I need your Testimonials !!!
It’s time for us to put together our application for the
Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign (3163) and the Combined Federal Campaign
(77674).
I need your help to QUALIFY !!! Last year so many of you responded, it was a slam dunk. WILL YOU HELP me this year?
When you responded from all across the globe, from every
state in the USA, YOU gave us our new and exciting NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL
recognition.
Please take a few minutes to answer these five questions -
with a few words - or a lengthy essay - in any way your heart directs. EVERYTHING YOU SAY is meaningful to us. If you have time for only one question or
one sentence or one phrase - that’s fine.
Every word counts to help us win a great designation.
Please let us and the world know how we’re doing, how we’re
helping and why you think Rikki’s Refuge is an important organization. Live Unlimited of Virginia is our corporate
name, Rikki’s Refuge is our 450 acre no-kill multi species sanctuary and
wildlife sanctuary; Wild and Feral is our feral cat and TNR education division.
Thank YOU for making Rikki’s Refuge, Wild and Feral, and
Life Unlimited of Virginia so successful in 2012 .... just you wait till you see what’s coming up in 2013 !!!! We are going to be even better than ever !!!
Please take a few minutes to answer these questions
and email back to me. Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org Your words here mean our financial success
in 2013 and beyond. Our financial
success means lives are saved and animals live happily ever after. Please SHARE your thoughts with me.
How did Rikki’s Refuge HELP YOU or someone you know this
year?
What does Rikki’s Refuge MEAN to you?
What is the MOST important thing Rikki’s Refuge did this
year?
May we use YOUR name?
Nick name or “anonymous” is ok if you prefer.
Where do YOU live?
There’s ONE thing we all LIKE
OK maybe TWO
....
YOU are number ONE
and NUMS is
number TWO
Thank you produce and pumpkin drivers, long distance
haulers, nums drivers and Angel Tree Elfs !!!!
All of us just love getting produce in .........
Large
or Small
WE eat it ALL
..... can we have fresh nums every day?
YES .... if only more volunteers would help ...
Thank you to Melissa
Felts, Alan Crandall, Mary Walker, Paul Erhard, Jon O’Connor, Sherry Eller for
doing the Fredericksburg / Spotsylvania runs.
Thank you Bill Duran for doing the Alexandria and Merrifield runs.
YOU can help us have
fresh nums every day, anywhere within a couple hours of Rikki’s - especially
Alexandria and Merrifield in Northern
Virginia and Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania
...... YOU can help pick up the
leftovers from the produce and bakery at stores that we have contracts with ...
and bring them out to the animals.
Let me know if you’d like to help Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Just ask our produce
haulers .... it’s the highlight of their day to feed the animals !!!
Here’s Doug sorting out
the day’s produce
he’s got to take off all
the plastic and metal and bags and ties .... and sort for the rabbits, the
guinea pigs, the cows, the horses and the pigs ..... Somebody loves every single bite .... you just have to know who.
Would YOU be winning to
volunteer one day a week to sort produce and hand it out to the rightful
owner? It’s up close and FUN work! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Kiki is always the first in line to get the bread
Pumpkins ....
if you doubt me check
that sign!!! This is what we still have
from the Halloween Pumpkin Runs. Good and
nutritious .... they’ll get some every
day till they run out.
All you pumpkin haulers
..... let me know if you can help us haul other nums during the year !!!
Angel Trees
Thank you Katarina
Galvin, thank you Angel Tree Elves, thank you merchants!! It’s been another fabulously successful
year. AND Angel Trees will run thru
January 1st ... so you’ve still got time to rush out and drop
something under one of our trees.
Here’s where you’ll find Rikki’s Angel Trees
Rabbit Trees
.... excuse me guys .... I asked for RABBIT TREES not cat
trees ......
So WHAT are Rabbit Trees?
You probably have one right there in your home you’d like to give up
right now !! The rabbits and guinea
pigs like to play around in the branches of your old Christmas Tree !!! They climb and they nibble and they
play. Instead of tossing it out -
please bring your Christmas Tree to Rikki’s Refuge on Saturday January 5th
during Donation Drop off from noon till 2 pm !!! All the little guys will really appreciate it !!
