HELPING ANIMALS AT OUR SANCTUARY AND AROUND THE WORLD!
RIKKI’S REFUGE IS A MULTI-SPECIES LIFE-CARE NO-KILL SANCTUARY
FOR THE MEDICALLY AND SOCIALLY CHALLENGED
SUPPORTED BY DONATIONS FROM KIND AND GENEROUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU !
and always remind them that
it’s Rikkis Refuge in VA in the USA and let them know that's it's easy, quick,
FREE and no apps or sign ups, peoples hate those apps that keep sending out
stuff AND that they can vote every day on every puter and phone they have
!!!
Office Angel’s are lining
up
Only two rooms left ... The File Room
and the Equipment
Room .....
assuming I
can get this sent out in the next hour !
I think it’s time to start our tradition ......
At Rikki’s we always do everything BIG .....
We don’t
celebrate 12 Days of Christmas .....
We
celebrate 28 Days !!!!!
You know the tune .... so sing along with me !!!!!Meeeeeoooooowwwwwww .........
On the First Day of Christmas, look what came to
Rikki’s,
a chukar in a cherry tree
Heee Heee Heee Laurie
Reminded me of a Funny Story
She came out to visit yesterday and bring good things for us
!!!Somebody had wrapped the yellow
rope around the gate.You see the gate
is two great big panels that come together and a chain goes round and the lock
goes on.Well there’s this big long
rope on there too .....Everybody
wonders why ... till the first time they’re trying to close the gate on a windy
day !!!!
When Laurie got inside and got her goodies delivered, she
said, gee you sure make this gate thing hard!After untying all that rope, miles and miles of it wrapped all around
and tied over and over again ....and
getting to lock open ... and getting thru ... I had the most awful time ...
running back and forth ... over and over ... trying to catch each piece of the
gate to get it locked !!!!
.... and Valerie said ... Oppps ... that rope is to HOLD the
gate still while you lock it up so you don’t gotta run all over !!!!
Way back in the old days, in the dark ages before me, Opie,
was borned, mom used to have to run back an forth and back and forth....she’d grab one side of the gate - each side
is 10 feet long - and fling it towards the center and then run for the other
side ....It’s pretty well balanced and
if it’s nice and clam it just stays there and you can lock it up .... but if
the wind blows ... especially with the big Rikki’s Refuge sign on it .....it blows really hard all the way open .....
I wish somebody had videotaped her funny dance ... run ...
fling ... turn ... run ... fling ... over and over till she was fast enough to
get it just right and could catch both sides at the same time !!!!!Heee heee hee
.... and so one day, starting to get a little smarter from
her association with very smart creatures ... namely cats .... she said Ah Ha
!!!!And she grabbed a leash out of the
truck and tied it to one side of the gate .... then she could pull it to the
middle ... and while still holding on ... grab the other side and lock up
!!!!Ah Ha the dawn of hooman
thinking had begun ....
..... but that leash on the gate made some another hooman
think too .... and one day mom came home and low and behold ... there was a
doggy clipped to the end of the leash !!!!!WOW was she ever shocked.Seems
kind of mean to just leave your doggy tied up on somebody’s gate ... but ...
well I guess they saw the leash .....
.....and that’s the
story of WHY there’s a big yellow rope on the gate today !!!!!
When you’re visiting if the wind is a blowing, just grab it
and hang on and it’ll help you close the gate !!!
I need some trained
doggies like this !!!
Wanna know how a little
act of kindness can GROW ?
Remember voting for Rikki’s Refuge in Toyota’s 100 Cars for
Good ?Did you really think your vote
would count?Did you really feel like
YOU could make a difference?
Well you did !!
By voting you joined a group of people who CARE.Who care about the lives of others.Care about making the world a better place
.... for everyone.
And together you WON!And Rikki’s Refuge won a new Toyota to help countless animals ... and
people ... over the years to come.
Ok, so you did good.BUT it didn’t stop there.GreatGrandPa was so impressed with YOU all and so impressed with the
good Toyota was doing, that when he needed a car, he bought a Toyota.Hoping to thank Toyota for their kindness to
100 Charities each year, hoping to encourage them to keep up their good
community outreach programs.
