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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 2000 Community 6 $ere ifour Best Friends Visit Ritz Ouackers at Feathered Friends for Easter Help cure Cystic Fibrosis and buy a chance to win this quilt at Glazier's Food Town from now until Apnl 27. Great Strides: A walk to cure Cystic Fibrosis this quilt will be quickly Saturday, April 29, will be raffle for into 6.2 for mile translated a scheduled the exciting scienday Fitific advances. This quilt was walk for the cure of Cystic brosis. GREAT STRIDES, now put together and quilted by our in its twelfth year, is the Cystic own Senior Citizens. They doFibrosis Foundations largest nated their time and efforts to and fastest growing fundraiser help make strides for this ge- nationwide. CF is a genetic disease affecting 30,000 children and adults in the United States. A defective gene causes the body to produce an abnormally thick, sticky mucus. This abnormal mucus leads to chronic and lung infections and impairs digestion. One in every 20 persons are a carrier of the gene, but to get CF, both parents must be a carrier. Then every child they have has a one in four chance of having this disease, or one in two chances of being a carrier. Currently, there is no cure. Your money donated on the ng netic disease. Money buys science and science buys life! We have three very special children here in our area that have this dreaded disease. Please help support them in this effort. This quilt will be on display at Glaziers Foodtown. So come and buy a raffle ticket and all the money we raise will go directly to Cystic Fibrosis. These tickets will be 1 for $1.00 or 6 for $5.00. The drawing will take place on April 27. The winner will be announced in the Southern Utah News on May 3. Thank you again for your support. LcCfcL The best animal to give a child kiddy pool, an enclosed area safe during Easter season doesnt from predators, grass to walk on and lots of good food. chirp or waddle. to stuffed Its really better buy People should also keep in animals, says Sharon St. Joan, mind that the duck will grow up, director of the sanctuarys Feath- need a mate and live as long as seriered Friends department. They 20 years. Its a long-terdont mind being carried around ous commitment, the Best by small children and if theyre Friends wildlife rehabilitator ignored, theres no harm done. says. The duck population at FeathThis time of year domesticated that cant fend for ered Friends illustrates the misducklings themselves like their wild breth- fortunes Easter animals often ren find their way into homes suffer. across the country. Cashew, Macadamia and CoSadly, interest in the adorable conut were purchased last spring puffballs often wanes, and they as a couples Easter surprise for wind up neglected or abandoned. their children. The trio lived in a People should think about box and then were placed in a their responsibilities to ducks, dog carrier, put outside and, for just as they do before bringing the most part, forgotten. The ducks werent fed or wahome a dog or cat, St. Joan says. They need a pond or a tered properly and they never had the chance to go in water, as ducks need to do, St. Joan says. Finally, the neighbors asked the owners for permission to bring the ducks to Best Friends. First order of business was cleaning up the mistreated little fellows. We gave them four baths in a row and they began to look like ducks again, St. Joan says. They had all lost their waterCx A Get Acquainted Reception Hosted Best Friends Animal by Sanctuary An opportunity to meet some of the Best Friends staff and to learn about our development plans and tourism expectations for the coming season. at Denny's Wigwam Thursday, April 20, 2000 at 7 p.m. Cashew and Macadamia quickiy made friends with Reeves mallards, Donald and Daisy, and began frolicking in the creek on her spread. Im certain theyll enjoy living here where all the animals are treasured and respected family members, said Reeves, co- founder of the Auburn Area Animals Rescue Foundation. Meanwhile, Coconut still suffers from bumble foot, despite the attentions of the sanctuary staff and daily swims in a kiddy pool. Two other Easter ducks, Plato and Isabella, took refuge at Best Friends over the past year. They were bought for children whose parents failed to consider the problems that could arise for ducks firing in a household with a dog. The ducks came to Best Friends with serious injuries from an attack by the dog. Plato had a huge gash on his chest. Theyve fully recovered now, says St. Joan, and they could use a new home. Feathered Friends is caring for two more ducks that may proofing, and Coconut had bumble foot, an infection caused from walking on a smooth surface instead of the ground and from not having a lake or pond to swim in. Cashew and Macadamia recovered from their neglect and found a home with Cassie Reeves, a California animal enthusiast. have been Easter gifts. Ritz Quackers was rescued near Duck Creek just as it was about to freeze over. And Vanilla, a little call duck, was plucked from traffic in St. George. Since many people arent prepared to care for ducks, St. Joan suggests a toy animal as an Easter treat - or, better yet, a tour of Feathered Friends. To arrange Last month Reeves welcomed a visit, call St. Joan at 1, 0 the feathered pair onto her Au ext. 211. 644-20- Jr I :tp. s t Snacks and Refreshments Served RSVP to Anne or Cyrus 644-507- burn property, teeming with chickens, enms, pygmy goats and rabbits. - 0 fjr v j Tf tv''... 9 - yj Ducks do not make good Easter gifts. Give stuffed animals instead. w |