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Paws to Salute Our Heroes
Written By: David Stroud - Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society | Issue: 2018/08 - August
The Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society presented its prestigious Humane Hero of the Year Awards at its annual fundraiser Bark, Beer & Barbeque this past June at The Farm in Highlands. The awards, now in its fifth year, recognize animal-loving recipients in three categories – Individual, Business and Special Recognition.
Receiving the 2018 CHHS Individual Humane Hero of the Year was Lila Howland in recognition of her decades of volunteer work in animal welfare, and for her efforts in the early 2000’s to expand the original charter and jurisdiction of what was then known as the Cashiers Area Humane Society into what is known today as the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society.
Old Edwards Hospitality Group was honored as the 2018 CHHS Business Humane Hero of the Year to recognize their years of donations of bedding that have aided the comfort of shelter animals, their intern volunteer service days at CHHS featuring students from around the world, and for a corporate culture that vigorously works to reunite lost pets with their worried families.
The 2018 CHHS Special Recognition Humane Hero of the Year Award was given to The Town of Highlands, as a gesture of gratitude for an animal-loving philosophy including the building and maintaining of a public dog park, providing the use of the community building for CHHS adoption events, and for hosting the annual CHHS Forever Family Reunion at the dog-friendly Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park.
More than 200 guests attended the sold-out event to support the CHHS mission of rescue, spay/neuter, compassionate care and adoption, and to help fund the construction of the new CHHS Feline Adoption & Animal Care Center, North Carolina’s most modern no-kill shelter exclusively for cats and kittens, opening on the 10-acre CHHS campus in Fall, 2018.
Established in 1987, Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal shelter that receives no state or county tax dollars, and no funding from any national animal organization. CHHS is located on Highway 64 in Sapphire, two miles east of the Cashiers Crossroads. For more information, visit us online at CHhumanesociety.org or call (828) 743-5752. Tax-deductible donations to support our lifesaving work can be mailed to: CHHS, P.O. Box 638, Cashiers, NC 28717.
