Place: Mobile Kitty Clinic Van in Dewey Beach 10:30 AM til 3 PM
Cost: $50 per 15 minute session for one dog or cat and $10 each for 2nd or 3rd pet for the same session. $10 of teh $50 is tax deductible as it is a donation to the Historic Lewes Cat Society, a 501c3 non profit organization. Reservations required. Please call Vivian Barry, 302-227-7000. The 2005 clinic hosted by the Society and Diane interviewd 24 families and their pets in the rain. They were very dry on the Van and we had a wonderful turnout again this year, and we hope to do it again next year.

Society receives grant from Lane McAlister Fund
The Society has received a $7000 grant from the Lane McAlister Fund via the Delaware Community Foundation. We were so excited to receive the funds which we will put to good use on the Kitty Clinic Mobile Van for the spay/neuter clinics. The Delaware Community Foundation manages charitable funds established by individuals, businesses and organizations and awards grants to nonprofit agencies that serve the needs of Delawareans. For further information about the Delaware Community Foundation, its grantmaking programs, planned giving services and other ways to support its mission, contact the Foundation at 302) 571-8004 or visit http://www.delcf.org. We also have received a grant for our low income spay/neuter program from Faithful Friends in Wilmington. All of this will help us continue our clinics on the Van. Since we started the Clinic at the farm in May 2004 and the inauguration of the Mobile Van in May 2005, we have spay/neutered and given rabies and distemper shots to 1168 cats and vaccinated 154 dogs. We have place and adopted 125 kittens and cats. We hope with this grant and the continued generosity of the public we will be able to continue our work in Sussex County.

Thank you all so much, the event was a great success.
The Roadhouse Restaurant was kind enough to offer us Monday, 14 November all day. Members of our Society were there to greet our guests from 6-8pm with friends from Kristin's Care and their children have donated a basket for us to raffle for an addition fundraiser. The basket will have goodies for pets and their families from Kristin's Care and the Society. We had a wonderful turn out and made $376 for the Society. We had over 50 people who came for dinner and many of our volunteers helped with the event along with Kristin and the employees of Kristin's Care. We will be selling raffle tickets for this basket at our clinics and we will do the drawing soon. Please come and see the basket at our clinic on 17 December and do a little last minute Christmas shopping. We hope you will come by for your last minute shopping and take a chance on the basket. Please call for additional information, Vivian 645-1575 or 228-4881

10% of what you spend at either place will be donated to the Society.
We registered with IHOP restaurant on Hwy One last week. So if you eat at the restaurant anytime and send us your receipt, we will forward the receipts to the main office and we will receive 10% of those receipts once a month. We also registered with the Oreck vaccum cleaner shop. They will note your purchase if you mention the Society when you purchase anything at the store near the Salvation Army, Hwy One. They will send a check for 10% of your purchase to the Society once a month. So please mention us if you shop at Oreck's.

Society Kittens and Dog will visit day care centers, schools and nursing homes
The Historic Lewes Cat Society will continue its Community Outreach Program for the Childrean & Elderly this winter by offering to bring our Society kittens and dog to visit at day care centers, schools and nursing homes in our area upon request. Our first visit took place at Kristin's Care on Hwy One in Lewes. Thelma and Louise our 8-week-old kittens visited with the children from 9-1030am. We all had a wonderful time with some of the children holding and playing with the kittens and asking all kinds of adoreable questions. We had an opportunity to teach the children about the value of having a loving creature as their companion in life. Some of the children had a companion at home and others did not. We believe the children came away with an appreciation of these loving creatures and how careful they must be with them. We only hope that they will remember as they get older and learn to appreciate these creatures in their lives. Our second visit was at Sussex Central High School for the English as a second Language and this time we also brought our rescue border collie - Abby. She had a wonderful time as did Thelma and Louise. The class loved them even though we could not communicate verbally, they held and loved the kittens and Abby watch in her Reindeer Antlers. Our next guest appearance will be at the Nassau Senior Center on the 24th of January. We are looking forward to sharing our loved ones with them. We presented Abby, Polly and Tux II to 12 seniors at the Nassau Senior Center today. We arrived about 1230 and the seniors started arriving at 1pm. We were very happy with the turnout and there interest in our Society and what we do at our clinics They were kind enough to stay with us till about 230pm when we had coffee and cookies. Several seniors donated funds to our clinic which we need desperately since we lost our low income grant from Faithful Friends because they have run out of money. We wish to thank the Staff of the Nassau Senior Center for inviting us and to the Seniors that came. Thank you for your support. We hope others in the Community will invite us to share our charges with them. Please call us, and check this site for more infomation of places we will be visiting.

