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Humane Society Still Needs Volunteers to Complete Project
Tonight, an update on the Humane Society of Bay County. The shelter serves as a home for displaced dogs and cats and is now being upgraded. But the shelter is faced with some roadblocks in reaching its goal. In this week’s Problem Solver report you will learn more about what is needed and how you can help.
The Humane Society of Bay County is located at 1600 Bay Avenue behind the Panama City Police Department just off 15th street. Recently, the center underwent some extreme makeover. Shelter officials say about sixty volunteers turned out to do major landscaping, painting and general cleanup. All in an effort to make a better temporary home for 200 plus animals. But even with all of that work, the executive director says there are still a lot of loose ends that need to be dealt with.
Executive Director Mary Sanger says, “it is going to take us a couple of months for us to accomplish everything I want to do. I am trying to build a garden of hope in front with flowers, trees make it very inviting, peaceful when you come in here. Instead of the dog kennel in the front, you are going to see a beautiful garden area. And the painting...it will take months to do...got to prime everything first.” Sanger also says the shelter is looking for any age person to volunteer, “I do get a lot teens and high schoolers. I welcome everyone to do it young or old...I have a job for them.”
Sanger says she is optimistic about the shelter’s future, “I am very optimistic...a great board to support...we want the same for these animals. We are doing really well...we are always going to financially struggle from month to month but we are better now than we were four months ago. And that’s something the board and I are very proud of.”
On the new coat of paint at the shelter, that is turning out to be a chore. Two weeks ago, the new latex paint was put on oil-based unknowingly and therefore, the new paint is peeling. So now, there is a lot of priming that needs to be done.
To learn more about the Humane Society of Bay County and how you can help, just click http://www.adoptme.org/
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