As we’ve said before, Jamie is always up to something. Yesterday during Playroom cleaning, I heard a banging sound coming from one of the front rooms. As I peaked around the corner, I noticed Jamie had dismantled a plastic jack-in-the-box and found a couple of small metal posts. Using a pair of binoculars as a hammer, she was hammering the metal posts into a plastic needlepoint sheet. The girl is always busy!
Archives for April 2010
Spring grass
We’ve had some crazy weather here the last few weeks. Today, though, actually felt like Spring. Most of the snow melted and revealed patches of grass, which Annie spotted when the human door to the greenhouse was opened. Annie loves grass, as you know from last spring and summer, so J.B. felt he had to give everyone a taste.
VegFesting
Come see Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest at VegFest in Seattle now and all weekend! VegFest is a huge event put on by the Vegetarians of Washington. The $8 ticket price is nothing when you see all of the free food samples.
Past board president and chimp house volunteer Mary took the first shift, current board president and chimp house volunteer Jessica took the second shift. Clearly, we have a pretty awesome board of directors. Read about all members on our Board of Directors page.
Jamie the Human (his official title to distinguish him from Jamie the Chimpanzee) is there now until 6pm tonight. Jamie will be back tomorrow morning at the 10:00am opening and I’ll be there all Sunday afternoon. Come say hi and drop a dollar or two in our donation jar.
The First Arrivals
This morning, Jamie received her first pair of boots in our Chimps’ Choice challenge from volunteer Lisa. Keep ’em coming!
Thanks, Lisa!
Today in honor of Anthony Lawson
Happy Birthday Anthony! Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest celebrates your day today, thanks to Julie Poppoff. We wish you the very best from all of your primate friends at the sanctuary.
GoodSearch Giveaway – only 3 days to act!
Next time you’re surfing the web or shopping online, ask yourself: “did I just help the Cle Elum Seven chimpanzees?”
Download the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest toolbar from GoodSearch today and we’ll get a dollar. Then use GoodSearch to surf and GoodShop for all of your online shopping and we’ll continue to get money. GoodSearch has generated big bucks for some organizations, let’s make CSNW one of them!
Here are the details of the promotion from GoodSearch:
GoodSearch will donate a $1 for every toolbar that is downloaded between April 6th at 9am EDT and April 9th at 9am EDT up to $5,000!! Download the toolbar right now by following this link – http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/chimpanzee-sanctuary-northwest
The toolbar is free to download and allows you to raise money for our cause every time you search or shop online. Once added to IE or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest – at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar provides coupons and deals as well!). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated to the sanctuary.
Please hurry and do this now so that we can earn the $1 bonus per toolbar!
And, please pass this along to all of your friends. The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference for our cause!
Get the toolbar NOW! http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/chimpanzee-sanctuary-northwest
Chimps’ Choice
Wanna make Jamie’s day? Give her some cowboy boots!
Some of our blog readers recently came up with an idea for us to highlight specific items for people to donate. It’s called “Chimps’ Choice”. This month, in honor of her new fascination, we would like to call on our blog readers to donate cowboy boots for Jamie. Not only will you make Jamie’s day, but if you do so within the next month, we will send you a photo of Jamie as a thank you!
As our regular followers most likely know, Jamie cannot seem to get enough cowboy boots! It all started last Halloween/Jamie’s Birthday, when volunteer Stephanie P. brought a pair she found at a Goodwill. She absolutely LOVED them and carried them around all the time, until they finally fell apart. Since then, she’s received a few other pairs and it’s beginning to become apparent to me that her excitement builds a little more with each pair. She got another new pair at the party on Sunday, thus it only seems fitting that more boots would be this month’s “Chimps’ Choice” item! We also put out more of the pink paper, which resulted in an EPIC-sized nest! 🙂
