The Queenie Foundation, Inc. invites you to our 13th annual (and CT’s second) International Homeless Animals’ Day on Saturday, August 16, 2008 from 4 to 8 pm, at the East Hartford Town Green.

The purpose of our International Homeless Animals’ Day event is to bring the public to the advocacy community to get it involved.

Please go to www.isaronline.org for more information on International Society for Animals Rights, the international coordinator.

The Event: All advocacy organizations are invited to set up their table starting at 3 pm; the public is invited to attend, free, beginning at 4 pm. Registration for tax-exempt organizations is: by July 31: $25, in August: $30. Invite your volunteers, family, friends, co-workers and neighbors; leashed companion animals are always welcome. We also encourage you to post this event on your website and list it in your newsletter.

Schedule:
Meet ‘n Greet: 4 - 7 pm
Interfaith Blessing of the Animals: 6:30
Presentation: 7 - 8, which includes a candlelight remembrance at the conclusion.

Our theme is Creating Compassionate Children; we invite you to bring your children and teens. Information will be available on what they can do to take action for animals. Our children are our greatest resource and with the right coaching and support can become animals' greatest advocates. Heidi O'Brien, Director of Outreach, Humane Society Youth, a division of The Humane Society of the United States is our guest speaker. Since 1973, Humane Society Youth has worked to educate young people about kindness and respect for all animals and their natural habitats, activate youth in efforts to protect animals, and provide teaching materials, professional development, and other support to teachers and humane educators.  

Please RSVP to queeniefound@hotmail.com or 860.649.4488 if you plan to have a table. We will provide you with our mailing address for your registration fee. This is an event to inform the public about the tragedy of animal overpopulation, specifically dogs and cats, and that spay/neuter is the solution, however, it can apply to any species, such as rabbits, horses, farm animals and wildlife. We invite you to wear your organization T-shirt, display your banner, put out your donation jar and fundraisers, bring your literature and photos of your adoptable animals, sign people up on your mailing list, make appointments with prospective adopters and invite the public to volunteer with your organization. This is not an adoption event. If you are planning to attend with some of the animals in your system or personal animals, please make sure that they are sterilized and current on vaccinations. No organization will be allowed to participate with unsterilized animals.

We look forward to meeting everyone who did not attend last year and seeing all of you again who did. It is my aspiration, as it is every year, that International Homeless Animals’ Day will be a thing of the past in the very near future; we can’t do that without everyone participating and informing the public that spay/neuter stops the killing.

Directions to the East Hartford Community Cultural Center (EHCCC) and East Hartford Town Green, 50 Chapman Place, East Hartford

When Traveling From:

I-84 East: Take the Governor Street Exit (#56). At the end, take a right onto Governor Street. Go to the end and take a left onto Main Street. At the third traffic light (look for Dunkin Donuts), take a left onto Chapman Street. The EHCCC is at the end (on Chapman Place).

I-84 West: Take the Governor Street Exit (#56). At the end, take a right onto Governor Street. Go to the end and take a left onto Main Street. At the third traffic light (look for Dunkin Donuts), take a left onto Chapman Street. The EHCCC is at the end (on Chapman Place).

Rte 2 West: Take Pitkin Street Exit (#3). At the end, take a right onto Pitkin Street. At the end, take a left onto Main Street. At the seventh traffic light (look for Dunkin Donuts), take a left onto Chapman Street. The EHCCC is at the end (on Chapman Place).

I-91 South: When approaching the Hartford area, watch for East Hartford Exit. It is a left hand exit, so stay in the left lane. The exit is an extremely sharp loop! At the end of the exit ramp, enter onto I-84 on the Bulkley Bridge. Stay in the right lane. Take the Connecticut Boulevard Exit. Stay to the left going onto Connecticut Boulevard. Go to the end. At the light, take a left onto Main Street. At the fourth traffic light (look for Dunkin Donuts), take a left onto Chapman Street. The EHCCC is at the end (on Chapman Place).

I-91 North: When approaching the Hartford area, watch for Route 5 & 15 (Exit 29-Charter Oak Bridge). Go to Exit 90 (Route 5 North-Main Street Exit). At the end, take a left onto Main Street. Go up Main Street for nine lights. (Watch for Dunkin Donuts on right). Across from Dunkin Donuts is Chapman Street. The EHCCC is at the end (on Chapman Place).

Route 5 South: Drive south from South Windsor on Route 5 (John Fitch Boulevard). When it enters East Hartford, it becomes Ellington Road, and after the third traffic light it becomes Main Street, East Hartford. After going under the railroad overpass, watch for Triple A Diner on the right. Chapman Street is the third street on the right (look for Dunkin Donuts on left), after passing the diner. The EHCCC is at the end (on Chapman Place).