For immediate release
September 23rd 2010
Contact: Julia J. DiSieno
Executive Director
Animal Rescue Team, Inc
(805) 234-3810

Emcee & Auctioneer John Palminteri and Animal Rescue Team Executive Director Julia DiSieno announcing the auction winners.

Local Wildlife Fundraiser a Smash Hit

Animal Rescue Team, Inc. held their fourth annual Wildlife Fundraiser last Saturday (September 18th 2010).

[See the original flier for the Fundraiser]

The event location and part of the food was donated by Manny’s Mexican Restaurant on Mission Drive in Solvang.

Guest enjoyed a live auction hosted by John Palminteri and a spectacular slide show of hundreds of animals rescued and successfully rehabilitated this year. The slide show was created by Animal Rescue Team Advisory Boardmember Arthur White.

Guests enjoying the silent auction with the help of Animal Rescue Team mascot, Romulus, an abused wolf-hybrid rescued and successfully rehabilitated by Ms DiSieno

Notable guests supporting the event were Pedro Nava, 35th District State Assemblyman, his wife Susan Jordon, singer Jim Messina, actor and singer, John Corbett, actress Bo Derek, 24th congressional hopeful Tim Allison, and Animal Rescue Team Co-Founder Michael Behrman, M.D.

Emily Jensen keeping guests entertained with her guitar.

Sponsors for the event included Jordano’s Inc., Arthur Earl Winery, Teri Romero and Emily Jensen.

All monies raise at this event will go to support the important work done by the Animal Rescue Team in the Santa Ynez Valley, California.

For more information about Animal Rescue Team Inc., wildlife care,
or to volunteer, go to:

www.animalrescueteam.net

Injured wildlife in the Santa Ynez Valley should be reported to the Animal Rescue Team’s Hotline at (805) 896-1859.

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WOW, Pedro Nava and his dear wife Susan Jordon’s promotion for our event… I am speechless!     — Julia

The Ellen De Generes Show video referred
to above can be viewed here:

For more information about the event, see the post
ART Inc Invites You to Our 4th Annual Fundraiser!

Julia J. Di Sieno
Executive Director
Animal Rescue Team, inc.
805 896-1859
www.animalrescueteam.net

I ask you all to come to the BH Mountain Lion Foundation’s educational talk, held this Saturday in the Northern Hills — an area void of understanding and in desparate need of education regarding predators in general and cougars more specifically.

Tom Huhnerkoch DVM,RN
MOUNTAIN CATS TRUST (501c3)
605-584-1958
ccats@mato.com

An announcement from the Cougar Rewilding Foundation:

Certain PBS affiliate stations across the U.S. will begin airing LORDS OF NATURE in September 2010 — and over the next year. Broadcast dates are listed on the LordsOfNature.org website, organized by state.

Lords of Nature presents the engaging story of a science
now discovering the great carnivores as revitalizing forces
of nature, and a society now learning tolerance for the
beasts they had once banished.

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For more information, visit AnimalRescueTeam.net

Last month OreCat Director Jayne Miller attended a public meeting to discuss cougar hunting and safety issues in Oregon.  In her follow up journal entry, Jayne commented that hunters felt they owned the wildlife and “bashed folks living in Portland and Eugene as not having a right to vote on issues they believe to be their own.“  Jayne went on to say, “I liked the idea of getting more Oregonians involved with the cost of caring for their wilderness.  I have a good plan about that I hope to share with folks soon!  The hunters claimed they owned the wilderness, and, if I do recall, they owned our ranch every hunting season and we got alot of fences and gates torn down.  I never got to tell them that Oregon belongs to all of us and without any cougars, your children and children’s children will have a much less quality life.”

Jayne is now ready to reveal and promote the legislative plan she hinted at in her journal entry.  The project hopes to even the playing field and put an end to the idea that hunters are the only ones financially contributing to wildlife programs.

The draft of Oregon Bill LC 1202 reads:

For more information visit OreCat.org

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