Doylestown Dog Park

Thank you so much to everyone who came our 3rd annual Santa Paws fundraiser! Our first year we had 2 events and raised $1200, last year we had 1 event and raised $1,000. This year, we had 75 families with 90 dogs and raised $1,582. We sold 7 bricks! Greg Hayes (dog daddy to the super adorable Hailey and Rowdy pictured left), a wonderful longtime dog park supporter, told us that his company, Concept 360 Exhibits, would match what we raised this year! So this year we raised over $3,000!!! Thank you Concept 360 Exhibits! (If anyone is looking for a company to make your trade show exhibit, contact them and tell them the Dog Park sent you!)

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who worked so hard organizing Santa Paws! It’s a very long day, but worth it to see so many cute dogs and how happy their families are with their pictures! We’d especially like to thank:

Dr. Mantell of Doylestown Animal Medical Clinic for being such a great Santa and for donating our printer and printing supplies.

Dalissa and Jeff Reeder of Doghouse Photographers and Jeff Reeder Photography for donating their time and talents. They are a great local mom and pop business and we hope you will consider using them for your dog, family or event photography.

Victoria Schade of Life on the Leash for hosting the over 75 families and their 90 dogs at Life on the Leash.

We loved the raffle items from Thompson Toyota, Pugs and Kisses Pet Care, Life on the Leash, the Phillies and the ad donated by dtown magazine!

Thanks again to all the volunteers who brought and bought scene supplies and worked so hard yesterday!

Thank you to everyone who attended for your patience! We had a printer problem for about an hour and there are 12 people who don’t have prints, but we will work on getting them to you this week and we’ll be in touch via email (and check our facebook for details).

In the meantime, everyone’s pictures (ALL 900 of them!) are on the Doghouse Photographers facebook page divided into alphabetically ordered albums. Feel free to use these images freely for your holiday cards etc. If you would like any photoshopped, professional, enlarged, high resolution etc copies, please contact Doghouse Photographers for information and pricing at 267-421-3855 or info@doghousephotographers.com .

Here are all the albums for you in alphabetical order by dog’s first name:

A to D: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212107985536059.52599.158787847534740&type=3

E to K: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212340238846167.52652.158787847534740&type=3

L and M: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212357978844393.52654.158787847534740&type=3

N to Q: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212444795502378.52668.158787847534740&type=3

R and S: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212458858834305.52672.158787847534740&type=3

T to Z: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212483352165189.52676.158787847534740&type=3

If you had more than one dog, check under both names because they might not be in alpha order.

Also, check out this great article and pictures from Doylestown Patch: http://doylestown.patch.com/articles/santa-paws-event#photo-8673220

Thanks again everyone! We’ll keep you posted here and on our Dog Park Facebook Page and Twitter Page about construction. See you at the park this spring!!

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving! We are so grateful for our dogs and also for each of you who are making the Doylestown Dog Park pawsible!

SANTA PAWS: We hope you will join us this weekend at Life on the Leash in Doylestown for our 3rd annual Santa Paws and Winter Wonderland Photos. This year we are so excited to have professional pet photographers, Doghouse Photographers, donating their time and talent to take the pictures! Special thanks to Doylestown Animal Medical Clinic for donating our printer and supplies and also to Dr. Dale Mantell for being our Santa this year! Also, check out the Dec issue of dtown mag to see the awesome ad they donated!

Santa Paws Details:

• Saturday, Dec 10 from 11am to 5pm at Life on the Leash (42 E State St in Doylestown Borough, near the County Theater).

• RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/190998110979274/  or to Life on the Leash at 267- 247-5567. Walk ins are welcome too.

• Make sure your dogs are on a SHORT leash (no flexi’s please!), are well behaved, vaccinated and not aggressive to other dogs or people.

• Anyone who decides to buy a Brick or Paver this Saturday will receive FREE pictures.

• The pictures are $10 for one scene or $15 for both scenes and you will receive a printed copy there and will have access to the digital versions as well.

• It’s sad that we have to say this, but, there’s always one person every year that needs to hear this message: animal abuse of any kind will not be tolerated. Do not bring your dog on a choke chain and give him/her corrections or yell at him/her to try to get them to pose for the picture!