Fundraiser Sale Table with GPA Delaware at Sharky's Grill Dewey
We will have tables set up at Sharky's Grill on Hwy One and Read Avenue on the ocean block with the Delaware Greyhound Adoption Chapter. We will be setup inside Sharky's if it rains Friday,Saturday and Sunday 10am-5 pm. We will sell greyhound sweats and hats, red hat society jewelery and hats, and a lot of cat items. The new Delaware GPA chapter will have their greys there that are up for adoption and items for sale. Donations are welcomrd to support our Mobile Clinic for low cost spay/neuter programs and to foster greys. All donations are tax deductible as we are both 501c3 non-profit organizations. All proceeds from our sales will be used for our clinics and the Greys. For additional information call Vivian on 302-645-1575.

New Low Income Program to Spay/Neuter Cats in Sussex County
The Historic Lewes Cat Society wishes to Thank FRPC again for their help. We are so pleased to announce another grant of $1200 from Friends for Responsible Pet Care for 2007. This grant will help us offer our low income clinics to 40 Sussex County families and rescuers under our $30/cat program. We know that these clinics are very popular so please reserve early by calling 645-1575 and identifying what low income program you are under. You will have to prepay the $30 along with sending us a copy of the program identification #. Please go to our Clinic's page and check the dates for upcoming clinics. Historic Lewes Cat Society (HLCS) announces the receipt of grant for $1000 grant from the Friends for Responsible Pet Care of Newark, a United Way Member. We wish to thank them publicly the their support of our low income spay/neuter program for cats which we are initiating today. This program will help those Sussex County citizens who are on either disability, food stamps or medicaid programs. HLCS is also offering this program to our Sussex County rescue groups who are trying to control the overpopulation of cats in the County. HLCS will offer this program for $30/cat male or femaale which will include their rabies and distemper shots. This program will continue until these funds are exhausted. HLCS has also requested help for this program from the Town of Lewes, Sussex County and our State legislators. We hope we will receive additional funds for this worthwhile program for our citizens and rescuers. If other individuals, businesses or organizations in Sussex County would like to contribute to this program, please send your contributions to Historic Lewes Cat Society, P.O.Box 353, Lewes, DE 19958. All contributions to our Society are tax deductible as we are a 501c3 non-profit organization,

Fundraiser for our Society & the new Delaware Greyhound Adoption Chapter
The Historic Lewes Cat Societya was rained out again for their yard sale. We hope that the items we collected will be used for another yard sale soon which willd be a fundraiser for the new Delaware Greyhound Adoption Chapter.

Grant for Sussex County Low Income residents and Rescuers
Our Society has again been notified on 7 February 2007 that our Counciman Lynn Rogers of the Sussex County Council has granted us $2000 to use for our low income/rescuers spay/neuter program. THIS GRANT WILL AGAIN ALLOW US TO DO 66 CATS. We thank Mr. Rogers for his concern for the low income families and dedicated rescuers in Sussex County to help their cats. Our Society was notifed on 3 July 2006 that Sussex County Councilman Lynn Rogers was granting us $2000 to use for Sussex County low income residents for their cats and Rescuers managing colonies. The grant will allow us to do 66 cats. We thank Councilman Rogers and we hope those that qualify for the grants will also thank him. The cost to spay/neuter your charges will be $30 until that grant is exhausted. We have also requested other grants and hope they will also be granted so that we can continue this program. Please call me on 227-7000 as you must preregister and prepay for the clinics and we are booking for July and August.

Funds to be granted for Low Income & Rescuers to our Clinics
Thank you all for helping us get HB425 passed and signed into law by Governor Minner. This grant will give funds to 501c3 organizations dealing with the spaying and neutering of animals. This will help us with our cats owned by low income Sussex County residents and Rescuers. The pilot program started in November 2007. 75% of the fund which now totals $330,000 will be allocated to low income residents of Delaware. Low income residents must contact Dept of Agriculture Spay Neuter Coordinator Holly Melzer to apply and receive an application. Those approved will be allowed to spay/neuter 3 animals per year. The cost will be $10 for an animal that has proof of a rabies shot or $20 for the operation and a rabies shot. Once you have be approved and paid Holly will give you the name of the participating Vet or clinic. 25% of the Fund wil be used for Abandoned cats and dogs and will be handled by the KSPCA. This Pilot Program will last till January and then be evaluated by a committee with representatives from the 3 counties and Dept of Agriculture, SPCAs and Vet Association. I will post if we are picked as a clinic. We presently have a low income program with a grant from Sussex County Councilman Lynn Rogers.

One Clinic for 20 Cats Costs $600
Our Society is presently looking for a "few good" businesses, organizations and individuals to sponsor a clinic under our "Adopt-a-Clinic" Program. The $600 will allow us to do a $30/$30 program where the low income and rescuer will only have to pay $30 per cat to have the animal spayed or neutered and it includes the rabies and distemper shots. We have sent out a press release and letter to the editor as well as many emails to businesses and organizations in our area. We have received three replies so far of funds and meds and to later do a clinic. We are very encouraged with the response. Since our Society is a 501c3 non profit organization, all those contributing to this program are tax deductible.

Enough vaccine for 10 spay/neuter clinics and 6 rabies/distemper clinics
We contacted our Schering-Plough Representative Bob Brodie and he was happy to help us with our clinics by sending us enough distemper vaccine to do all of these clinics. This along with other grants we hope to pay for additional clinics on the van for low income residents and rescuers in Sussex County.

