Spring 2025 Glen Cove Community Meeting
Category Archives: Activism
New Foster Jonah!
New foster Jonah from HSNB is available for adoption. This very sweet and adorable wired-hair terrier mix adult has been with us for a few days and is a joy to have around. He plays with our other two fosters, the litter mates Calvin and Hobbes, as well as Snoopy. He’s growing on Bonnie as well, and I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before he wins her over.
Video compilation of Jonah’s first days while we foster him and his interactions with Bonnie and Snoopy and the other two fosters, Calvin and Hobbes.
PeeWee got Adopted!
We had handsome doxie mix PeeWee with us for about two weeks to “rehab” him and let him enjoy being in a home. I’m so proud that another foster dog that I could have easily fallen in love with did so well at his meet and greet today. He will be spoiled by his new family who he immediately took to. A sweet couple in Sonoma came to Vallejo to meet another dog, but their meet and greet didn’t go so well. Out of an abundance of caution, the adoption coordinator suggested I bring PeeWee and it was an instant connection.
Honored to be Recognized by Alameda County Tobacco Control Coalition
In a gorgeous building in San Leandro I was honored to join in person today after 2.5 hours sleep because of a work even last night. The annual award meeting of this coalition took place and I wanted to be there in person knowing I was one of the honorees. I’m proud to work in Alameda County, even though I haven’t been a resident for five years. It’s so important that we work on coalition building throughout the Bay Area, California, the rest of the USA and the world to fight Big Tobacco who still gets away with selling POISON.
Here is the video of my acceptance that Shea captured. Unfortunately, the dais is off-camera in this video, but you can hear me talk about some of the many ties my family has had to Alameda County since I was a young child.
Lazy Sunday at Rental
Calvin going for a ride around more than once on the top of the garden chair and over my shoulder.
This video starts with foster Calvin and blind Bonnie on the hill and ends up with new foster PeeWee on my lap. He is settling in well as he just needed a break from being crated at the shelter. What a beautiful doxie mix he is! Available for adoption right now at HSNB!
Vice Chair of United Dems of Southern Solano
I have the honor of succeeding our Vallejo mayor Andrea Sorce as a Vice-Chair for United Dems of Southern Solano as of our meeting this past week. Hopefully I can help to make a difference in this way with this local Democratic club. Understandably she’s a little busy with her mayoral duties, so I’m glad that I can step in. She, like so many others, were there for me when the horrible house fire happened last year. She was also on the curb of my house with Slater as it was still aflame to hug me while I awaited the fate of my dogs. I think most of you know, many did not survive. The mattress Shea and I sleep on every night, my home office desk and some of the shelves I have were donated from these great friends and neighbors. I knew she’d be a great mayor when she called me a few years ago and asked what I thought of the idea of her running. Here’s to a brighter future locally even if the chaos is still unfolding in DC for now.
PeeWee Visits for a Spell
“Auntie Mei! Thank you for paying for me to be groomed out of your own pocket before taking me to my new foster daddies Shea and Joe! They say I smell like a rose!” – Foster dachshund PeeWee in Vallejo is available at Humane Society of the North Bay. He came in with another dog from a family that could no longer take care of them and the other dog has already been adopted.
PeeWee getting to know the backyard:
Visiting Perrito in Twin Peaks
It was wonderful to see Perrito (Perry) fka Miso thriving in his new home after Shea and I dropped off three senior fosters at Muttville In San Francisco today, which was bittersweet. The house of fosters is a hell of a lot quieter now. Our former foster Perry, who we had earlier this year, is living it up in Twin Peaks. My camera phone really sucked, but part of it was because Perry was so excited to see us after initially barking to protect his new dominion.
Last video with Three Muttville Fosters
Kitty Tea and Me
Shea and I were so glad to participate in an Afternoon High Tea for the Humane Society of the North Bay at the Vallejo Museum in support of cats and kittens at our shelter, which many know I’m on the board of. We were so busy that I barely had time to take any pictures, so I hope there are a lot more to come. It was sold out and a lot of fun.
