Thank you to Boyd Gaming for an amazing morning at the Suncoast Casino for Boyd Gaming Trees of Hope awards ceremony. Congratulations to all of the amazing charities that participated. You are inspiring in the many avenues of work that you provide to our community. Thank you to all those that brought the Pawtastic Friends tree to life... Joanne, Sandy, Ruth, Rose, Nicole, Linda, Maria and Chelsea. My heart is full of gratitude, and my eyes tears... a labor of love. Thank you

What better way to welcome December, then a holiday event to showcase some amazing, adoptable scholars, some talented, local vendors, and the one and only Santa. It was a super Sunday. So many came out to support. As the day went by seven times,  I watched in awe at a different holiday hustle and bustle. People visited with some incredible dogs and many left with lots of holiday gear and gifts for themselves and others. Everyone made their list for Santa, and he checked it tw