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Happy 2025!

Happy 2025!

I don’t need to tell you that 2024 was a challenging year for the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society (OPHS), but we’ve been working hard to get our organization back on track.

Since September 2024, when we began charting a new direction for OPHS, the following have been accomplished:

• We found homes for just under 80 cats and kittens.

• Core staff participated in an intensive training program to better care for the dogs in Bark House.

• Animal care specialists and managers completed a course in CPR and emergency first aid for cats and dogs.

• Facing (and overcoming) a seemingly endless stream of unforeseen problems, staff (and at least one Board member)have pitched in to help sanitize, repair, and upgrade the Bark House.

• We began rebuilding the Board of Directors to include members with diverse backgrounds and skillsets, all committed to building a better OPHS.

• We implemented new infectious disease control and operational protocols to ensure the health and safety of our furry charges.

• We improved our operations and infrastructure and, in doing so, cut costs so that we have more funds to devote to the care of our animal charges.

• For the first time in a while, we received more in donations than we spent for ongoing operations and renovations in November and December.

So, we find ourselves finally moving in the right direction. But more work is needed so that we can improve the lives of stray and surrendered cats and dogs in Clallam County. In 2025, we’re looking forward to:

• Reopening of Bark House! (ue to the aforementioned “unforeseen problems”, the deadline has slipped a bit, but we’re still aiming to be reopen within the next few weeks);

• Welcoming a veterinarian into the OPHS family;

• Building the Board to full strength;

• Holding our annual fund-raising dinner and our Halloween-for-kids event; and

• Hosting, for the first time in OPHS’ 78-year history, a Benefit Concert featuring the nationally renowned band The Steel Wheels at Field Hall in Port Angeles (details to follow).

Thanks to everyone who has continued to believe in OPHS and our mission and who contributed to that cause in 2024.  Thanks to those of you who raised questions about OPHS, helping us to take a hard look at and improve the organization.  Finally, thanksto our dedicated staff and volunteers who have been working tirelessly to improve the Bark House and all of OPHS .

With your help, we are determined to make 2025 our best year ever.

 

Paul Stehr-Green

Board President and Acting Executive Director

Olympic Peninsula Humane Society

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