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
Boy
Scout Troop #139
We sincerely thank Troop #139 for their continued support.
The Boy Scouts
will assist in monitoring the parking area please park in only the
designated area.
Hound
Boutique
Open to Browse & Shop
for you and your hounds
T-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, bedding, polar fleece coats,
Celebrating Greyhound Calendars ~Wall & Desk, jewelry, flags,
black & white photo, collars solid & designs.
And Much Much More!!!
Greyt
Book Sale
All books $1.00 each
If you have books to donate for the Book Sale please contact
cdyoung@mindspring.com
or drop them off at the kennel prior to May Open House.
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
Volunteer Opportunities Booth
Information,
education and sign up
"Hound Salon"
by Andreas Moser
Toe Nail Trimming/Cutting - $5.00/dog
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 6th Mountain Hounds, Gatlinburg, TN
June 3-6, 2010
Silent
Auction
Come often by the tables
to bid to bid often all proceeds benefit the hounds.
Winners announced at 2:30 p.m.
Grandma's Genius
by Jon & Chris Brasfield
Finger snapping, toe tapping, get your feet a-moving music
entertaining us throughout the day . C-D's available for purchase.
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. Contact
her in advance to set up
an appointment - no waiting line.
jean@animalconversations.com
or visit her website:
http://www.animalconversations.com/
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. Boy Scout Troop #139 will be on site to
direct you
in the correct parking areas.
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!
www.bookendsboutique.com
Hounsdstown - Chris Carpenter
Offers the finest in Martingale collars & leashes, as well as
various products for both dog and human alike!
Carl Doby
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 flannel & rain coats & 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
SuzieQ decals
Sweaters for Greyhounds.com
Handmade sweaters for hounds by Laura Bauer
website under construction: www.sweatersforgreyhounds.com
Scentsy Wickless Candles
Renee Edmonds, Independent Consultant
www.scentsy.com/reneeedmonds
Judy & Mike Shamp Winter
Park Florida
High quality art work that promotes Greyhounds as loving pets & great
athletes.
Artist: Elle Wilson, Kent Roberts, Carol Lynn Nesbitt, Linda Evans, David
French & Mary Waterloo Smith
Animal Conversations
Jean Ussery, Animal Communicator
www.animalconversations.com
No wait pre-arrange appointment, contact her direct
jean@animalconversations.com
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.
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.
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
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.