Let me know you’re coming Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
More Trees
From Katarina Galvin of the Angel Trees ..... please keep an eye out for any 6 ft - 7.5 ft
Christmas trees that are going on sale now after Christmas. The more trees we
get on sale now the more we'll set up next year for Angel Trees and the more
goodies we'll get. Only need 6 ft - 7.5 ft nothing smaller or bigger. Thank
you !!!! Let us know what you pick up
and when you can bring them out. Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Just LOOK at that Full Pantry !!!
This is what it looks like when we’re well stocked up and
supplied. It takes a huge amount of
food and supplies to keep Rikki’s Running.
Several bottles of bleach everyday, most of a bottle of laundry
detergent, bottles of dish soap. Just
imagine cleaning up for 1295 ... everyday .... and they don’t even wipe their
feet off before coming inside !!!
Thank you for making this possible thru your Angel Tree and
Christmas Day donations. Thank you Don
Smith and family for making it all neat and clean and organized !!!
Last Minute End of Year
We have a goal and need your help to get there. Time is running out on our $22,222.22 DOUBLE
YOUR DOLLAR donation challenge. Up to
$22,222.22 in donations will be matched by some very special and generous
donors. We want to do everything we did
in 2012 again in 2013 ... and have goals of doing even more and helping more
animals.
Would you help us meet that goal? What ever you can comfortably donate to help us, will be DOUBLED,
but only for a little longer. All
donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE.
Every penny short of the $22,222.22 challenge .... is like
two pennies the animals have lost ..
Please help today http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Double%20Your%20Donation
Read all about the challenge and see what Rikki’s was like
in the beginning, compare before and after pictures.
Rikki’s Refuge NEEDS YOUR support to operate !!! Thank you.
Plea for Pana
Our doc is on her way right now to volunteer some time and
take some supplies to the Speuter Clinic YOU helped us get running in Pana,
Guatemala way back in 2008! Did you
think it’d be going more and more successful every year ??? Or did you think it was a one time
effort? Well it’s only gotten better
and better with more and more vets in Guatemala learning quick speuter
surgeries to help the animals. The
clinic also offers vaccinations, parasite treatments and as much help as YOU
make possible.
If you’d like to donate a few bucks .. which go a long long
way in Pana .. please use this link and
comment that it’s for Pana. I’m sorry
but these donations do not qualify for doubling. Only funds specifically designated for Pana can be used for the
Speuter Clinic there. http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
Thank you for helping animals everywhere.
Christmas Tour
The Christmas Tour was fabulous !!! Thank you all who came out and volunteered
the week before getting things set up.
especially Kathy Doucette, Kim Doucette, Joe Callahan, Jan Chetnik,
Laurie Karnay and Katarina Galvin.
Thank you for all your had volunteer work on Christmas Day
too. Especially Jan Chetnik for
organizing the whole thing. Dennis Bane
for logging and putting away truck load after truck load of donations. Laurie Karnay (mom got to drive the Toyota
for handicap touring on your tour and she says you’re a fabulous tour guide),
Ken Licklighter and everyone else who gave tours --- so sorry, I was so busy
hugging necks I didn’t get to talk to everybody. Thank you Gina Licklighter for cleaning Rikki’s North during the
tour !!! That kitchen sparkles !!! Thank you all volunteers for helping with
registration, driving, and all the before, during and after work that goes into
the tour.
Thank you photographers Ken Licklighter, Lynette Lauer and
Wendy Ingalls, you got some great shots.
If anyone else got pictures, please send them along. I want to do a big poster on Christmas 2012
at Rikki’s Refuge. Thanks EVERYONE !!!
This is my and my GreatGrandPa and Timmy with our GrandPa
Thank you for even the smallest donation for my
Double
Challenge ....
You do know now ...
that ONE
DOLLAR will make EIGHT MEALS ....
WOW this is wonderful
We’re only about 1/3 of the way towards meeting our
challenge ....
please don’t let the animals lose any funding !!!
Thank you !!!
We love you so much !!!
Opie and Timmy
PS check out the new look on the
front page of the blog -- to the right --- see what’s new???
