How about a goat, monkey or bobcat for Christmas?
Looking for a different kind of gift this holiday season? Having difficulty finding something for that hard-to-buy-for person on your list? Take a look at Riverview Park and Zoo’s Adopt-anAnimal program. You can solve your purchase dilemmas while supporting the zoo. Adoption fees help with animal care, nutrition, enrichment and training, and veterinary health care.
Adopting is easy. You just make a donation in someone’s name and the zoo will send them an individualized adoption certificate, photo, and fact sheet about the animal that you select. The adoption is also listed on the animal adoption board located at the centre of the zoo. Adoptions generally last for one year and can be renewed. Tax receipts are also provided with each adoption.
There’s also a choice of animals and various prices. For $100 you can adopt a Tortoise, Burmese Python, Goat, Pot-Bellied Pig, Macaw, or Emu. For $150 the Red-Rumped Agouti, Squirrel Monkey, Meerkat, Ruffed Lemur, Red-Necked Wallaby, Donkey, Yak and Barbary Sheep are available. $200 adopts a Reindeer or the Bobcat, while Servals and River Otters cost $250. The Twotoed Sloth and Sichuan Takin cost $300 each to adopt.
You can also support the zoo with the purchase of a new park bench. These benches make a great gift or lasting tribute to a loved one. The cost, including a custom-engraved plaque, is $1,500.
For further information and adoption forms visit peterboroughutilities/Park_and_Zoo/ Adopt, call 705-748-9301, ext. 2331, or email riverviewparkandzoo@peterboroughutilities.ca.
Humane Society
The Peterborough Humane Society is a non-profit charitable organization that relies on the community to help meet the needs of the animals in their care. If you would like to make a donation, they do have a Holiday wish list. They need non-clumping litter, treats, kitten food and toys for cats, along with toys and treats for dogs. They also require operational supplies including sheets, towels, blankets, paper towels, and liquid laundry detergent. Canadian Tire money and gift cards for supplies would also be appreciated.
Also, volunteers are needed to work at the Humane Society Thrift Store, located at 184 Marina Blvd., in Northcrest Plaza. If you have items you no longer need you can also donate them to the shop.
The Thrift Shop hours are Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Volunteers are also needed for bingo nights twice a month. Bingo is held at Delta Bingo on Wednesday evenings. Volunteers must have their own transportation and commit to the position for one year. Duties include helping to sell bingo sheets, assisting with registration, providing customer service to guests and assisting with event logistics. Training is provided.
All funds raised by the Thrift Shop and bingo fundraisers are used by the Humane Society to help the animals. If you would like to volunteer for either of these positions email cpost@ptbohs.com.
Cozy Concert
The 15th annual A Cozy Christmas concert, hosted by the Foley family and friends, takes place Sunday at 2 p.m. at Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St. N. This fundraising concert will help pay for teachers in a small school in Liberia, West Africa.
The evening’s theme is Timeless Treasures of Christmas and will feature the music of Bridget Foley and the Gospel Girls (and guys), 4 Front (Theresa Foley, Terry Finn, Sheila Prophet and Norma Curtis), Colleen Anthony (Foley), Christina Heath, The Stage Café Band, Janina and John Kraus and family, Lizzeh Basciano, Murray and Sibernie James-Bosch and more, along with Christmas facts and storeys with storyteller Hugh Foley.
Tickets cost $20 or $10 for students and are available at showplace.org.