the rescue report: Mickaboo & 'Coo Holiday Party 2011

Wow! The Mickaboo & 'Coo annual Holiday Party and Silent Auction was held at The Eagles Hall in Livermore on Saturday and it was quite an event!

Thanks to a whole lot of very generous support and participation from a great many of you, MickaCoo raised $2,056 from the Silent Auction! And we still have a number of really wonderful items available which we are planning to make available via online auctions if we can inspire an eBay-savvy volunteer to help us! (Email me at AdoptKings at gmail dot com to help!)

This very successful auction would not have been possible without many hours of help from Margie Gear (coordinator for the combined 'Boo & Coo event), tremendous support (and many miles) from 'Coo's auction coordinator Marsha Bassett and the cool-under-pressure banking talents of event cashier (and Costume Contest winner) Cheryl "Pay the Pigeon" Dickinson!

MickaCoo gratefully thanks these many individuals and companies for their donations in support of the pigeons and doves that depend on our help:

Marsha Bassett

Margie Gear

Cheryl Dickinson

Lucy Tolmach

Rhonda Bennon

Jaclyn Oppedisano

Beth Pforr

Karen Benzel

Louisa Jaskulski

Kate Edwards

Mary Long

Karen Kalumuck

Katie Wunderlich

J Brooke Patterson Studio

P Blau Art

Ingrid Taylar Photography

Jordan Vineyard & Winery

Art for the Birds

Megan Wolfe Photography

Alice Finney Jewelry

Artist Jaclyn Alderete

Artist Lacey Bryant

Terra Savia Winery

explOratorium

Hackney Horse & Carriage

Victoria Webb: Looking Glass Photography

Wayne Pacelle & The Humane Society of the US

Lori McIntosh Photography

Mermaids Tattoo

Shae Irving: Artful Jammer

And, thanks to an incredibly generous $500 matching grant offered to party goers by Dr. Sanders and the Wildwood Veterinary Hospital, an additional $1110 was raised and 4 more donors were won in the critical GlobalGiving challenge. (We're about half way to our goal with 26 days remaining.)

Thank you SO much to everybody for supporting MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue so generously. Your help makes all the difference for these sweet, innocent birds that would otherwise face euthanasia as the "solution" to their plight. Here are photo albums from the event.