Ok , so he did good.BUT it didn’t stop there.GGP is
red green color blind.This is a very
common challenge faced by almost 10 % of our hooman population.10% !!!Just about everybody knows somebody who deals with this challenge
everyday.
To those of you with standard color perception, reds stand
out.Like traffic lights, stop signs,
numbers on the dash of your car ......To those without that perception, it all blends into the background
making some every day task really difficult.It’s a silent challenge.Nobody
knows what you’re dealing with unless you vocalize it.
So what’s this got to do with voting for Rikki’s???
GGP’s new car had a lot of red on the dash; red speedometer
needle, red LEDs for the fuel gauge, red odometer, ....Now stop and think, just think about driving
a car in which you had extreme difficulty seeing your speedometer, your fuel
gauge, ......Pretty scary, huh?Yeah, you can seek out a manufacturer and
model that doesn’t use red.That’s
pretty hard to do.Go out there and look
at cars.And not one single
manufacturer has an color challenge optional dash ....wow ....And nobody we talked to had ever altered on to be comfortable and easy
to read .... wow.
The guys at Extreme Performance in Palm City, Florida, USA
said WOW ... we CAN do that for you !!!!And they put their heads together and they experimented and they DID IT
!!!!They altered GGPs dash to make it
so much easier to read.When I thanked
them (yup, ME, Opie) on facebook, lots of people say it and said WOW HOW COOL
OF YOU !!!!And it really made them
think.
And you know what they thought?This is what Zach at Extreme Performance told me today.“You know, I never thought about it.We fix things for people for what they WANT
not what they NEED.I never thought
about doing things to help people with what they NEED.Just giving them the things they WANT.But how satisfying, knowing that we can give
them something they really NEED.We’re
going to take pictures of this car and share it, and let people know we’re here
to HELP them get what they NEED to make their lives easier.It feels so good to know we can offer something
that people really NEED.I wonder how
many other things we can do for folks?”
WOW ......can you
see the domino effect of YOUR vote for Rikki’s Refuge?When other custom shops see the
possibilities, they’ll want to help too.It’s a win win, business for them, help for others.When having your car customized for color
perception is routine ... it will spread to other areas of life .... and think
of the hundreds, the thousands, the millions that will have been helped to have
an easier life !!!
Is that totally AWESOME or WHAT ???You have so much power at your finger tips
... just a few clicks ... and poof ...YOU can change the world !!!!YOU really can, with the smallest act of KINDNESS !!!!Never, never stop sharing that extra little
bit you can do !!!!
and always remind them that
it’s Rikkis Refuge in VA in the USA and let them know that's it's easy, quick,
FREE and no apps or sign ups, peoples hate those apps that keep sending out
stuff AND that they can vote every day on every puter and phone they have
!!!
Christmas Auction a HUGE
success
Thank you all for participating, those who donated items,
those who bought items.YOU make the
good in the world happen !!!Thank you
!!!!
Lastly if you can help
with our
DOUBLE YOUR DONATION CHALLENGE
Please
do - DEADLINE Friday, November 30, at MIDNIGHT
DOUBLE YOUR DONATION
YOU HEARD ME RIGHT!!!!!!
IT’S BEEN a WHILE ........
AND THE CHALLENGE IS BACK !!!!!!
Have YOU heard the news?
For years,
our office workers have COMPLAINED of being over crowded
Finally,
we FOUND the solution
(photo
prior to moving to Rikki’s Refuge)
We’ve
worked and worked on this Office Expansion Program for MORE than a year
And the TO
DO LIST is still long
The
donations have STOPPED coming in
And now
we’re searching for OFFICE ANGELS
to help us
carry on our good works.
And a VERY SPECIAL
friend,
supporter, donor and adopter has offered up a
DOUBLE YOUR DONATION CHALLENGE
!!!!
Dollar for Dollar ....
every penny you donate ....
will be DOUBLED,
up to $7,500 and through
the end of NOVEMBER....
so HURRY and WATCH YOUR
MONEY GROW !!!
