Finding a permanent home is the aim for all the animals that reside temporarily at the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley. Their caretakers kindly help out by throwing one heck of a party each year.
This summer, the Animal Shelter benefit dinner, auction and raffle will begin with cocktails at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21, at Sun Valley's Trail Creek Pavilion. Music will be provided by Bruce Innes, and there will be, naturally, a parade of adoptable dogs. The event is chaired by Carole Sampson and Rosemary Aquailante.
Many exciting items were donated for both a live and silent auction, including an array of birdhouses made by Wood River Valley-based artists, architects and contractors. The Birdhouse Festival has such items as the Edible Beddable by Colleen Pace, Birdie's Bad Dream by Bob Main, the Deluxe Redfish Lake House and the Frank Lloyd Bird by Scott Grill. There are dozens more with equally enticing themes. The dogs have clearly gone to the birds.
If that's true, you might as well consider the live auction items. How about a week exploring the French countryside of Provence with friends at La Mandarine, a country home near Bonnieux? Or head off on a fishing trip to Argentina with two nights in Buenos Aires, and a week at the all-inclusive Challhuaquen Fishing Lodge on the Rio Futaleufu.
Here's an appropriate item to muster some interest in: the Westminster Dog Show package, which includes airfare, luxury accommodations, and a special-access pass for two to the dog show, to be held Feb. 12 and 13, 2008 in New York City.
Two more trips will be offered: a house in Eleuthra for a week and a trip to Carmel, Calif., with season badges to the AT&T Pebble Beach National ProAm Golf Tournament, Feb. 4 to 10, 2008.
Two dinner parties will also be auctioned off. One is for 100 people at Buffalo Bites in Ketchum with Trader Ric's famous Mai Tais, poo poo platters and music. The other will include the music of the Deer Creek String Quartet—composed of members of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony¾and a gourmet dinner catered by David Fox of Silver Fox Catering at your home or the home of Mike and Carole Sampson.
Also to be auctioned is a limited-edition giclee print by Ron Burns, whose art work graces the benefit's invitation, depicting three search and rescue dogs.
Finally there will be a drawing for the grand raffle prize of a $10,000 gift certificate to Atkinsons' Market.
For more information or for reservations, call the shelter at 788-4351 or Leslie Luray at 788-4774.
?Frank Lloyd Bird? by Scott Grill will be auctioned off at the Animal Shelter benefit, Tuesday.
