GPA Indy Message We need your help!

[Joe Carter]

Hello Everyone,

GPA Indy has been invited once again to participate in the annual Quaker Day
Festival and Parade in Plainfield on September 9th.    We will line up at
9:00 A.M. and the parade will kick off promptly at 10:00 A.M.  Last year we
had approximately 25 hounds that participated and we even won a trophy! We
had an overwhelming response from the parade crowd as well as at our booth!

So get your Red, White, and Blue Shirts ready!  This year we have bigger
plans! We will need a lot of help and support to pull it off though!   This
year we want more hounds and more KIDS!  We will be passing out brochures
and candy along the parade route!  We also need four kids to carry the GPA
Banner in front of the group!  We will line up at the Power Company and the
parade route is approximately 1 mile.   If you would like to participate but
you or your hound are not able to walk for 1 mile, good news, you can still
come! We will have a trailer for older dogs and people to ride on! We will
also use that trailer to transport people and dogs back to their cars at the
power company after the parade!

We will also have a booth that will need staffed all day long, if you or
your hounds could help out with that,  that would be great! We would like to
have 2-hour shifts at the booth, that way the hounds aren’t in the heat for
too long!  Also,  Sharon Murphy and I would like to be able to leave our
hounds at home, since this will be an all day event for us!

We also need donations to decorate the trailer!  We would like to decorate
it in a black and white checkered theme!  We will be using Anne and Frank
Duck’s Idea to play the song “Rescue Me” throughout the parade!  If you aren
’t able to attend the parade, but would like to donate either decorations or
money to buy decorations please let me know!  We will also schedule a
“decorating party” for the trailer a couple of days in advance.

We would like to have AT LEAST 30 HOUNDS to participate in the parade and we
would love for our current foster dogs to attend!  This event draws a huge
crowd, and generates a lot of interest in our booth that day.  It would be
nice to have fosters at the booth! If you are interested in participating in
the parade,  please contact Michelle Carter at jcarter14 at indy.rr.com , or if
you can swing a couple of hours at the booth, please contact Sharon Murphy
at smurph_01 at hotmail.com .  Donations and participation are very important
to make this event a success!  Look forward to hearing from you all very
soon!

Yours Truly,

Michelle Carter