MONTHLY MEETING: Our monthly planning meeting tomorrow will be at a volunteer’s home at 7pm. We’ll mostly be working on Santa Paws if you would like to volunteer. Email us back here for the address. Details are here: http://www.facebook.com/events/307471799273461/

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: As I’m sure you heard, we received unanimous approval from the Doylestown Township Board of Supervisors to finally break ground on the dog park!

While we have raised the funds to build, we will continue to accept your tax deductible Brick, Paver and Dog Park Partner donations that will be put toward maintenance, any unexpected costs that come up during building and agility equipment and other improvements not in the initial budget. We still have some wonderful naming opportunities to honor your pet or your family or to promote your business.

We are still working on the operating/relationship agreement between the Friends of Doylestown Dog Park and the Township Parks and Rec department which hopefully should all be agreed upon this month as well. We also have to meet with the County Commissioners to get their final approval this month since it is County land that is leased to the Township. We hope to have a groundbreaking ceremony early next year and be open by Spring of 2012, if not sooner (all construction is weather dependent…). We will start the registration sign ups hopefully in January so stay tuned for details….

Thank you again for your incredible support and for making the dog park a reality!

Wishing you and yours a peaceful holiday season,

–
Friends of Doylestown Dog Park

For information on upcoming events and news, please check us on online
at: www.doylestowndogpark.com
www.facebook.com/DoylestownDogPark
http://twitter.com/#!/dtowndogpark

To make a donation, please go to: http://doylestowndogpark.com/donate/
Thank you for your support!

Doylestown dogs celebrating the good news! Photo by Doghouse Photographers

Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard for the past 2 years and 8 months to make this possible! Tonight we received approval from the Doylestown Township Board of Supervisors to begin building our dog park at Turk 3! We can hear the dogs barking with joy!  Thank you so much to everyone who has donated and supported us along the way! Stay tuned for more news, but here’s a bit now:

- We’ll post the updated plan soon so you can see it here.

- We’ll be planning a groundbreaking ceremony soon, probably right after Thanksgiving so stay tuned for details.

- We need your help to name our construction dog mascot who will be giving us construction updates. Please go to our Facebook page and cast your vote: http://www.facebook.com/questions/10150397306928680/ 

- While we have reached our fundraising goal, we will still accept tax deductible donations for the park. There are still lots of great naming opportunities left if you’d like to honor your family or pet or promote your business. We haven’t yet budgeted for agility equipment so we could put additional gifts towards that and for more trees too.

- The Board of Supervisors were very impressed at the show of community support, the fact that we have raised all the money to start building and maintain the park, and all of our hard work. They unanimously approved us to begin building.

- We and the Board of Supervisors are working through the maintenance agreement and that should be finalized soon, but we can still build in the meantime.

- Maintenance of the park will be funded by annual registration fees. We estimate that it will be about $40 per year, but we’ll keep you posted once we know for sure. We will be rolling out the registration process soon.

- A Dog Park Advisory Board that is separate from the Friends of Doylestown Dog Park will be formed under the Township Parks and Rec dept. We’ll keep you posted on that if you would like to volunteer for it.

- We’ll keep you posted as we learn more!

Thank you so much for your support and for making the dog park a reality! As you know, no taxpayer dollars are funding the creation or maintenance of the dog park and this has been a 100% volunteer effort.

We could not be happier or more proud of our community for coming together to create this amazing community park! We hope to see you there soon!

Just a quick reminder that our presentation for final approval to build to the

Maizy and Patches can't wait to play at Doylestown Dog Park!

Doylestown Township Board of Supervisors is this Tuesday, Nov 15th at 7pm at the Township Admin office at 425 Wells Rd. We hope you can join us to see our final design and budget and show your support. Feel free to RSVP here on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193868340691923

We also hope you will join us Dec 10 at Life on the Leash for Santa Paws! The incredible Doghouse Photographers will be taking pics and 100% of the proceeds will go to the dog park. Pics are $10 each or Free with your Brick or Paver order that day. We’ll have awesome raffles too! Check facebook for more details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190998110979274

As always, thanks for your support and let us know if you’d like to make a tax deductible year end gift to the park.

Keep your fingers and paws crossed for good luck tomorrow!

Woof,
–
Friends of Doylestown Dog Park

For information on upcoming events and news, please check us on online
at: www.doylestowndogpark.com
www.facebook.com/DoylestownDogPark
http://twitter.com/#!/dtowndogpark

To make a donation, please go to: http://doylestowndogpark.com/donate/
Thank you for your support!

