Alert 2/6/07                 Regional Meeting Schedule – Sign Up!

 

Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare invites you to a meeting to discuss our 2007 legislative initiatives and strategy for next steps in 2008.

 

VVAW shepherded a number of bills in the General Assembly this session, including the elimination of gas chambers to kill Virginia’s excess pets.  In spite of a strong patron and 41 co-patrons, this bill and others of significant importance to animal advocates failed.  It is time for us to mobilize and strategize to improve the outcomes for Virginia’s homeless animals.  Please join us.

 

Below is a list of proposed regional VVAW meetings.

 

Each meeting will is scheduled for a Sunday and will run from 11 am until 1 pm.

 

We will try to schedule meetings on Saturdays in March in Wythe and Harrisonburg if there is sufficient interest, and will schedule a Saturday meeting in Roanoke if the Palm Sunday (4/1/07) date below is too much of a conflict.

 

Please let us know which you will attend.  (Specific locations will be announced closer to the meeting when head count is better known.)

 

We want you to get as many as possible to attend.  We need you to invite and bring along others not yet sufficiently focused on animal issues:

Board of Supervisors, county treasurers, county/city administrators

 

chambers of commerce, economic development groups, Ruritan

 

churches, school administrators, teacher organizations

 

individual teachers, animal control officers, judges, veterinarians

 

We need you to get these people to the meetings in large numbers.

 

Meeting materials are being developed now, and will soon be available for you to use in recruiting people to these meetings (details later).  You should distribute these materials to vet offices, pet supply stores, food stores, restaurants, book stores, shelters, business offices – in other words, places where those who love their pets will see the announcements. 

 

Please let us know if you will help in organizing any of the meetings.

 

Sunday, 2/18/07          Fredericksburg

 

Sunday, 2/25/07          Richmond

 

Sunday, 3/4/07            Charlottesville

 

Sunday, 3/11/07          Northern Virginia

 

Sunday, 3/18/07          Fauquier/Winchester/Clarke/Warren/Frederick

 

Sunday, 3/25/07          Tidewater

 

Sunday, 4/1/07            Roanoke

 

 

Thank you very much.  We need all of you.

 

Lillian Clancy and Don Marro