Here’s our latest E-News Bulletin, #25 April 2021. Hope you like it. It has been emailed to those on our email list. If you’d like to be added to the list, please write bhannable@gmail.com Thanks!
Here’s the month of April 2021 and the cover page from our 2021 Calendar. We thank all the kind supporters who submitted great photos of their beautiful pets, and also the stores who sold calendars for us. We hope that our friends will visit these stores often.
All of this support was especially important in 2021, since we were unable to hold a fundraiser as we normally do in the fall. THANK YOU!!
Hi Friends,
If you’d like to see the pets we have up for adoption, please click on the Petfinder and Adopt-a-Pet links on the right side of this website. If you wish to make a donation, please click on the Donate button.
We will be posting information on our next meeting once the details have been determined.
Here are the cover and month of March pages from our 2021 calendar. Please enjoy, and thank you so much for your support!
Stay safe and well!
All the Volunteers at FOBA
We have scheduled Monday, Feb. 15 at 7 PM for a Zoom FOBA meeting. The link and instructions are below.
Items on the agenda are: Financial report, rescue and adoption activity, discussion of how to add new members, fundraising during the pandemic, etc. Please let us know if you want to add any items.
We still have some 2021 calendars left and if anyone wants one (free) for yourself or to give to a friend, please let me know. They were $14 in the beginning; about mid-January we reduced the price to $7 each. We will donate some of the leftovers to the senior center shortly. They always seem to appreciate them.
Thanks, please stay warm and stay well,
Bonnie Hannable, Secretary, FOBA
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Best,
Nicola
Dear FOBA Family,
We thought we’d share our latest newsletter with you, so that you can see what we’ve been up to for the last few months.
We send our best wishes for the holidays and hope that all our friends are well and safe.
Thank you for your wonderful support.
From all the Volunteers at FOBA
Our 2021 calendars are now on sale in several Beverly stores. See list below. Please keep in mind for Christmas/holiday giving, they make great gifts for your animal-loving friends!
Most years, we have had the calendars available at our fall fundraiser, the Fur Ball, and then again at the First Baptist Church Holiday Fair in November, but sadly neither of those is possible this year because of the coronavirus. We had considered not doing a calendar this year, but there seemed to be a lot of interest and FOBA needs to raise funds to cover veterinary and other expenses involved in rescuing and placing homeless pets (and we love to show off your furry/feathered/other friends), so here we are!
Calendars are $14 each, and they may also be purchased on our website friendsofbeverlyanimals.org If you would like to purchase the 2021 FOBA Calendar online, simply click the “Donate” button, then enter $14 for each calendar desired, and under Special Instructions type in “Calendar.” Please add $4.00 for the first calendar and $0.75 for each additional calendar to cover postage and envelope. Questions, write bhannable@gmail.com or call 978-922-7190. It is possible to arrange a pick-up in Beverly and save the shipping charges, please email for more info.
Note that stores only accept cash or checks payable to FOBA.
Beverly Wild Bird & Pet Supply, 214 Rantoul Street, Beverly 978-927-2880 (closed Mondays)
Copper Dog Books, 272 Cabot Street, Beverly 978-969-3460
Dogs by Design & Cats, Too! 131 Dodge Street, Beverly 978-998-7620 (call for hours)
DogSpa, 45 Enon Street, Beverly 978-922-9227
Marika’s Restaurant, 199 Cabot Street, Beverly 978-927-1768 (call for hours)
Sally’s Hair Salon, 138 Dodge Street, Beverly 978-524-9990 (call for hours)
Many thanks to these kind Beverly merchants for again carrying our calendars! We hope you will do business with them often.
On behalf of our volunteers and the precious animals we help, thank you very much for your continued support of our work!
Here’s our latest E-News Bulletin. We hope that many of our friends will take time to read it.
We’re seeking your best pet photos again for our 2021 calendar, with a deadline for submissions of July 31st. Please check it out on page 7!!
Thank you for your support, and we hope you are all well and safe during these difficult (pandemic) times.
From All the Volunteers at FOBA
SPECIAL LETTER RELATED TO CORONAVIRUS
Dear Friends,
First, from all of the volunteers at FOBA, we want to send our best wishes and hope that you and your families are all well during these difficult days.
Next, we wanted to let you know that we are trying to decide whether or not to plan on printing a calendar for 2021, considering the coronavirus that so dramatically affects all of us and what we do. We have published a calendar each year for over a decade and we would like to continue, but at this time we cannot make any promises. We would, however, like to begin collecting your favorite pet photos and hold off on making a decision on the calendar until some time in July. Selling calendars is one way we raise money to help us continue our mission of rescuing and finding good homes for animals in need. Most of our sales are thru stores located in Beverly, and since we are not sure if they will be open or what the circumstances may be, for now we’ll just collect your photos…and perhaps use them on our Facebook page or website some time in the future if we decide not to print a calendar. But, on the assumption that we will print one, here are the guidelines.
PET PHOTOS WANTED!!
The Friends of Beverly Animals (FOBA) is seeking pet photos for our 2021 calendar (or other possible use should we decide not to do a calendar, as stated above). Please send us a favorite photo (LIMIT OF 3 PER PET, PLEASE!) of dogs, cats, hamsters, birds, any animal you care about, as long as it’s a good and interesting photo and was not used in our previous calendars.
Photos should be high quality (jpg format, at least 100 dpi or 4″x6″ in size), not blurry or dark, with no people (or people parts) in them. Please identify the animal(s) by name, and state the owner’s name. The deadline for submission is July 15, 2020. Send to bhannable@gmail.com and include the words “2021 calendar” in the email subject line. Receipt of your photos will be acknowledged, but please be patient because we receive lots of photos. If you don’t currently have a pet, but know someone who might like to have their animal friend in the calendar, kindly share this information.
For more information on our calendar, email bhannable@gmail.com or call 978-922-7190. For further information or to ask about adoptions, fostering, volunteering, etc., visit our Facebook pate, friendsofbeverlyanimals.org or call 978-927-4157.
We also have no way of knowing at this time (early May) whether or not we will be able to have our annual fundraiser scheduled for September. It all depends on what happens with social distancing, etc., by then. If it is to take place, we will get the word out in many ways.
Thank you for supporting the Friends of Beverly Animals and helping us save even more precious animals!
Bonnie Hannable
& All the Volunteers at FOBA
