News & Events
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updated June 14, 2010
June, 2010
We are now located at our new location at 95 White Road in Lively (no longer within the Walden Animal Hospital). We want to thank our many volunteers for helping us move on May 29th and 30th, 2010 during our big moving weekend to the new site! We are very happy to be settling in to our new home and are enjoying the wonderful space and amenities we now have such as a concrete floor and climate control. We appreciate what we now have when we compare it to our humble beginnings inside the Walden Animal Hospital where all we had were plywood walls and scraps of linoleum on top of gravel for the floor. It's amazing how we got this far and we thank everyone who has supported us in any way be it through volunteering or donations. Every little bit counts at our centre and we really appreciate the support of our caring community. Thank you to everyone! Stay tuned for for news and upcoming events from the new site! We are still in need of donations of construction supplies so we can fully finish the interior of our centre and open to the public. We hope to complete our interior soon so you can visit us and learn about protecting our local wildlife and our environment.
May 2010
We are seeking help from anyone interested in assisting with interior finishing work. We have volunteers who are working at our centre every week to complete parts of the interior so that we can continue moving our centre over from the Walden Animal Hospital to the new site just down the street. We have begun moving some items over but cannot finish the move until the animal care floor, mezzanine, and intensive care rooms are complete. Please contact Gaetanne Gladu (705-507-3045) to help us with painting, trim, flooring, installation of cupboards/countertops, and a few other tasks. We appreciate any help you can give!
April 30th, 2010
The 2010 Spring Newsletter is here! Catch up on all things happening at our centre!
April 23 & 24, 2010
Wild at Heart participated in the Green Earth Expo at the Exhibition Centre in Sudbury. This Expo showcased "green" organizations and businesses in our city and included information on eco lifestyles, vegan/vegetarian foods, alternative energy, "how to" workshops, healthy living, future concepts, organic sources, and much more!
April 17th, 2010 - Wild About Comedy Night
On Saturday April 17th, we hosted our very first "Wild about Comedy Night" dinner, auction & comedy show to support our centre! Stay tuned to for the total amount we were able to fundraise from this event. We will also be posting photos shortly.
April 17th, 2010 - Sudbury Earth Day Festival
Wild at Heart participated in the Greater Sudbury Earth Day Festival at Market Square downtown. We joined a group of approx. 80 exhibitors and were able to promote our centre to over 1800 attendees. We are proud to have been part of such an amazing event and after we were finished with Earth Day festivities downtown, we zipped over to Cambrian College to attend our Wild about Comedy Night! What a day that was!
Items Needed at Our Centre this Spring/Summer:
March 25 - Watch for us at the New Sudbury Centre for National Wildlife Week!
Wild at Heart will be at the New Sudbury Centre from April 5th to 8th, 2010 in front of Soft Moc to promote National Wildlife Week and to encourage people to think about "Wildlife Gardening" this year. We want to teach people about how they can attract wildlife to their backyards in a positive way. We are providing information on building bird houses, bat houses, toad houses, bee bungalows, flying squirrel boxes, snake dens, and much more! We will also be selling seed kits to help you attract different types of pollinators and birds to your backyard this summer. Purchase your wildlife gardening kit at our booth, or any of the other great items we will have for sale and help support the work of the Wild at Heart Wildlife Refuge Centre!
March "Drywall Parties" & "Work-Bees"
Wild at Heart would like to thank our amazing volunteers for organizing and participating in weekend "Drywall Parties" and "Work-Bees" to help us complete the interior of our centre in time for us to move from the Walden Animal Hospital to our new facility just steps away. We had several people each weekend come out to help us install and mud drywall, sand, and paint. Our volunteers are assisting our construction crew who are working daily at our centre thanks to the Job Creation Program through the Ontario Government. This crew's term is up very soon and we need to move in so we called on all of our volunteers to lend a hand, a drill, a trowel, a paintbrush, and anything else they could to help out! The work is not finished yet as we enter our third weekend of drywall partying March 27th and 28th.
March 18, 2010
We have just discovered that the two other comedians accomanying Ben Guyatt at our Wild About Comedy Night are Bill Davern & Gary Owens - We can't wait! Buy your tickets today and don't miss out on this amazing evening of fun, food, and many laughs! (all at a great price!) - See the above link for more information about our Comedy Night.
February 27th, 2010
Wild at Heart hosted an Education Workshop at the New Sudbury Public Library to receive input from interested volunteers who wanted to contribute to our education program. Wild at Heart has five themes in our education program: Wildlife Rehabilitation, Northern Ecosystems, In Your Backyard, Aboriginal Teachings, and Human-Wildlife Interactions. If you are interested in any of these themes and would like to contribute to our program, contact Sarah Wendorf (Education Developer) at sarah@wahrefugecentre.org. We invite anyone with an interest in wildilfe and the environment to join our education team!
Thursday January 21st, 2010
Wednesday January 13th, 2010
Wild at Heart invited the public to visit us in the lobby of the Walden Animal Hospital at 11 White Road in Lively all day on Wednesday January 13th. Visitors learned about our wildlife centre, met the staff, signed up to volunteer at our centre, and filled out a ballot to win a great prize! Wild at Heart sold our popular 2010 wall calendar featuring wildlife we treated at our centre over the past year, as well as memberships, t-shirts, hand-crafted birdhouses and suet feeders, and much more!
Congratulations to Lisa Polkinghorne who was the winner of our beautiful framed print of a songbird by local artist Astrid Coulton.
KICX 91.7 FM Hot New Country's morning hosts, Luke & Shannon also joined us! We co-hosted the "Morning Show with Luke and Shannon" from 6:00am to 9:00am and talked about the different exciting things happening at Wild at Heart. We included a trivia question on the air for people to call in and answer correctly to win a Wild at Heart 2010 calendar. The question was "What group of small mammals is called a "skulk" or a "leash"?" - the correct answer was "Fox". Congratulations to our winner, Cory Baker for correctly answering the question!
Friday January 8th, 2010
Wild at Heart had the oppotunity to be featured in The Sudbury Star as part of the Walden Community Action Network's monthly publication. Click Here to access the Walden CAN website to read the article and Here to view it on The Sudbury Star's website! We want to thank Gwen Doyle of the Walden CAN for giving us this opportunity to feature our calendar and talk a little about our new centre and our fundraising efforts for 2010.
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Construction is
well underway.....but we need YOUR help!
Wild at Heart is getting a new home! Because we have outgrown our current home within the Walden Animal Hospital, in the fall of 2008, Wild at Heart began construction of a brand new wildlife rehabilitation and education centre that will be open to the public! Our new wildlife centre combines a public education centre and a wildlife treatment centre under the same roof!
Education Centre:
Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre:
Our New Centre will be Environmentally Friendly:
Wild
at Heart is committed to protecting wildlife and the environment. Our
new wildlife centre is being built with that in mind, and includes
How You Can Help............
Make a donation!
Wild at Heart needs help from people like you to build and "furnish" our new home! You can help by making a donation towards the cost of our new facility. While we have funding for a good start, we need much more to fully complete and furnish the building to enable us to continue (and expand!) the education programs and wildlife care that we are committed to.
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