Save the Date! Santa Paws is coming to Doylestown’s Life on the Leash to raise money for the dog park! Anyone who buys a Brick or Paver on Dec 10 will get a free photo with Santa (actual copy and digital versions), or you can just buy a photo for $10. We’ll have incredible raffles and more info soon! Details are on our facebook page, but check back for more details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190998110979274  Call Victoria to book your spot soon- walkins are welcome too

Also, please save the date for NOV 15th! We believe this will be the date that we present to the Doylestown Township Board of Supervisors for final approval!

As you are making your year end giving decisions, please consider a tax deductible gift to Doylestown Dog Park! Call or email us if you have any questions – details are also online: www.doylestowndogpark.com/donate

Additionally, some local schoolchildren are selling Lucy’s Cuisine Dog Treats- Homemade Dog Treats Baked with Love at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s craft fair this weekend  (Nov 5 & 6).  Details are here: www.olmccraftfair.com

Thanks for your support!

We want to wish you a safe and happy Halloween and give you an update about our meetings this week:

Unfortunately, our presentation to the Township Board of Supervisors that was supposed to happen on Tues is postponed while we work out some final details with the Township. We still hope to break ground this year and open as soon as we can this winter or spring (weather etc permitting!). Thank you for your patience and support!

We will be having our regularly scheduled monthly planning meeting this Wed, Nov 2 at The Zen Den (20 Donaldson Street Doylestown, PA) from 7-8pm. Come see the finished design/site plan, volunteer for Santa Paws, learn what still needs to be done and how you can help! Feel free to RSVP here on facebook if you’d like: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171068192983489

Also, as you make your year end giving decisions for the year, please consider a tax deductible donation to support the park by buying a Brick or Paver or joining as a Dog Park Partner.  If you are getting a Paver, Bob Shaw Signs has generously volunteered to turn your dog’s photo into a silhouette that can be engraved on a Paver. Please contact us if you have any questions about making a donation or check out our website for more details: www.doylestowndogpark.com/donate

Thank you so much to all of our wonderful supporters! You can view the current list of supporters here: www.doylestowndogpark.com/supporters Email us back here if your name needs corrected.

Also, if you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, please reply here with Unsubscribe in the subject line and we’ll make sure to send it to our volunteer who keeps the list up to date for us.

Hope to see you this week!

Best,
–
Friends of Doylestown Dog Park

For information on upcoming events and news, please check us on online
at: www.doylestowndogpark.com
www.facebook.com/DoylestownDogPark
http://twitter.com/#!/dtowndogpark

To make a donation, please go to: http://doylestowndogpark.com/donate/
Thank you for your support!

We hope you’ll join us Saturday, Oct 22 for Doylestown Township’s Howl-O-Ween costume contest from 10-12 at Central Park. We’ll have a Dog Park booth there and will be accepting donations and Brick and Paver orders. We hope to see you! Details are on this flyer: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150356084218680&set=a.446769458679.246836.115845948679&type=3&theater
We have to have our budget done soon for the Township in time for review before the Board of Supervisors meeting where we hope to get final approval to finally break ground- yay!  If you have been considering making a gift as a Dog Park Partner, or buying a Brick or Paver, now is the time to do it so we can go in with a strong budget to this meeting. Please contact us if you’d like to make a tax deductible gift! We are looking forward to the meeting on Nov 1 and hope you will join us to show your support and see the final Site Plan and our work to date.  We are so grateful to Donald A. Borden, RLA of Seasons Unlimited Design Centerfor his incredible donation of the site plan!

We have had some incredible donations come in recently, including a Silver Paw from Team Capital Bank and Bronze Paws from Invisible Fence of Delaware Valley, Petplan Pet Insurance and The Marotta Family. We will have the Supporters page update by Monday so be sure to check it out to make sure your name is listed correctly if you have donated and to see all the wonderful supporters who are looking forward to the dog park.

Thanks again to everyone for your support! Hopefully we’ll all be playing in the dog park this spring or sooner!

–
Friends of Doylestown Dog Park

For information on upcoming events and news, please check us on online
at: www.doylestowndogpark.com
www.facebook.com/DoylestownDogPark
http://twitter.com/#!/dtowndogpark

To make a donation, please go to: http://doylestowndogpark.com/donate/
Thank you for your support!

