collars
and greyhound motif totes.    www.greyhound1.com  
 
Animal Conversations
 Jean Ussery, Animal Communicator
www.animalconversations.com

Larocque Unique Leather Gifts
Annette Larocque-Moore  www.larocquechap.com
go to greyhound gifts page

   Bonnie Earnhardt Mesmer - Graphite Artist
 Born loving animals & art, Bonnie combines both passions by drawing portraits.
Working from photographs and with only pencil and paper, Bonnie renders her subjects with
amazing realism and incredible soulfulness in beautiful shades of gray.
Below is sampling of Bonnie's art pieces. 

       

All donated Silent Auction items will be used on an Online GFNC Auction to raise proceed to benefit the kennel and overhead expenses to run the kennel. 
Thank you in advance for any donations.

                                                              

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MEMORY PICTURES
Past Cinco de' Mayo
(IF YOU HAVE SOME PICTURES YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE SEND TO LINDA) Llandry@triad.rr.com

   
   

 

VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT - WE NEED YOU!!!!

If you'd like to get involved by volunteering at Open House contact Blanche Fedor  greytvolunteer@earthlink.net

Job duties will vary from set-up, decorating, food preparation, posting signs, balloons, product sells, music, registration area,
parking, doggie sitting, activity area, kennel tours, and many more important chores.
 
All are extremely important and will help in making the event run smoothly.

Aside from volunteers for the kennel for the weekend, here is a list:

VOLUNTEER NEEDS

- Volunteers needed for Saturday
- Friday during the day: Set up the Tents, signs, tables, parking areas and sound system
- Raffle & registration table
- Assist  in the Hound Cafe area
- Hound Dash - set up run and during the day will need 3 volunteers to run the Dash
- Sound system crew: music, announcements, master of ceremonies
- Hound Boutique
- After it's all over we need to break down tables,  stack chair and clean up etc.

 

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Committee Members

Denise Young  336.540-9191  cdyoung@mindspring.com
Jack & Shirley Skelton 336.595.4671  houndfolks1@earthlink.net
Ginny Gaskins 336.218.8406  vgaskin@triad.rr.com
Blanche Fedor  336.852.9739  greytvolunteer@earthlink.net
Bonnie Searles 336.643.7323 greytgreys2002@yahoo.com
Leah Cales 336.665.9855 Gr8NCGreys@triad.rr.com
Gail Partington  gail_partington@merck.com
Linda Landry  336.604.6204 llandry@triad.rr.com
Elaine Bunting  ebunting@triad.rr.com
Jean Colegrove  jcolegrove@triad.rr.com
Tracy Eyre  tracysgreys@hotmail.com

We welcome YOUR input.
Please feel free to contact any of us with any suggestions, vendors, Raffle Ticket suggestion or donation,
 Silent Auction donations,  ideas, volunteering, and speakers.