ARTech Students Donate to Prairie’s Edge Humane Society

Oen McKinlay and Evan Pak from Anne Klawiter’s 8th grade class at care about animals. They care so much they held their own fundraiser for the animals at . Oen and Even held a Step-A-Thon, an idea they came up with by thinking of a walk-a-thon, but instead of pledging per mile, they asked for pledges per 10 steps.  They even applied for and received a mini-grant from the Healthy Community Initiative to make their Step-A-Thon possible by allowing them to purchase pedometers to keep track of their steps and printed a flyer to use in collecting pledges.   

On May 13th, Oen and Evan walked through their normal day wearing the pedometers, and then kept walking to reach a grand total of 12,000 steps, raising almost $500 for the animals at Prairie’s Edge Humane Society.  What a great accomplishment by these young people, who made a choice to give back to their community!

Oen and Evan visited Prairie’s Edge Humane Society to present their donation in person and received a tour of the PEHS facility so that they could see in person what their donation will be helping.  Prairie’s Edge Humane Society is a non-profit organization who depends on donations from caring friends such as Oen and Evan, in order to care for the numerous homeless and neglected animals of our community.   PEHS is an open door facility, which means we take them all, we never turn an animal away.  We treat their ailments vaccinate and spay or neuter and house them until they are adopted.  

PEHS also works with animal control officials in surrounding communities to re-home stray animals.  PEHS works to educate and assist the public in prevention of animal homelessness and neglect and we facilitate low-income families with spay and neutering in order to reduce pet overpopulation.  All funds for the daily operations of caring for these homeless animals, comes from adoption fees and from friends like Oen and Evan who value the work that PEHS does.