Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Community-Waterville Humane Society

Update from our wonderful Waterville Humane Society!!!!

More than 2,500 homeless pets from the greater Waterville Maine area found loving families!  Since our humble beginnings in 1970, the Humane Society Waterville Area (HSWA) has seen both good times and bad – but 2016 has been one of our best years EVER!  Teamwork and collaboration with other like-minded organizations deserves much of the credit, but we couldn’t have done it without the help of many supporters like you.
We believe that any animal who can be saved, should be saved.  And we are proud to announce that HSWA has become a no kill shelter. 
Our placement rate has now rocketed to over 97%!
Critical medical and life support are provided daily to our shelter residents. Broken bodies, and hearts, illness, and homelessness – we are there for each and every one.  At HSWA it’s also a part of our mission, and responsibility to be a safety-net for owned animals in our community, so we additionally extend wellness care and pet food into our service area.
A tremendous amount has been accomplished – but there is still much to do!  And we CAN do more – with your continued support.
Please.  Consider donating to the campaign to help homeless pets arriving at HSWA.  Together we’re giving these pets a second chance. Animals like Pirelli, Elwood, Wesley and Jamie… please read their stories!
Give Now and give TWICE as much – FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS YOUR DONATION CAN BE DOUBLED!  A generous animal lover and supporter, who is also one of our shelter fosters, has offered to match each and every donation to HSWA between 12/27 – 12/31 at midnight.  i.e.  your gift of $25, plus the matching gift of $25, will become a donation of $50!   This will cap out at a $4,000 total donation amount – please help us reach the FULL $4,000 amount for HSWA’s animals!
How to donate:
  • Go to our website hswa.org; click on the “DONATE: heart button and use with your credit card or PayPal.
  • Call (207) 873-2430; and donate to the matching campaign by phone.
  • Mail a check with a note in the memo field (check postmarked 12/31/16). 100 Webb Rd. Waterville, ME
Make a note in the memo field:  “for the Give Hope Matching Campaign”
Whatever your gift, please know it will truly be appreciated!
If you cannot donate at this time, consider providing support in other ways, such as fostering –also very much needed and crucial to getting these deserving animals back on their paws and into a loving home.  We encourage you to volunteer, or hold your own fundraiser.  Every effort enhances our programs.
Let’s help the new pets whose stories will unfold every single day in the upcoming year.
Peace and happiness in the New Year,
Lisa Smith
Executive Director

PS – Questions?  Call:  (207) 873-2430 and ask to speak to our Program Director, Rory Routhier, or myself about donations, fostering or volunteering.
PPS – your donation is tax deductible to the legal extent; HSWA is a 501(c) (3) licensed charity.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Waterville Community-Human Society News

Help Us
Clear the Shelters
August 19, 2017
Since 2015, Clear the Shelters has resulted in more that 70,000 pet adoptions nationwide
The Humane Society Waterville Area is participating as an official Clear the Shelters partner alongside NEWSCENTER/WSCH 6 and WLBZ 2. The Humane Society Waterville Area will be offering low cost and, in some cases, waived adoption fees on August 19th, from 12 pm to 5 pm.
Are you looking for that purrfect companion? 
There are many deserving animals waiting at HSWA, for that special person to come along. Now is the time to add a furry friend to your family!

All cats and kittens will be 50% off!
Dogs (excluding puppies and transport dogs) will be 50% off!
Plus, some of our most special animals will be fee waived!
Help HSWA 'clear the shelter' all weekend! INTRODUCING NEW SUNDAY HOURS!
 
New Sunday Hours!!!
For the first time in its history, the Humane Society Waterville Area will now be open to the public on Sundays from 12 pm to 4 pm.

New Hours:
Sunday: 12 pm- 4pm
Monday12pm-4 pm
Tuesday12 pm- 4 pm
Wednesday12 pm- 4 pm
Thursday12 pm- 6 pm
Friday: 12 pm- 6 pm
Saturday12 pm- 5 pm
Any animal that can be saved, should be saved and at the Humane Society Waterville Area, will be saved.
Humane Society Waterville Area, 100 Webb Road, Waterville, ME 04901
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Waterville Public Library Wins National Medal!