Check out our adorable Construction Dog Mascot- we are trying to decide on a name for him. Check our Facebook page for voting soon! He was a broken fire hydrant painted and donated by Glenna Vasoli. Thanks Glenna!

Please save the date for Tuesday, NOV 1 at 7pm when we will give a presentation for final approval to the Doylestown Township Supervisors at 7pm in the Township Building at 425 Wells Road, Doylestown, PA 18901. We hope you will join us to show your support!

We are still short of our fundraising goal and hope that you will consider a tax deductible gift to the dog park by purchasing a brick, paver, or joining as a Dog Park Partner. We have an incredible recognition program and fun naming opportunities to show case your dog, your family or your business. Please contact us to discuss your gift or check out our donation page for more details www.doylestowndogpark.com/donate

We are also in need of skilled laborers to help us erect the pavilion and skilled concrete finishers to donate their time too. The final things we need to start building are in kind donations of concrete, rocks and concrete finishing services or donations to fund their purchase.

We are probably going to do Santa Paws this year too- we just need a volunteer to help coordinate it because our core volunteers are really busy with other dog park related building projects. This will be our 3rd year doing it and we have a great group of volunteers ready to go, but we need someone to coordinate it. If that person is you, please let us know!

Thanks so much to everyone who has donated so far! We hope to have our supporters page up to date in the next week or so with all the new Brick and Paver donations that came in. We are double checking our list to send in our first brick and paver orders very soon and we are definitely still taking orders! The next round will probably be submitted in early November.

We look forward to the day when all of our dogs can play together and we are able to meet with our neighbors and friends at the dog park! Help us make our collective Doylestown Dog Park dream a reality!

Woof,

Friends of Doylestown Dog Park

For information on upcoming events and news, please check us on online at:

www.facebook.com/DoylestownDogPark

http://twitter.com/#!/dtowndogpark

Thank you for your support!

Exciting news- we will be sending in our first round of Brick and Paver orders to the company on Friday Sept, 23! Please try to bring/mail in your order forms before then so we can include you in the first order. We need 50 Bricks/Pavers for the first order and we have 44 now. Please make your tax deductible gift this week so we can have 50 orders to send in. Here is a copy of the Brick/Paver order form with all of the details: http://doylestowndogpark.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dog-park-brochure-and-brick-paver-order-form2.pdf

Doylestown Dog Park volunteers will be selling t-shirts, food scoops, raffle tickets for dtown mag art prints, and accepting Brick and Paver orders and donations of any kind all weekend long! We hope you will stop by to see us at these great events this weekend:

Rock for Rescue – Friday, Sept 16, 6-10 pm on the Work Quad at Del Val College

Delaware Valley College Rock for Rescue to benefit Rescue U students who are rebuilding/refurbishing animal shelters in need. Tickets to this concert are $10 for the public and $1 for students. Details on the bands playing are here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162557320484685 Stop by our Dog Park booth!

Doylestown Arts Festival, Friday and Saturday Sept 17th and 18th from 10am-5pm in beautiful downtown Doylestown

We’ll be on S. Main St. in booth #87. check out the map link below for our location. Please come visit us and dtown magazine to buy a raffle ticket for a dtown magazine art print, a t-shirt, a dog food scoop, a brick or paver or just to say hi and learn more about Doylestown Dog Park! http://doylestownartsfestival.com/doylestownartsfestivalmap2011.pdf

As we mentioned previously, we are still trying to raise the final $20,000 in cash or in-kind donations of concrete, concrete finishers, and rocks. If you are interested in donating for a naming opportunity or to become a Dog Park Partner, please let us know. We would love to break ground this fall, but need to raise the final funds/in kind donations in order to do so. We’ll also need skilled laborers and other volunteers to helps us with our community build of the pavilion- let us know if you can help!

We are so grateful to everyone who has supported us so far- please check out www.doylestowndogpark.com/supporters to see all of the wonderful community members and businesses showing their support for the park.

Thank you for your support,

Friends of Doylestown Dog Park

For information on upcoming events and news, please check us on online

at: www.doylestowndogpark.com

www.facebook.com/DoylestownDogPark

http://twitter.com/#!/dtowndogpark

To make a donation, please go to: http://doylestowndogpark.com/donate/

Thank you for your support!