The Arizona Humane Society’s annual Howl-i-Day Pet Food and Supply Drive runs from today through Dec. 31.

For the Arizona Humane Society, there’s never been a shortage of cats available for adoption. And this year, intake of cats has been “unparalleled,” said Kimberly Noetzel, spokeswoman for the Humane Society.

August 21, 2004

Some mighty tall tales will be told and new heights likely reached when the Central Arizona Tall Society celebrates its silver anniversary tonight.

Telemarketers are calling Scottsdale residents and others around the state with a pitch that starts off telling them a sex offender lives in their neighborhood, a Department of Public Safety official said.

December 24, 2004

Used books from mysteries to novels, in hardback and paperback, will be on sale 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in front of the Scottsdale Historical Museum, 7333 Scottsdale Mall, sponsored by the Scottsdale Historical Society.

The Mesa-East Valley Rose Society will present its annual Rose Garden Tour featuring three public rose gardens followed by six private gardens. All proceeds benefit the The Rose Garden at Mesa Community College. Public garden tours will be given every 30 minutes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 21. Cost is $10 for adults; children are free.

The Gilbert Historical Society is closer to its $600,000 two-year fundraising goal after The C.W. and Modene Neely Foundation announced last week it will donate $200,000 to help preserve the town’s legacy.

The Arizona Humane Society has finally reached the point where it must turn away cats and kittens because the shelter is full. The society is asking people to consider holding on to felines they were planning to drop off for a few more days, or if possible to try and find homes for them.

Magic is a spunky black kitten who looks like he’s wearing a tuxedo. He’s playful and curious and loves to purr. Yet the 10-week-old kitten has been sitting at the Arizona Humane Society Campus for Compassion for weeks while he waits for a home.

LOS ANGELES -- A national medical society is investigating whether a fertility doctor followed its guidelines when he implanted six embryos into a Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month.

April 7, 2005

Looking for a local place to shoot, a nearby hunter safety course, info on how to get started in the shooting sports, an outfitter for a hunting trip across the country?

Raising funds for a museum doesn’t have to be boring and the San Tan Historical Society in Queen Creek knows that people here love to shop outdoors, especially if it is for a good cause.

Students at Mesa's Lowell Elementary School raised more than $2,600 in Olive Garden's Pasta for Pennies program, one of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's national programs that raises money to find cures for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma while providing information and support services to patients and their families.

The Arizona Humane Society will host its 10th annual pet telethon from noon to 6:30 p.m. Saturday on KNXV-TV (Channel 15). The society wants to raise more than $500,000 to care for the 50,000 unwanted, sick, injured, lost and abused animals it will take in and care for this year alone.

Sean and Janice Miley of Chandler have an identity crisis. Most of their friends, in fact, know them as Their Excellencies Baron Tristan and Baroness Damiana.

Surprise is not exactly close to Ahwatukee, but anyone who cannot afford the $300 plus it can cost to have their pet spayed or neutered might just find it worth the drive.

January 4, 2005

The City of Surprise has joined forces with the Arizona Humane Society to sponsor a three-day event to spay and neuter pets. The Arizona Humane Society will bring its mobile Spay and Neuter Clinic to Surprise Aug. 9-11. The clinic will be at the northwest corner of Civic Center Plaza and West Tierra Buena Lane.

The City of Surprise has joined forces with the Arizona Humane Society to sponsor a three-day event to spay and neuter pets. The Arizona Humane Society will bring its mobile Spay and Neuter Clinic to Surprise Aug. 9-11. The clinic will be at the northwest corner of Civic Center Plaza and West Tierra Buena Lane.

The City of Surprise has joined forces with the Arizona Humane Society to sponsor a three-day event to spay and neuter pets. The Arizona Humane Society will bring its mobile Spay and Neuter Clinic to Surprise Aug. 9-11. The clinic will be at the northwest corner of Civic Center Plaza and West Tierra Buena Lane.

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