Posted
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Thanks to the Sunset Fred Meyer
On Tuesday, the homeless animals in Washington County were Lottery winners.
Earlier this year, the Sunset Fred Meyer store in Hillsboro issued a winning lottery ticket; stores receive a payment from the Oregon Lottery when they have winners. The Sunset Fred Meyer donated $26,000 to the Bonnie L. Hays Small Animal Shelter of Washington County.
"We got the wonderful call from the Sunset Fred Meyer store manager Brad Robbins, telling us he had a surprise for us," says County Animal Services Manager Deborah Wood. "It's not every day that you get a call and someone tells you that you've pretty much won the Lottery."
Robbins handed the check to Wood at a ceremony Tuesday at the store. Wood was accompanied at the ceremony by Billey, a Jack Russell Terrier mix looking for a home.
The donation will go to the shelter's Aurora Fund for medical expenses for neglected and abused animals. "One hundred percent of the money in the fund goes directly to the care of the animals," says Wood. The fund has been used in recent months for veterinary bills for two neglected horses that were confiscated because of severe neglect. "This very generous donation will allow us to take care of dozens of animals that have had bad things happen to them. It will help us make animals well again," says Wood.