Angel Trees 2011

Going great again this year, thank you Katarina Galvin!!!  We have trees up in many stores where you can pick an animal ornament and buy a present for one of us!!  Leave it under the tree and our volunteers are running around filling their sacks and bringing the goodies out to us at Rikki’s Refuge.

Grab some goodies and put it under one of our Tree!!!!

Fredericksburg / Spotsylvania

Giant Grocery Store

10346 Courthouse Road, Spotsylvania, Giant at Hilltop Square Shopping Center

Jan Chetnik, Vincent's Elf

Petco

5717 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg, Va 22407, Harrison Crossing

Melissa Felts, Vincent's Elf

360 Feed Supply

5037 Plank Road, Fredericksburg, Va 22407

Melissa Felts, Vincent's Elf

Tractor Supply of Fredericksburg

4178 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg, Va 22407

Melissa Felts, Vincent's Elf

Roxbury Farm and Garden

601 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, Va 22401

Katarina Galvin, Vincent's Elf

2300 Fall Hill Building

2300 Fall Hill Ave, Fredericksburg, Va 22401

Katarina Galvin, Vincent's Elf

Confederate Ridge Animal Hospital

2301 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Fredericksburg, Va 22401

Jan Chetnik, Vincent's Elf

Orange

La Rue de Beaute

243 E Church St, Orange Va

Theresa Spears, Vincent's Elf

Village Farm Feed & Garden Center

28284 Constitution Highway, Rhoadesville, Va 22542

Rene Luther, Vincent's Elf

Orange-Madison Co-Op

13323 James Madison Hwy, Orange, Va 22960

Rene Luther, Vincent's Elf

Wal-Mart Zion's Crossroads

164 Camp Creek Pkwy, Zion Crossroads, Va 22942

Rene Luther, Vincent's Elf

Culpeper

Tractor Supply of Culpeper

588 Culpeper Town Sq, Culpeper Va 22701

Robyn Schnellenberger, Vincent's Elf

Culpeper Animal Hospital

441 Aspen St, Culpeper, Va 22701

Mary Burns & Robyn Schnellenberger, Vincent's Elf

CFC Culpeper Farm & Home Center (aka Culpeper Co-Op)

15172 Brandy Rd, Culpeper Va   22701

Mary Burns, Vincent's Elf

Wal-Mart Supercenter Culpeper

801 James Madison Hwy, Culpeper Va 22701

Mary Burns, Vincent's Elf

Richmond

Richmond Southern States Co-op

8718 West Broad St, Richmond, Va

Dan Galvin, Vincent's Elf

Charlottesville

Pet Supplies Plus

1240 Seminole Trl, Charlottesville, Va 22901

Bonnie Kliamovich, Vincent's Elf

Northern Virginia

Contact volunteers to drop off donations

Fred, Annandale fred@z9a.com

Paul, Alexandria paulcandy214@verizon.net

Grab some goodies and put it under our Tree!!!!

AND after Christmas watch the sales - we need more trees for next year’s program - the best are the 6 and 7 foot pre lit fold up into a small box kind !!!!!    Please grab them for us!!!  Mariza has kindly saved room in a shed at her house for storage!!!

Next year - will you be a Vincent Elf?  Pick your favorite store, talk to the manager, get permission to set up a tree and then bring the goodies out to Rikki’s when the tree gets full!  It’s easy to be a Life Saver!!

Pet Pictures with Santa

 Pictures with Santa at Petsmart

Rikki’s is helping you to get pictures with Santa with your Critters - any kind - you bring ‘em - we photo ‘em!!

Petsmart in Central Park, Fredericksburg, VA, USA

Saturday and Sunday 12/17 and 12/18 11 am - 4 pm

Proceeds of these days with your photo with Santa benefit Rikki’s Refuge.  If we’re too far away - all PetSmarts are doing this - and it benefits an animal organization in your area - so get that photo of your doggie, kitty, parrot or boa!!!!

And special for you hoomans too !!!