White House Beach Low Income Feral Clinic
Our hearts are full when a citizen steps up and says I want to help. This Special citizen wants us to keep her name a secret but we have to thank here sincerely and the cats and kittens thank here as well as the community of White House Beach. We trapped 12 females and 6 males who have been spayed and neutered and given their distemper and rabies shots. We also rescued 3 beautiful kittens which we are socializing and will have up for adoption at our next rabies adoption clinic on 16 September from 10-1pm at Wash & Wag. Please check our clinic page for further details. We will continue to trap at White House Beach as there are several cats and kittens left. If you wish to help, please contact us, Vivian 227-7000, as we always need young and old alike to trap and foster for us

Sussex County Dedicated Rescuers Receive Funds
Spay, USA contacted our Society in December and offered us the opportunity to have 3 rescuers that work with us to receive a 50/50 grant which would allow them $250 per rescuer to do 8 cats on our Kitty Clinic Van. We had a special clinic for them on 16 December and will continue in January 2007. Thank you Spay,USA

$30/$30 Program using this Grant for 8 cats
The Grant will allow us to spay/neuter 8 more low income/rescuer cats under our $30/$30 program on the Kitty Clinic Van. Thank you the Greater Lewes Foundation.

RESCUER ALICE HENDRY GRANT
Rescuer Alice Hendry of the Historic Lewes Cat Society has given the Society a grant for $2000 which will allow 66 cats to be spayed/neutered by the Rescuers of Sussex County. Ms. Hendry has been a rescuer and animal activists for years and when she lived in Milton she worked with Stella Oaks to control the overpoplulation of cats and kittens in that area. Ms. Hendry is a dedicated rescuer, volunteer and activist for animal rights in Delaware and across the nation. We are so fortunate to have her on our team at the Historic Lewes Cat Society. Thank you so much Alice for this grant and for all you do in the name of god's creatures.

Grant for Sussex County Low Income residents and Rescuers
Our Society has again been granted $2000 in November 2007 by Councilman L ynn Rogers of the Sussex County Council. The grant will permit us to do 3 additional clinics in 2008 for low income rsidents and rescuers in Sussex under our $30/$30 program. Low income residents of Sussex County may apply for the program if they are under Medicaid, food stamps or disablity for 2 cats per clinic. Rescuers in the county will be able to do 2 cats per clinic We will be able to do a total of 66 cats under this grant. We hope other businesses or organizations will help us by "adopting-a-clinic", for $600 per clinic. Please call us at 645-1575 for furter details. Our Society is a 501c3 non-profit organization and all donations are tax deductible.

Spring Dewey Greyhound Conference Fundraisers
The Historic Lewes Cat Society has to cancel this fundaiser due to lack of interest and reservations for 11 April 2008 : 10am to 6pm Pet Psychic appointments for pets and sale table to be held at Lifesaving Station at Dagsworthy Ave and the ocean. We will still have our sales table on 11 - 13 April: Sales tables at Sharky's Grill from 9am to 4pm at Read Ave & Hwy 1 at the ocean. The table will hold sweats. tees. caps and jewelry for cat, greyhound and red hat lovers. On Sunday, 13 April 2008 from 2-4pm we will have a Sussex County Animal Alliance meeting at the Dewey Beach Lifesaving Station on Dagsworthy Ave & the Ocean. Our Speakers will be Anne McCann of Emergency Evacuation of Animals, Anne Cavanaugh on Delaware SPCA changes, and Holly Melzer, Dept Agriculture Spay/Neuter Rabies Fund Coordinator. Please come.

All Day donation to the Historic Lewes Cat Society
The Historic Lewes Cat Society will receive 10% from all sales at the Roadhouse Restaurant on 15 May. We would like to ask all rescuers and friends to come and spend the evening with us. We would also like to ask our members and volunteers to come to help us greet those that will be coming to the restaurant for us from 6-8pm. Thank you for all the work you have done for our Society because without you we could not do our work. Vivian & Bob Barry Chairman & Treasurer Historic Lewes Cat Society

Footlites, Inc. to hold Music festival for our Society & Milton Catnippers
Footlites, Inc. theatre company has graciously offered to do a fundraiser at the Milton Theatre on 6 September 2008. They will perform a music show which will be announced later along with the cost. The group is well known in our area and especially in Milton. Stay tu€ned for an update or call me on 645-1575.

Vouchers Available beginning 2 June 2008
Historic Lewes Cat Society will participate in the Spay/Neuter Fund low income and feral rescuer vouchers now being offered. We are very happy to be one of the organizations choosen to participate in the disbursing vouchers for this fund. We will be holding a clinic on 2 & 9 June and two each both for the rest of 2008. Please call us if you wish to participate with your pet, and we will give you additional information and you can also get an application for the vouchers at our Rabies/Adoption clinic on 21 June 2008 from 10-1pm at Wash & Wag behind Jiffy Lube at Midway on Hwy One.