AND YOU get the bonus of being permanently MEMORIALIZED
!
REMEMBERED FOREVER ...
FOR YOUR KINDNESS !
WOW this is more like TRIPLE YOUR
DONATION !!!!
Join us in the dream of making the world a better place
One animal at
a time
Become
an OFFICE ANGEL
It’s easy, it fits any budget, and you can start TODAY !
The POSSIBILITIES are endless ....
BUT only FIVE of you can name a room!
After
yourself or in memory of a loved one!
ONE person can name the largest room, the Board Room, where
meetings will take place, big projects will be planned, educational materials
created .... and a few 9th Life kids, like Snoop,
will hang out to help.For a tax deductible donation of only
$2,118.09 this can be YOUR room forever !!!
YOUR name plate will be a permanent fixture in this room, 18” long and 5.5” high,
full color - include your favorite picture, inspirational quote, name
......YOU NAME IT, you get anything you want
!!!Full color photo quality.Need help putting it together?At no cost, our artists will help YOU with
the design.Here’s a quick rendering of
the POSSIBILITIES that await you !
Hurry, be the FIRST to claim the Board Room. SOLD !! Congratulations Martha Girdany !!!!! It's too late for you to buy the Board Room .... but you still have options, keep reading ....
Pick the medium room,
The Studio, where we’ll be set up to take great adoption
photos.And where a few 9th
Life-ers will hang out when the flash bulbs aren’t going off !!!For a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation of only $1,412.06 this
can be YOUR
forever room!!!Imagine the
POSSIBILITIES !!!Our artists will
assist you with your chosen design, 18” long and 5.5” high, full color - including your name, favorite picture, inspirational
quote ......
Supporting the Studio will give countless
animals that purrfect forever home, year after year after .....
Pick one of the THREE equal sized rooms to call your own
!
For only $706.04 you chose the name of one of these rooms.
YOUR name.
A loved one’s.
Your favorite companion,
cat, dog, horse, rabbit ....
Turn it into a permanent MEMORIAL.
The ideas are endless.Whatever YOU choose, will live on FOREVER
as your kind and generous donation saves lives every day.Your NAME PLATE will be 18” long and 5.5” high,
full photo quality color.Design it
just how YOU want it, or let our artists help you (for FREE) !
Pick the room you want to NAME !
Control Central --- SOLD to Mary Walker
Where Snickers will rule
from the top of HER desk !
sorry, you're too late to claim
Control Central
The File Room
Where all the important documents will be safely stored
in already donated (and virtually impossible to open
without opposable thumbs)sturdy
strong file cabinets.
And space for a few 9th Life-ers
who hate
living in a big room with lots of“friends” and
who
promise to never, ever think outside their box!
The possibilities are endless. And
REMEMBER, I promised
you something for every budget.
If the idea of your NAME
MEMORIALIZED FOREVER has you drooling ....
but your purse has you crying ....
I CAN HELP YOU !!!!
Name a CLOSET !!Two available for the very affordable rate of $250 -
complete with YOUR NAME PLATE in full color, 10” x 8” !!
Claim an EXTERIOR DOOR for
only $125, and you have 4 to choose from !Your name plate will be in full color, 7” x 5” !!
Or buy one of the 16
available WINDOWS for a kind donation of only $100 !Or one of the three INTERIOR DOORS for a generous donation of only $75
!!Your full color name plate will be
5” x 3.5”.
I’ve GIVEN you 30 OPPORTUNITIES,
something to fit MOST budgets ......
But I PROMISED you ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES ....
Look at what else I
HAVE FOR YOU !
Will
YOU be my OFFICE ANGEL ?
With ANY donation, from $1 to $1,000,000, YOUR NAME
will forever be
on a plaque
mounted on the outside of the OFFICE TRAILERS,
where you will be REMEMBERED every day !!!
It’s easy and simple.And if you “bought” a room or window or any
other part of the trailers - you ALSO get your name on the OFFICE ANGEL PLAQUE
!!!DOUBLE YOUR FAME !!!
WOW that’s a TWO for ONE
deal !!!
Here’s what your kind and
generous, tax deductible, donation gets for YOU.
