Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Office Angels



DOUBLE YOUR DONATION
       YOU HEARD ME RIGHT  !!!!!!

ITS 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 .....

SOLD !!    Congratulations Paul Erhard !!!!!    
     The Studio - in Memory of Catnip Candy .....
                              forever and ever   
                                          It's too late for you to buy the Studio .... 
                                                 but you still have options, keep reading ....


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!
claim The File Room it NOW: http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Office%20Angel
 Too Late !!!!   SOLD !!!
.....  to Cindy Wright in honor of two Walkers ........


The Equipment Room
            Where the necessary equipment can live
                        and no one will be permitted to attempt faxing hairballs,
                                    performing liquid experiments with the scanner
                                                or gacking on the keyboard !  
            A couple 9th Lifer-ers without jumping abilities
                        will have warm and fuzzy beds in here. 
            After all, the hoomans working need SOME companionship!


SOLD !!!  Congratulations 
                      Deb Forrest  !!


Any one of these rooms can be YOURS for just $706.04 !


BUT it doesn’t STOP here !!!

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 space             Donation (minimum)              Includes
12” x 12”                                   $5,000                                      Photo and/or Graphic, wording, inscription
                                                                                                      and YOUR NAME as an Office Angel
12” x 6”                                     $2,500                                      all of the above
6” x 6”                                       $1,000                                      all of the above
6” x 3”                                       $   500                                      all of the above
3” x 3”                                       $   250                                      Inscription and YOUR NAME as an Office Angel
3” x 1.5”                                    $   100                                      YOUR NAME as an Office Angel
Listing                                       $        1 or more                       YOUR 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

Mail a check or money order to:
Rikki’s Refuge
I’m an Office Angel
PO Box 1357
Orange VA 22960

On-Line go to our website:
Choose the drop down Office Angel option


THANK YOU for being an OFFICE ANGEL .....

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




Saturday, November 17, 2012

Good Morning Good News !!!! November 17, 2012


I am SO excited !
     It’s gonna be a terrific day !
          Do YOU know why ?

Cus I got FRIENDS like YOU !


First off .... Better do the important stuff and make the announcements ... then I tell you why it be so good today.  OK?

Gotz to vote! 
Way important to vote. 
You know why?

Cuz if you vote everyday on every computer, at home and at work and on your phone, every day thru Dec 16th .... then Rikki’s Refuge can win $1,000 and ....

Do YOU know what we do with $1,000?

We feed 4,000 meals !!  YES !!!  Now that’s a whole lot and it makes us animals real happy.

So please vote along with me NOW  ..

You is on your puter, right?


OK so in just a minute you’re gonna click on my pic,
but let me ‘xplain what to do when you get there ...
it’s real easy ....
            you’ll enter: Rikkis Refuge in VA in the USA
            Search, Vote, and enter the encrypted word
            NO apps, NO email, NO data collected, FREE
            spread the word to all your friends and colleagues
            HELP RIKKI’S WIN
and now here it is - click on the pic me ME voting and you do it too !!!
Now wasn’t that FUN and EASY?  And doesn’t it feel good knowing you HELPED the animals?




It’s CFC and CVC time !!!
That’s where if you work for the govment or the state, you can give thru payroll deductions.  Even 50 cents a week helps us animals !!!  So please think about joining the group who give thru CFC and CVC.

If you found us in the catalog last year, you might be thinking we’re not in there this year. 

But WE ARE !!! 

We’ve been promoted to a National/International Organization !!!
How cool is that?  So you’ll find us there.  WHAT?  How can RIKKI’s be INTERNATIONAL you might be thinking.  Well we help lots of folks all over the world.  Sometimes animals even come from the farthest away places.  Animals need help everywhere.  We help animals get out of shelters all over and into homes.  And almost all the time, it doesn’t cost anything but our time.  Our volunteers make it happen.  Working with shelters, pounds, other organizations.  Volunteers who drive animals to new homes. 

And we’ve help private individuals and small groups all over the world help animals.  Sometimes by answering emergency questions.  Sharing how we solved a certain problem.  And gee, we’ve solved LOTS of them !!!   Helping them to get a TNR program going, a new Speuter Clinic.  I mean there is so much work you can do to help.  And all it takes is dedicated volunteers all over the world helping and DOING SOMETHING !!!  That’s it !!

And so you’ll find us in that National/International section -- AND this means no matter where in the world you are, you can give to Rikki’s Refuge to help us help the Animals of Planet Earth thru CFC, CVC and United Way. 

You just need to know a couple of numbers.  For CVC, Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, our number is 3163.  And for CFC, Combined Federal Campaign, and United Way our number is 77674. 

Don’t forget you’ll see us listed as Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc, tax id 54-1911042, Rikki’s Refuge.  And ALL funds donated thru CFC and CVC directly support the animals of Rikki’s Refuge !!!

Way cool, huh?



Christmas Day Tour
We had a wonderful November 10th Tour and Nature Hike.  I think Big Foote was following us up the hill on the nature hike .... I hid under mom’s jacket, but I think she got some pics !!!!   WOW those feet is big and that be real scary when you’re a little guy like me.

Our next public event is CHRISTMAS DAY and we’ll have a tour with the animals at NOON.  It’s all outside so if you don’t gotz the fur you better getz the long undies !!! 

RSVP is required so call 540-854-0870 x3 or email mail@RikkisRefuge.org  We need RESERVATIONS well in advance cuz we gots to order more porta potties - not to worry our hard earned donations aren’t going to pay for that - the volunteers who give the tours are going to chip in for it. 

Let me know TODAY if you’re coming, please !

