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EMILY MOORE and her gift basket for homeless dogs.

Emily's POOCH Fundraiser

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD EMILY MOORE loves animals and plans to volunteer at the Oregon Zoo when she’s a teen and old enough. But that’s still several years in the future. This summer Emily decided she wanted to start helping animals sooner.

According to her mom, it was Emily’s idea to help an animal shelter. She found Project POOCH in the yellow pages and began her own fund raising project.

Emily gift card for the dogs.

Over the summer, she raised money by doing chores for her grandparents, running a lemonade stand, and saving her allowance.

This fall Emily and her sisters, Madeline and Megan, and friend, Natalie Kochanowski, delivered a gift basket of tennis balls, dog collars, leashes, dog bowls, dog shampoo and conditioner, milk bones, bacon treats and frisbees to the Project POOCH Community Outreach Office in Lake Oswego.

Emily's initiative is an example for us all. Her parents are rightly proud of their animal activist daughter!

Welcome Wagon picks POOCH

WELCOME WAGON of Lake Oswego and West Linn picked Project POOCH to be one of the three charities its Heart-to-Heart Group supports through volunteer activity.

In September, three volunteers, Melissa Schmitz, Jan Scripps and Peggy Hart prepared our fall newsletter for mailing in record time.

In October, nine volunteers spent a morning filing, organizing, and rearranging the Outreach Office: Jane Rickel, Linda Bretana, Kathy Kaiser, Beth Butrick, Margaret Seewerker, Norine Baillif, Phyllis Mott, Melissa Schmitz, Ande Yearsley, and Carol Houghton.

Welcome Wagon has a long tradition, here in Oregon and across the nation, of making newcomers feel at home and providing worthwhile social and philanthropic community activities for established residents.