OR GETS FOR YOUR BEST FRIEND !!!
Give the gift of MEMORIALIZING a friend for Christmas
!!
If you make your donation by MIDNIGHT on November 30, 2012,
our artists will work with you to ensure that your name plate or
block is
finished and delivered to you - or your friend - in electronic
format by
December 15th !!
Looking
exactly as it will on the side of the office trailer that you helped build!
This offer is good for all selections, except the name
list.READ ON for more details !!
Receive a beautiful space,
all YOUR OWN,
in bright, photo quality color.A photo,
you, your cat
or dog,
a loved one, or even your favorite Rikki’s photo, graphics, inspirational quote, memorial message to
a loved one, AND your inscription and name --- all laid out just the way you
want it.All that comes on every space
6” x 3” or larger.On 3” x 3” spaces
you receive your inscription and name.
Size
of YOUR spaceDonation (minimum)Includes
12” x 12”$5,000Photo and/or Graphic, wording,
inscription
and YOUR NAME as an Office Angel
12” x 6”$2,500all of the above
6” x 6”$1,000all of the above
6” x 3”$500all of the above
3” x 3”$250Inscription and YOUR NAME as an Office Angel
3” x 1.5”$100YOUR NAME as an Office Angel
Listing$1 or moreYOUR NAME, in a block list, as an
Office Angel
Hey,
you could even ADVERTISE your BUSINESS
here !!!
Just think, our volunteers will see your reminder EVERY
DAY FOREVER !!!
WOW that could be a quadruple
whammy!!!
SAVE LIVES !
DOUBLE YOUR DONATION !!
HAVE A ROOM NAMED AFTER YOU !!!
ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS !!!!
Trying to decide where
to put your HARD EARNED MONEY
and where you’d like to see it go?
Funds from this OFFICE ANGEL
campaign will be used to
expand, improve, and maintain our facilities,
beginning
with the completion of the Office Trailers and
getting
our Occupancy Permit !!!
We still need to install the
decking between the trailers, the stairs, the ramp and electricity ..... then
we’re ready for our FINAL INSPECTION and our long anticipated dream will be a
REALITY !!
You’re good at
that, you know !!
Turning our dreams into realities
!!
Thank
you, for always being there !!
Check out
this list and donate your favorite part !!!
Deck finishing parts:
The Entire Ramp$669.50
The Stairs$515.00
Bucket of Screws$56.77---
MOST for your money !
6” x 6” Support$11.97
Joists$9.13
Deck Board$8.95
Joist Hanger$0.98 --- Why not
buy a handful ?
We’ll need to run 300 feet of electrical
cable and that requires a ditch !!!
Buy a foot of
Trench$4.50
Wire$3.00
Don’t like making decisions?
Just make a tax deductible donation and let Vincent choose
what to buy !
Please help me help my friends at Rikki’s
Refuge.
Together we’ve built a dream.
Together we’ll watch that dream grow.
Together we ARE changing the world ....
ONE ANIMAL AT A TIME !!
Thank you for being MY
Office Angel !!!
DEADLINE FOR DOUBLING
YOUR DONATION - MIDNIGHT NOVEMBER 30, 2012
Call me if you’d like to put a donation on your CREDIT CARD
today !
540-854-0870 x5 and a safe and secure volunteer will call
you back for the card info details
YOU mean the world
to me and my friends at Rikki’s Refuge.
Thank you, and I love you,
for your support.
Forever yours,
Vincent D. Cat
THE FINE PRINT:
Reservations on Rooms, Windows, etc. as well as Doubling
Your Donation, are on a first donated, first received basis.The first $7,500 received BEFORE midnight
November 30, 2012 has been pledged to be doubled.Placement of blocks on the exterior plaque will be at the option
of our design artists, and layout may differ from the sample image shown.Names in the Block List will be listed in
the order your donation is received.I’m sorry, but I cannot apply this to past donations, so please don’t
beg me to !!!!
OFFICE ANGELS --- updated 11/25/12 1:08 pm
Laura Kovalik
Mary Walker
Deborah Paradis-Keith
Martha Girdany