And remember to bring us NUMS for Christmas Pressies !!!!  OK?



VOLUNTEERS
Oh my gosh!!!  The pumpkin hauling volunteers did a spectacular job this year !!!  You should see the piles of pumpkins ALL OVER RIKKI’S REFUGE and all the smiles on all the happy faces of those crazy critters munching down on the Pumpkins. 

In a recent poll, 20 out of 22 species of animals at Rikki’s Refuge said they preferred PUMPKINS to FANCY FEAST.  Can you imagine that?  Crazy animals !!!! 

The really good news is that all those pumpkins will save a lot of the feed bill and that means more money for Fancy Feast !!!  YES !!!

Thank you Pumpkin Haulers and Pumpkin Coordinators - You did GOOD - and you brought more pumpkins to Rikki’s Refuge than in any year, ever before !!!

If you missed out on the fun this year, sign up NOW to let me know to include you next October when we start planning.  Just let me know you want to be a Pumpkin Picker mail@RikkisRefuge.org


GOOD CLEAN FUN
And warm too.  This time of year lots of folks want to help out but they just can’t bare - being like naked with no fur and all - working outside and scrubbing down litterboxes in the outside hose when it’s like 38 degrees ... so we have some warm and heartwarming jobs for good volunteers.

Wrap at Barnes and Noble -- take a two hour shift -- wrap the gifts folks have bought and watch the donations for Rikki’s Refuge add up !!!!   A day of good wrapping, can bring in enough money to feed the animals for a day. 

And YOU can make that happen !

We’ll be wrapping at the following Virginia, USA locations - let the coordinator for that area know if YOU can help.
Falls Church - Paul Erhard paulcandy214@verizon.net
Charlottesville - Ron Herfurth topcat@cstone.net
Richmond - Gussee Lamoree gussee47@hotmail.com

I’ll get exact locations and dates and times published for you soon.


ALSO in Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania in Virginia, USA we’ll be running
Santa Paws at PetSmart and you can help.  Each shift needs three people.  The one who signs folks up, the one who runs the camera - it’s easy and it’s all supplied by PetSmart, and the one is IS Santa Paws !!!    Yes the suit, and if you need it, the padding, is all supplied.  All you have to do is sit there and listen to OUR Christmas wishes. 

Can you help out for a few hours?  Let Melissa Felts dogslife24@comcast.net know.  We desperately need help on a couple shifts right away so we don’t have to cancel our dates. 

Daddy, if you be Santa one day, I come sit on your lap !!!



OFFICE ANGELS
How’d you like to see YOUR NAME, your picture, your memorial to a loved one, in bright photo quality print, hanging on a sign at Rikki’s Refuge forever and ever?

Sound cool?  Stay tuned - I’ll tell you more about that in a day or two.



CHRISTMAS AUCTION
We’ve got a way cool and exciting Christmas Auction going on right now.  Really neat hand made gifts and ornaments.  Lots off cool thing, from silly little stocking stuffers to very nice and valuable gifts. 

You can find just what YOU want for Christmas and all the GIFTS for your family and friends here.

Check it out !




EAGLE SCOUT
Soon to be Eagle Scout, Kyle Newton, is doing his project for Rikki’s Refuge !!!    He called and asked if he could come out and meet the animals to see what he could do for his Eagle Scout project.  He looked around, and he patted some animals, and he fed some animals and he said THIS IS COOL !!!!!   I think I’d like to build some houses.   Since it was hard for him to get his scouts out to Rikki’s to work - we ARE kind of remote - he built the houses at his home. 

And TODAY at NOON he’ll be delivering them !!!  Just LOOK !!!  They’re HUGE !!!  This is gonna be so good!!!  The free range goats are going to be so happy !!!   And the Cats and the Dogs ... 

WOW mom and Lena have bent lots of time putting their heads together working out plans for where to put things.  They have this cool idea about a little colony near the 9th Life Center .....

Well you’ll have to wait to see how that all works out till I can get pics to you tomorrow !!!! 

I can’t wait !!!


KEY CLUB
LeAnn Beardsley has been bringing her Key Club group from Osbourn Park High in Prince William Virginia out to volunteer at Rikki’s for YEARS !!!!   She also brings scout groups.  And often the younger kids in the families tag alone and learn all about volunteering.  LeAnn started teaching about reaching out and helping the community and the animals at Rikki’s Refuge not long after we started.  So that means we’ve watched a lot of these kids grow up !!! 

Last month a group of graduates came out with the current Key Club kids .... they were lovely young ladies and gentlemen, now in college and becoming wonderful compassionate loving members of society !!!

And they’ll be here today too !!!

Yippee !!!  Hope I can get lots of photos for you !!!




BORDER FENCING
Keeping the poachers off is a never ending project during hunting season.  We’ve now gotten a few donated wildlife cameras mounted in some of the places they love to come on to our property.  Paws crossed we catch them red handed!!!  Chased a batch off yesterday, zooming across our property, on their ATVs and with black ski masks on.  I think that’s illegal, isn’t it??  To be hunting and trespassing and wearing a mask so you can’t be identified???  Hmmmm  Hopes we get some of them in jail this year !!! 

We’ll be working on some of the border fencing today too.  Want to help protect Rikki’s property, the woods, the wildlife?  Sign up for patrols mail@RikkisRefuge.org



Seez you later,
     I love you, Opie

PS: Please pray for my GreatGrandPa, he’s in the hospital, looking better, but I wants him to come home and feelz real good.


YOU can make it happen!!  Click to help me feed everybody at Rikki’s Refuge dinner !!!!



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