GRANBY, Colo. — The clock is ticking for the Grand County Animal Shelter. We first instructed you final yr concerning the want for a brand new house to soak up the realm’s stray animals.
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Assist Grand County Animal Shelter as development pushes them out of their constructing
The county sanitation division owns the constructing the animal shelter presently occupies, and sanitation lastly wants the house after 25 years of lending it out. By way of donations, Grand County Pet Friends was capable of elevate sufficient cash to buy the land for a brand new shelter. Nonetheless now, the group wants assist to construct the shelter on that land.
Mary Ann Kerstiens, an animal management officer in Grand County and the treasurer of Pet Friends, and Diana Farabaugh, a volunteer with the Grand County Animal Shelter, gas the shelter’s mission to search out perpetually properties for deserted canines and cats.
“They don’t have a voice and we’re the voice for them,” Kerstiens stated.
To maintain caring for and advocating for therefore many animals, Kerstiens and Farbaugh are actually making an attempt to lift sufficient cash to construct a brand new constructing, but it surely’s by no means low-cost — particularly within the excessive nation.
Though they’ve raised roughly $800,000 for the venture, they nonetheless want about $1 million to finish it.
“Now we have a couple of quarter of an acre of property right here. So, we’ll have the entrance of the constructing right here after which our car parking zone will likely be proper right here,” Farabaugh stated as she walked us across the property in Granby.
The land sits proper subsequent to Kaibab Park and likewise sits on the gateway of Granby from the southeast, only a few blocks from downtown.
Kerstiens and Farbaugh perceive that there are lot of want locally and folks all in search of monetary help, however they hope you may think about giving to the furry associates they’re making an attempt to assist.
“Now we have an excellent group and everybody’s behind us,” Kerstiens stated. “It’s simply that — we’re needing the funds to make the dream of the entire county come to mild.”
“The animals that are available in, I do know they’re protected beneath our roof,” Farabaugh stated. “They usually stick with us till we are able to discover a dwelling for them.”
Grand Co. wants donations to construct new animal shelter on lately bought land
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