The Waterville Public Library has been selected as a recipient of the 2017 National Medal for Museum and Library Services, the nation's highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to the community. 5 libraries and 5 museums have been selected as winners. The 2017 winners of the National Medal demonstrate impactful programs and services that exceed the expected levels of community outreach and are known as catalysts for community change.
Statement by Waterville Public Library Director, Sarah Anne Sugden:
At the opening ceremony of the new library building in May 1905, Elwood Wyman, Superintendent of Waterville Public Schools, reminded our community that, as with a human, the infancy and youth of a public institution like a library must be considered a period of growth and maturation. Wyman acknowledged that his would not be the generation of Waterville citizens to see the Waterville Public Library reach its fullest potential.
One doesn’t plant acorns for immediate shade, after all. One also doesn’t plant acorns for minimal impact.
In 1904, when our own Waterville library building was still under construction, Minneapolis Public Library Director Gratia Countrymen wrote: “Perhaps still in the minds of many a library is only a place where books are stored, or distributed under many objectionable restrictions. But in the larger sense, the library should be a wide-awake institution for the dissemination of ideas. It should be the center of all the activities of a city that lead to social growth, municipal reform, civic pride, and good citizenship. It should have its finger on the pulse of the people.”
An innovative, dynamic, welcoming, useful public library has been our goal since our very founding. A building just filled with books (or whatever format comes next) was never the intention.
We hope, then, that Elwood Wyman would be pleased and proud that the Waterville Public Library has been selected as a recipient of the 2017 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, our nation’s greatest honor bestowed to libraries. We hope that you, the community we are so lucky to serve, are pleased and proud, too. National Medal recipients are selected for significant and exceptional contributions to their communities and have demonstrated innovative and extraordinary approaches to public service. We are humbled and proud and so very grateful for this remarkable recognition.
Without question, a great library requires a great team.
The Waterville Public Library is so blessed to have an amazing group of Library volunteers, who donate 100 hours of their time each week to help our Library provide the quality of library service Waterville deserves.
We are lucky this community abounds with awesome organizations, businesses, and institutions with whom we collaborate in numerous ways to empower citizens and strengthen our community.
The kindnesses, support, and generosity consistently shown to the Library by City of Waterville municipal departments are too innumerable to list. Without this extraordinary assistance, the Waterville Public Library would not operate.
The steadfast and generous financial support of community members, local businesses, organizations, and foundations have also made all the difference for the Waterville Public Library and our efforts.
Library Trustees have kept the Library open and moving forward for more than a century, and are we glad! The Board of Library Trustees has been a remarkable steward of this critical community resource, benefiting generations of Waterville citizens.
Each day, Library staff members bring their A game to work, offering the very best of customer and library service to every member of our community. They rock.
It is the cumulative efforts of all Waterville Public Library team members that enable the Library to provide library service meritorious of the National Medal. We offer our heartfelt, love-filled thanks to everyone.
As we said, a great library takes a great team.
The Waterville Public Library has not yet reached the fullest potential in serving the citizens of this community. Each day, we learn and grow. If, in our beginning, we were an acorn, then, in library years, the Waterville Public Library is only now unfurling leaves and extending roots and branches. After all, libraries, like oak trees, live for a very, very long time.
We are just getting started.
Your public library loves you, Waterville, Maine. ❤️





Monday, January 9, 2017

Waterville Public Library-Our Community-Help restore the library after water damage

How to Help Restore the Library After Water Damage

Many people have asked how to help the Waterville Public Library following the water damage from a burst pipe on Saturday, December 17, 2016. 
Thank you for these offers of support and sympathy. The Library is really lucky that insurance will cover some of the damage and repair. However, we don’t know yet how much of the damage will be covered by insurance. We are particularly concerned about the loss of our Children’s science/technology and natural history/wildlife books. These are some of the most popular and heavily-used materials in our Children’s nonfiction collection. Restoring this collection to meet the interests and needs of Waterville’s children is a priority for the Library.
How can you help?
Please keep those sentiments of support and love coming our way! Your encouragement and kindness are so appreciated and make such a difference.
If you are inspired and able, please consider donating a gift of cash to the Library to help us restore our Children’s nonfiction collection and cover costs of repair not covered by insurance. Donations can be dropped off at the Library or mailed to Waterville Public Library c/o RESTORE THE LIBRARY, 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME 04901. Donations can also be made online by clicking on the Donate button on the Waterville Public Library web site: www.watervillelibrary.org  or by clicking this link to donate.
For more information regarding the December 17, 2016 burst pipe at the Waterville Public Library, please visit these links: