Tues, November 29th 7 p.m. Elgin Mall Community Room – mark it on your calendars. It’s the STDOA final meeting of 2011 and time for planning. This fall, we joined with other animal welfare groups to form the Elgin Animal Coalition to better care for pets and unwanted or injured animals. The Coalition is comprised [...]
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It was with much sorrow that we learned of the passing of a lovely woman – our friend and founder of STDOA Luanne Demers. Luanne died of cancer, too young, this past weekend. Those of us on the executive of the STDOA met Luanne three years ago when she began bringing her dogs, Lab crosses [...]
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This review is in honour of the great athelete Hickstead. The Olympic Show Jumping gold and silver medalist horse died during competition last Sunday, Nov. 6th in Verona, Italy. He and his riding partner Eric Lamaze knew well the way of horses and of horse and rider. To Eric and all connected to Hickstead, condolences [...]
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