Sorry no pets allowed to visit at Rikki's -- for their safety and ours.  

Our guard dogs are trained to keep others out cuz we have to worry about wildlife and roaming dogs harming our animals.

If, and please understand, this is a BIG IF, we can preserve the photo set we created for Vincent and Timmy's Christmas photos .....

On Sunday, December 18th, after the noon tour, at 2 pm, and again Christmas Day, from 11 am - 4 pm - you can get your photo with Vincent!!   Vincent says minimum $50 donation per person to get him in his Santa Suit!

 

NO you can't sit on St. Vince's lap and tell him your wishes for Christmas, but he can sit on your lap and you can get your photo taken for a $50 donation and you'll get one 8x10 glossy sent to you!!!!

Holiday Happenings .....

Exciting Adventures

Here’s what’s going on at Rikki’s Refuge and we sure hope to see YOU.

December 17^th Saturday - Noon - 2 pm, donation drop off, round up all the canned cat and dog food you can and stop by to drop it off.  Our docent had a job transfer, so I’m so sorry, but she can’t be available on Saturdays to meet and greet and show you around!  The staff can’t neglect their duties - which means feeding ME - so they can just help you with a quick unload.  But come back Sunday for a tour!

Would you like to help the animals, donate a few hours one or more Saturday’s a month, and be a Docent?  I’ll train you!!!  Be my Docent - Vincent@Rikkisrefuge.org

December 18^th Sunday - TOUR the Refuge at NOON, gates open at 11:30 am, tour lasts about 2 hours and it’s all outside, so be warm.  Admission cat and dog food - as much as you can carry.  Canned please, Purina is keeping us well stocked in dry right now!!!   Big huge thanks to MIKE WOOD who drive over the river and thru the woods and up and down mountains to bring us food from Purina’s Pennsylvania Packaging Plant.  Without Mike, we’d be hungry.

If we can preserve the photo set we created for Vincent and Timmy's Christmas photos till Christmas Day we'll have a special for you!!!


NO you can't sit on St. Vince's lap and tell him your wishes for Christmas, but he can sit on your lap and you can get your photo taken for a $50 donation and you'll get one 8x10 glossy sent to you!!!!

December 24^th Saturday - Noon - 2 pm, donation drop off, please be generous, we eat 30% more food in the winter time!!!   And we count on YOU!!

December 25^h Sunday - Enchanted Christmas Tour at NOON, gates open at 11:30 am, tour lasts about 2 hours and it’s all outside, so be warm.  During the tour you’ll get to help decorate our trees with nums and watch us pick our favorite off the trees.  Admission cat and dog food - as much as you can possibly haul in.  Canned please, we’re well stocked on dry.  We need bird seed, oranges, and fresh produce too.

If we can preserve the photo set we created for Vincent and Timmy's Christmas photos till Christmas Day we'll have a special for you!!!

NO you can't sit on St. Vince's lap and tell him your wishes for Christmas, but he can sit on your lap and you can get your photo taken for a $50 donation and you'll get one 8x10 glossy sent to you!!!!

I think I need a new ‘puter, mine seems broken, it says nums not real word !!!!

January 1^st Sunday - Opening the New Year at your favorite place will bring you good luck all year!!!   11 am Tour of the Refuge - note 11 am - not our usual noon - 11 am so we can squeeze in Nature Hike before it gets dark and cold.  Gates open at 10:30 am.  Tour at 11 am, yup, it’s all outside so dress warm warm warm.  Then at 1 pm you’ll head for the hills!!!!  Pristine Nature Hike thru the 367 acres of Rikki’s Refuge.  Good boots, waterproof and all dressed up for the weather.  Wear orange and red and bright colors so any evil poaching trespassing you know what’s don’t think you’re a deer!!!

I sure hope to see you this holiday season!  If you can’t make it, know that I’d be at your door step to wish you a wonderful Christmas if only mom would let me have a corporate jet -- but she says all the money has to go to taking care of animals, always!!!