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New Sea Turtle Hospital Takes Shape
Take the
FAMILY GIVING CHALLENGE
The engineers, architect and builder
are working
everyday to make this
dream a reality. Now we need a little help from
our sea turtle
family.
We’re asking
you to directly participate in building our new hospital through the
Family Giving
Challenge
And you’re
going to be the ones to
define exactly who makes up your “family.” It might be the traditional
mom/dad/kids/dog family, with grandparents/aunts/uncles/cousins thrown
in. Or maybe there’s a group of you at work, or you’re part of a gang
who has
been friends since grade school. You probably hang out together and
plan
things as a “family.” It could be that your family consists of the
people you
attend church with, or an organization you belong to.
Our hospital
volunteers are
part of the “turtle family.” We take care of and support each other
through the
good and bad times. We think that’s a perfect definition of family, and
our
family needs your family’s help to get the walls up and a roof over our
turtles’
heads.
So here’s how you step up to our challenge.
Print the OFFICIAL GIVING FORM.
Decide who’s in your family, then put your game
faces on and come up
with some creative ways
to get together your $1,000 donation for our building fund.
And don’t think
your children are too young to participate in the planning! We have an
astounding number of kids who request donations for our patients in
lieu of a
birthday present. And these kids give repeatedly, year after year.
Toddlers to
teens show up at our summer open house lugging heavy bags of coins for
our
turtles; money they earned from lemonade stands, bake sales, special
sporting
events and chores; often hundreds of dollars in coins. And we’re very
heartened by
the moms, dads and grandparents who are so quick to pull out their
checkbooks on their way out the door after visiting us. When you
“spread the wealth”
you’ll be surprised how quickly those dollars add up to $1,000.
You can be a
“family” of one: or you can be “the one” in your family who spearheads
this
challenge. You make the rules.
When you’re ready to submit your donation just fill out the form and
mail it
to us per the instructions.
Your family name will appear on a plaque, which
will be permanently displayed in our new facility. You can also make
your
donation anonymously if you wish.
How proud will you be when you bring your
friends and relatives through our new building and point to your
family’s name on
the wall!
You’re literally getting in on the ground floor of
our much-needed
state-of-the
art rehabilitation facility.
Flipper hugs in
advance.
350 Families raising $1000
will meet our funding goals!!
With
your help we will
succeed.
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ADOPT A
RESCUED SEATURTLE
Adoping a sea turtle will help provide food and medical care for an
injured sea turtle.
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Follow SENNET after release.
Watch his progress on our
tracking
page
courtesy of SEATURTLE.ORG
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Save
the Sea Turtle'
license
plates are now
available.
Contact
the DMV
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Founder and Director
JEAN BEASLEY
IS ANIMAL PLANET'S 2007
Thanks for your
support!
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Please link your Food
Lion MVP cards to the Sea Turtle Hospital
In the search box type:
Karen Beasley Sea Turtle
Rescue & Rehabilitation, City: Topsail Beach
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THE UGLY SIDE OF
GILL
NETS
Untended gill nets are lethal for sea turtles.
This turtle couldn't escape, the net or the people. |
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IT'S ALIVE!!
and watch sea turtles go
through their day.
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BALLOONS and
TURTLES don't
mix
Discarded balloons drift
into the water
and are mistaken for food by sea turtles and
other marine
animals.
Shackleford III was
lucky to be able to pass these ingested pieces of balloons. |
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